African Art by Delafosse, Maurice -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

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 15th 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

Old Primary and Secondary Sources Contemporary Texts of the Publication

Index by ethnicity Notes