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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour

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by Martin Meredith

Hewett, Edward 221, 392, 407, 409, 410

  Hicks, William 334

  hieroglyphic writing xx, xxi–xxii

  Hinde, Captain Sidney 450

  Hippo Regius 55, 56

  Hispaniola 116, 117

  HIV/Aids 646

  Hlubi 239

  Hodgson, Sir Frederick 423–4

  Hofmeyr, Jan 355

  Hoornkrans 482

  Horn of Africa 45, 320, 505

  horses 78, 96, 98, 159, 681

  Horus 4, 39

  Hottentot Proclamation 231

  Hottentots see Khoikhoi

  Houghton, Major Daniel 187, 188

  Houphouët-Boigny, Félix 566, 567, 595, 596, 624, 637

  Hueda 125–6

  Huggins, Sir Godfrey 557

  human sacrifice 73, 126, 219, 297, 414, 419

  hunter-gatherers 20–1, 22, 23

  Hutu 290, 519, 577–9, 639, 640, 641

  Hyksos 9–10

  Ibadi merchants 71

  Ibibio 126, 554

  Ibn Battuta 77–8, 83

  Ibn Ibrahim, Ahmad (Gragn) 114, 115

  Ibn Khaldun 69, 86, 146–7

  Ibn Majid, Ahmad 110

  Ibn Tumert, Mohamed 74

  Ibn Yasin, Abdullah 74

  Ibsen, Henrik 309

  Idris Alawma 159

  Idris ibn Abdullah 67

  Ifriqiya xiii, 65, 68, 69, 75

  Igbo 20, 126, 409, 414, 492, 519, 553, 605, 606

  Igbobi 219

  Ijo 218

  Ila 466

  Ilg, Alfred 428

  Ilorin 166

  Imhotep 5

  Imperial British East Africa Company 400, 401

  incense 45

  industrialisation 205, 545, 595, 603, 617–18

  infant mortality 594, 611

  Inkatha 635

  International Monetary Fund 622

  Inyati 261

  Ipetsut (Karnak) 12

  ironworking 22, 25, 30, 43–4

  Isandlwana 361, 362

  Islam

  dar al-Islam 161, 169, 649

  ‘five pillars’ 63–4

  jihad 114, 161–9, 209, 211, 333, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 654, 664, 665, 698

  Kharijites 67, 681

  observance of local customs 161–2

  religious tolerance 64, 68

  resurgence 647–9, 650–7, 659–65

  Sanusiyya 439–40, 441–2, 538

  sharia law 649, 653, 656, 657, 659, 664

  Shi’ism 67, 68, 680–1

  slavery, sanction of 78, 162, 166

  spread of 61–2, 75–6, 82, 85–6, 86, 154, 170, 493–4

  Sufism 74, 162, 165, 168, 439

  Sunni 67

  Tijaniyya brotherhood 168

  torodbe 162–4, 168

  Ulema movement 533–4

  Ismail, Moulay 157–8

  Ismail Pasha 309, 310, 312, 313–14, 315, 317, 318, 320, 321–2, 331

  Ismailia 541

  Israel 542, 545, 546, 620, 649–50

  Istanbul 147, 148, 150

  Italy

  colonialism 306, 391, 427–31, 432, 434, 442, 495, 505, 538–9, 539

  invasion of Abyssinia 503–6

  Second World War 506, 521, 540

  Itsekiri 410

  ivory xxi, 43, 45, 97, 99, 116, 252, 259–60, 269, 270, 271, 273, 275, 278, 279, 286, 288–9, 315, 316–17, 447, 448, 689–90, 695–6

