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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Note on Conventions
Introduction: Africa in the Middle Ages
1: The Tribulations of Two Chinese in Africa
2: In the Belly of the Sperm Whale
3: Aspects of a Border
4: Diplomatic Back-and-Forth at the Court of George II of Nubia
5: “Does anyone live beyond you?”
6: For Forty-Two Thousand Dinars
7: A Tale of Two Cities: On the Capital of Ghâna
8: Ghâna, One Hundred Years Later
9: The Conversion Effect
10: The King of Zâfûn Enters Marrakesh
11: The Rich Dead of the Tumuli
12: Aksum, the City That Made Kings
13: The Treasures of Debre Damo
14: One Map, Two Geographies
15: The Case of the Concubine
16: Sijilmâsa, Crossroads at the Ends of the Earth
Colour Images
17: The Land Where Gold Grows like Carrots
18: Phantom Mines
19: The Land of Sofala
20: The Golden Rhinoceros
21: The Stratigraphy of Kilwa, or How Cities Are Born
22: The Camels of Madagascar, or Marco Polo’s Africa
23: The Work of Angels
24: The Sultan and the Sea
25: Ruins of Salt
26: The Customs of Mâli
27: A Wreck in the Sahara
28: The Golden Orb
29: The King’s Speech
30: The Production of Eunuchs in Abyssinia
31: Inventory at Great Zimbabwe
32: Next Year in Tamentit, or the (Re)discovery of Africa
33: Africa’s New Shores
34: Vasco da Gama and the “New World”
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
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