Search Results for: Precolonial African Material Culture

The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popu

"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only su

This book explores the importance of objects in Swahili society. The archaeology of the east coast of Africa has provided a wealth of information on the complex

In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts

Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed