western Africa

Table of Contents

Introduction
Muslims in western Africa
The states of the Sudan
- The early kingdoms and empires of the western Sudan
- The wider influence of the Sudanic kingdoms
The beginnings of European activity
- The rise of the Atlantic slave trade
- Anglo-French competition
- The slave-trade era
- Pre-European slave trading
- The southward expansion of Oyo
The Islamic revolution in the western Sudan
- Dominance of Tuareg and Amazigh tribes
- The first Fulani jihad
- The jihad of Usman dan Fodio
- The jihad of ʾUmar Tal
The Guinea coastlands and the Europeans (1807–79)
- The abolition of slavery
- The British presence in Sierra Leone
- The British in the Niger delta
- The fall of the African kingdoms
Colonization
- Effect of local conditions
- French areas of interest
- British areas of interest
- Claims of territorial boundaries
- Problems of military control
- Initial difficulty of European administration
- Colonial rule
- French territories
- British territories
Decolonization and the regaining of independence
- The emergence of African leaders
- The formation of African independence movements

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