THOUGHTS ON THE WESTERN SAVANNAH AND SAHEL

A recent revival of interest in the empires of the medieval western Savannah and Sahel has generated new insights into slavery, ethnicity, race, and gender in precolonial West Africa. New histories of medieval West Africa also expand the spatial frame through which the relationship between the regio...

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Published inJournal of African history Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 319 - 326
Main Author Gomez, Michael A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.11.2020
Subjects
African history
Colonialism
Ethnicity
FORUM: The Imperial Tradition in the Sahel
Gender
Medieval history
Postcolonialism
Precolonial history
Race
Slavery
North Africa
Sahel (African region)
Indian Ocean
West Africa
East Africa
Africa
slavery
North Africa
historiography
Mali
precolonial
West Africa
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Summary:A recent revival of interest in the empires of the medieval western Savannah and Sahel has generated new insights into slavery, ethnicity, race, and gender in precolonial West Africa. New histories of medieval West Africa also expand the spatial frame through which the relationship between the region's polities and the broader world can be understood. This essay offers a survey of that literature.
ISSN:0021-8537
1469-5138
DOI:10.1017/S0021853720000572