  Chinese trade 667

  European demand for xiv, 260–1

  Indian demand for 270

  Ivory Coast see Côte d’Ivoire

  al-Jabarti 200, 201

  Jaghbub 439

  Jaja, king of Opobo 408–10

  Jakin 125

  James, William 126–7

  Jameson, Dr Starr 470–1, 475

  Jameson Raid 475

  Janssens, General Emile 574

  Jardine, Douglas 432–3

  Jawara 66

  Jebel Bakal 30

  Jebel Qadir 332

  Jenne-jeno 22, 70–1, 154, 156, 168

  Jewish communities 33, 41, 50

  jihad 114, 161–9, 209, 211, 333, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 654, 664, 665, 698

  al-Jilani, Abd-al-Qadir 165

  Jimmy, King, Temne sub-chief 185

  Jobson, Richard 188

  Johannesburg 459–61, 477, 509, 580

  John of Ephesus 60

  Johnson, Frank 467

  Johnston, Harry 409–10

  Jola 417

  Jolof 163

  Joubert, Gideon 244

  Juba River 321

  Jubaland 495

  Judar Pasha 155, 156

  Julian, Egyptian monk 60–1

  Justinian, Emperor 57

  Kaarta 168

  Kabareka, king of Bunyoro 319, 403

  Kabila, Laurent 641

  Kabylia 213

  Kagame, Paul 640, 641

  al-Kahina, Berber queen 66

  Kairouan 65, 67–8, 69

  Kamba 404

  Kamerun see Cameroon

  Kanem 71, 78

  al-Kanemi, Muhammad 194, 195

  Kankan 416

  Kano 164, 165, 167, 195, 415, 492

  Karagwe 273, 290

  Karamajong 403

  Karoo 134, 341

  Karume, Abeid 602, 603

  Kasa-Vubu, Joseph 572, 573, 576, 577

  Kasanje 125

  Kasongo 286, 450

  Katanga xvi, 273, 395, 448–9, 465, 492, 493, 572, 573, 575, 576, 577

  Katsina 164, 165

  Kaunda, Kenneth 637

  Kazeh (Tabora) 273, 275, 276, 278, 280

  Kazembe 125

  Kebra Negast 86–7

  Kei River 255

  Keiskamma River 228

  Keita, Modibo 595

  Kenya 405, 493, 495, 529–30, 539, 558–61, 562–3, 603, 619, 654

  corruption 673

  elite self-enrichment 599–600

  independence 562

  Mau Mau revolt 558–61

  ‘multiracial’ strategy 556, 561

  nationalism 559

  oilfelds 668

  Kenyatta, Jomo 558, 559, 560, 563, 599

  Kerma 10

  Khafra, pharaoh 6

  Kharijites 67, 681

  Khartoum 276, 315–16, 317, 322, 332, 334, 335, 336–7, 520, 654, 655

  Khasekhemy, king of Egypt 5

  Khoikhoi 23, 129, 130–1, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 228, 231–2, 356, 679

  Khoikhoi Cape Regiment 229

  Khoisan language 679

  Khufu, pharaoh 5

  Khumalo 240

  Kibaki, Mwai 673

  Kidal 665

  Kigali 640

  Kikuyu 404, 558–9, 560

  Kilimanjaro 274, 398

  Kilwa 83, 110, 271

  Kilwa Kisiwani 83

  Kimberley 344–5, 346, 348, 371–3, 377–8

  Kimberley ‘Big Hole’ 342

  Kinjikitile Ngwale 486–7

  Kinshasa (Leopoldville) 386, 610, 641, 675

  Kipling, Rudyard 479

  Kirk, John 281

  Kismayu 321

  Kisumu 404, 405

  KiSwahili 82

  Kitchener, General Herbert 435, 436, 437

  Kivu 640

  Klaarwater 243

  Kofi Kakari 421

  Kok, Adam 250

  Koko, Nembe king 414

  kola nuts 20, 75, 154, 164

  Kolobeng 262, 263

  Kongo 99–105, 125, 388, 572

  Kora 356

  Koran 63, 64, 163

  Kordofan 204, 316, 322, 331, 332, 333, 334

  Kosoko, king of Lagos 218

  Koumbi Saleh 72–3

  Krapf, Ludwig 274

  Kruger, Paul 352–3, 364–5, 366, 367, 368, 369, 376, 377, 461, 462, 463, 473–4, 475, 476–7, 478, 515

