Abstract This article has two main goals. First, it considers the precolonial ties of Rwanda (one of the best-known of the precolonial African kingdoms) with areas in the equatorial forest of the Zaire River Basin (some of the least- known areas, in terms of precolonial history). On the basis of recent research in the area of Lake Kivu (in Central Africa), it is clear that trade contacts between these two areas were much more intensive and dynamic than previously realized ; the article describes these trade networks and their evolution over the course of the nineteenth century. Secondly, the article addresses four issues current in African History : the relation of trade to markets, the relation of trade to centers of political power, the e...
The primary intent of this research is to analyze and document the progression of European influence...
The long-distance trade routes would have played a significant role in the socio-political history o...
From the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and has...
Commercial relations between Rwanda and the outside world at the end of the pre-colonial period were...
Commercial Activities in Southern Kivu during the XIXth century, with Kinyaga, Rwanda, taken as an e...
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none1noThe role of the Nyamwezi traders in nineteenth-century East African trade is still a matter o...
In the second quarter of the 19th century, Zanzibari traders, of Arab or Swahili stock, made their w...
This article on literary and theatrical circulations in Africa’s Great Lakes region begins by retrac...
The aim of this article is to trace the history of Ambriz between the 1840s and 1870s in order to il...
Long-distance and regional trade routes have played a major role in the sociopolitical history of Ce...
This paper explores the dynamic between local, regional, and global forces for the Comoro Islands be...
Throughout Africa, contemporary boundaries are deemed ‘artificial’ because they were external imposi...
The depredations caused by Portuguese slaving in Northern Zimbabwe and the Middle Zambezi valley rem...
International audienceThis paper analyzes long distance economic relations between Africa and Asia t...
The primary intent of this research is to analyze and document the progression of European influence...
The long-distance trade routes would have played a significant role in the socio-political history o...
From the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and has...
Commercial relations between Rwanda and the outside world at the end of the pre-colonial period were...
Commercial Activities in Southern Kivu during the XIXth century, with Kinyaga, Rwanda, taken as an e...
International audienceThis article on literary and theatrical circulations in Africa's Great Lakes r...
none1noThe role of the Nyamwezi traders in nineteenth-century East African trade is still a matter o...
In the second quarter of the 19th century, Zanzibari traders, of Arab or Swahili stock, made their w...
This article on literary and theatrical circulations in Africa’s Great Lakes region begins by retrac...
The aim of this article is to trace the history of Ambriz between the 1840s and 1870s in order to il...
Long-distance and regional trade routes have played a major role in the sociopolitical history of Ce...
This paper explores the dynamic between local, regional, and global forces for the Comoro Islands be...
Throughout Africa, contemporary boundaries are deemed ‘artificial’ because they were external imposi...
The depredations caused by Portuguese slaving in Northern Zimbabwe and the Middle Zambezi valley rem...
International audienceThis paper analyzes long distance economic relations between Africa and Asia t...
The primary intent of this research is to analyze and document the progression of European influence...
The long-distance trade routes would have played a significant role in the socio-political history o...
From the second millennium BC, East Africa has been connected with oceanic exchange networks and has...