African Art电子书

Preface

Origins and Prehistory

Aim and Object of This Book

Origin of the Negro Peoples of Africa

Hypothetical Lemuria

Oceanic Migrations

Autochthonous Africans

Peopling of Africa

The Negroes of Africa at the Time of Herodotus

Development of Negro Civilisations in Antiquity

Paucity of Historical Documentation

“Aggry Beads”

Phoenician and Carthaginian Influence

Abyssinian Semites and the Beni-Israel

Romans and Berbers

Negro Africa in the Middle Ages

The Empire of Ghana

The Almoravide Movement

The Kingdom of Diara

The Kingdom of Soso

The Beginnings of the Songhoy Empire

The Mandinka Empire

The Mossi Empires

West Africa from the 15 Century to Today

More Abundant Documentation

The Mandinka and Songhoy Empires

The Askia Mohammed

Koli-Tengella

The Last Askias

The Pashas of Timbuktu

The Bambara Kingdoms

The Tukulor Conquest

The Wanderings of Samori

The Peoples of the West Coast

The Peoples of the Bend of the Niger

The Negroes of Central and Eastern Sudan

The Hausa Countries

The Empire of Bornu

The Bagirmi

The Kingdom of Wadai

Darfur and Kurdufan

Rabah's Adventure

Mahdism

Populations in the Neighbourhood of Abyssinia and Those of the Eastern Point of Africa

South Africa

The Bantu

The Congo

The Ansika

The Mataman

The Bechuana

The Monomotapa

Kilwa and the Zanzibar Sultanates

The Kingdoms of the Interior

European and Christian Influence

Material Civilisations

Diversity of Material Civilisations

Influence of Physical Environment

Habitations

Furniture and Utensils

Clothing and Decoration

Skilled Occupations

Social Customs

The Family and the Two Systems of Relationship

The Patriarch

Marriage

Divorce

Orphans

Polygamy

Individual and Collective Property

Slavery

Religious Beliefs and Practices

Islam, Christianity, and Animism

Individual Spirits of People and Things

Vital Breath

Priests

Belief in a Supreme God

Magic and Magicians

Artistic and Intellectual Expression

Negro Talents

Human Figures and Gods

Animal Representations

lndustrial Arts

Architecture

Music

Native Literature in Arabic

Written Literature in Native Tongue

“Griots”or Living Encyclopaedias

Popular Oral Literature

Origin of Popular Themes

Genius for Story-Telling

Moral Tales

Refuting the so-called Intellectual Inferiority of the Negroes

Appendix

Selective Bibliography

Index by Ethnicity