  Kubai, Fred 559

  Kukawa 194

  Kumasi 128, 418, 419–21, 422, 423, 492

  Kurgus 10

  Kuruman 261

  Kush 9, 10–11, 30, 43–4r />
  Kwa Igbo 409

  Kwaku Dua 420

  Kwena 261

  labour

  forced 249, 260, 452–3, 454, 476, 485–6, 492, 531

  slave see slavery

  Lagarde, Léonce 435

  Lagos 125, 218–19, 220, 391, 412, 414, 494, 523, 553, 675

  Laing, Gordon 195–6

  Laird, Macgregor 215, 216, 219

  Lake Albert 318

  Lake Chad 195

  Lake Nyasa 277, 278, 279

  Lake Tanganyika 273, 277, 279, 283, 284, 287, 492

  Lake Turkana 431

  Lalibela 86

  Lamizana, Colonel Sangoulé 601–2

  Lampson, Sir Miles 540

  Lamu 82, 278

  Land Apportionment Act 1931, Rhodesia 529

  Lander, John 197

  Lander, Richard 197, 215–16

  landholdings, foreign xvi, xvii 40–1

  Landye, John 116

  Lango 403

  Larache 26, 153

  Lavigerie, Charles 295–6

  League of Nations 504

  leather goods 167

  Lebna Dengel 113–14

  Leo Africanus 154–5, 159, 187

  Leopold II of Belgium xiv–xv, 383–4, 386, 387, 388–9, 393, 394–5, 404, 407, 447, 448, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 456

  see also Congo Free State

  Leopoldville 386, 523, 571, 572, 573, 575

  leprosy 520

  Lepsius, Richard 309

  Lesotho 562

  see also Basutoland

  Lesseps, Ferdinand de 311

  Lettow-Vorbeck, General Paul von 494, 495

  Leutwein, Theodor von 483

  Levant 8, 9, 11, 17, 206, 441

  Liberia 97, 194, 527, 642

  civil war 642, 643

  Libya 17, 26, 30, 442, 538, 654, 663–4, 678

  Arab Spring 658–9

  colonialism 30

  Gaddafi dictatorship 614, 664

  independence 538

  oilfields 613–14, 620

  life expectancy 594, 669

  Lij Yasu, emperor-designate of Abyssinia 501

  Limpopo Valley 22, 84, 240, 245, 261, 470

  liquor distilleries 368, 408

  literacy rates 594, 611

  Livingstone, David 261–5, 277, 278–81, 285–6, 289

  Livingstone, Mary 261, 265

  Lixus (Larache) 26, 153

  Loango 193, 395

  Lobengula, Ndebele king 466, 467, 468, 469, 471

  locusts 113, 594

  Lok, John 116

  Lokoja 414

  London agreement, Rhodesia (1979) 628–9

  London Missionary Society (LMS) 231–2, 243, 261

  Longinus, Bishop 61

  Lourdel, Siméon 296, 399, 401

  Lourenço Marques 460

  Lozi 466

  Lualaba River 283, 285

  Luanda 119, 124, 263, 589, 626, 627, 672

  Luango 387

  Lüderitz, Adolf 391, 392

  Ludolf, Job 686

  Lugard, Frederick 401–2, 405–6, 413, 414–15, 492

  Lukuga River 284

  Lulua 573

  Lumumba, Patrice 536–7, 571, 572, 573, 574–6, 577

  Luo 404

  Luta Nzigé 318

  Luxor 12

  Lyautey, Marshal 492

  Maasai 404, 405, 558

  Maasailand 399, 401

  Mabotsa 261

  Macaulay, Zachary 186–7

  Machel, Samora 626, 628

  Mackay, Alexander 295, 296–7, 399, 400

  Mackenzie, Charles 264, 265

  McKillop, Captain H.F. 321

  Mackinnon, William 400, 401, 467

  Maclean, Charles 241

  Macmillan, Harold 562, 563

  Madi 403

  Mafela 387

  Mafia 398

  Magdala 302, 303, 304–5

  Maghreb, Arab hegemony 66, 67–9, 74–5

  Mago, Carthaginian writer 25

  Magomero 264

  al-Magrizi 147

  Mahdali clan 83

  Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abdallah) 331–4, 335, 336, 337, 436

