An Economic History of Tropical Africa: The pre-colonial periodZbigniew A. Konczacki, Janina M. Konczacki These articles cover: early agricultural development; history of agricultural crops; patterns of land use and tenure; introduction and use of metals; economic and technological aspects of the Iron Age; patterns of trade; trade routes and centres; and media of exchange. |
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An Economic History of Tropical Africa: The pre-colonial period Zbigniew A. Konczacki,Janina M. Konczacki No preview available - 1977 |
An Economic History of Tropical Africa: The pre-colonial period Zbigniew A. Konczacki,Janina M. Konczacki No preview available - 1977 |
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ackies agriculture amolé Angola Arab archaeological Ashanti Atlantic slave trade Bamenda Grassfields banana Bantu Barbot beads Benin caravans Central Africa centre century A.D. chief chiefdoms cloth coastal Cokwe commodities Congo copper cowrie crops cultivation culture currency Dahomey demand early East African coast eastern economic eighteenth century Ethiopia Ethnographic Survey European evidence exchange export Frank Cass Ghana Gold Coast groups Guinea Hausa important Indian Ingombe Ilede interior Iron Age island Kasai Katanga kiln Kilwa king kingdom Kongo Lake land later London long-distance trade Lunda maize manillas merchants Mombasa Mozambique Niger nineteenth century Northern Ghana Northern Rhodesia organisation origin Ounce Ovimbundu plants plateau political population Portuguese pottery probably referred region Reprinted River Sahara salt settlement sixteenth century slave trade society Southern Sudan Survey of Africa trade routes traditional markets tribes tusks Uganda village West Africa western yams Zambezi Zambia Zanzibar