  Mahdi (Ubaydalla Said) 68

  Mahdia 68, 69

  Mahdism 331–7, 428, 434, 435–6

  Maherero, Samuel 483, 484

  Maigoga 171

  Maitatsine 656

  maji-maji uprising 487

  Majuba 366

  Makaba II, Tswana king 239

  Makapanspoort 260

  Makelle 430

  makhzen system 153

  Makoko, Bateke king 385, 386

  Makoko Treaty (1880) 386, 388, 391

  Makuria 60, 61–2, 65

  malaguetta pepper 97

  Malan, Daniel 508, 509, 510, 514, 515, 516, 582

  malaria 215, 216, 217–18, 264–5, 275, 483, 520, 594, 688

  Malawi 473, 562, 598, 619, 637

  see also Nyasaland

  Malebo Pool 385, 386, 387, 395

  Mali 614, 618, 620, 664

  independence 568

  Islam in 664–5

  Mali empire xiv, 75, 76, 77–8, 154

  Malik Sy 163

  Malindi 83, 110

  Malka Christos 174–5

  Malzac, Alphonse de 316–17

  Mamluks 145–7, 148, 198

  Mandela, Nelson 583–4, 586–7, 631, 632, 634, 635, 674

  Mandingo 188

  Mandinka 416

  Manetho, historian 33

  Mangungu, Msovero chief 397

  Manicaland 473

  Mankurwane, Tlhaping chief 374–5

  Mansa Musa xiv, 76, 154, 161, 681

  al-Mansur, Ahmad 153, 155

  Manyema 273, 279, 284, 448

  maps, early 76, 179–80

  Mapungubwe 84

  Maqoma 254

  marabouts 74, 163

  Marchand, Captain Jean-Baptiste 435, 436, 437

  Marcian, Emperor 57

  Mark, apostle 50

  Marrakesh 74, 442

  Marxist–Leninism 614–16, 626, 630, 633

  Mascara 209, 210

  Mascarene Islands 272, 281

  Mashariki Bantu 22

  Mashonaland 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470–1, 476

  Masina 162, 167–8

  Masindi 319

  Massawa 170, 175, 301, 306, 320, 427, 538

  al-Masudi, Abdul Hasan Ali 81

  Matabele 240

  see also Ndebele

  Matabele Wars 471, 476

  Matabeleland 466, 467, 468, 469, 471–2, 474, 476, 629

  Matadi 395

  Matamba 125

  Mau Mau 558–61

  Mauch, Carl 465–6, 470

  Mauretania, Berber kingdom, Roman province 40, 54, 56

  Mauritania 74, 568, 620, 637

  independence 568

  Maxim guns 694

  M’ba, Léon 602

  Mbanza 101, 102

  Mbeki, Thabo 674

  Mbuyasi 255

  Medina 222

  Megiddo 11

  Mehmed II, sultan 147

  Meknes 158, 159

  Melilla 153, 442

  Memphis 3–4, 10, 34, 35

  Memphis, Decree of 36

  Mendes, Afonso 174, 175

  Menelik I, emperor of Abyssinia 87, 503

  Menelik II, emperor of Abyssinia 302, 306, 428, 429–30, 431, 435, 436, 501

  Mengistu Haile Mariam 608, 614–16, 621–2, 637

  Mengo 276, 401

  Menkaura, pharaoh 6

  Mentuhotep II, pharaoh 8

  Mentzel, Otto 135

  Meroe 43, 44

  Meroitic script 43

  Mersa Gawasis 11

  Metemma 428

  mfecane 237–41

  Mfwa 386

  Middle Niger 22, 70, 153, 154, 157, 162

  Mikael Sehul, Ras 178

  Milner, Sir Alfred 324, 476, 477, 496

  Minas, emperor of Abyssinia 171

  Mirambo 280, 284

  missionary activity 50, 2
57, 260–2, 466, 494

  Abyssinia 171–5, 301

  African Christians 216–17, 219, 493

  ‘Bible and Plough’ initiative 216

  Buganda 294–7, 399–400

  Cape Colony 231–2

  education and medical programmes 192–3, 493, 535

  Nubia 60–1

  Sierra Leone 192–3

  and the tribal identification system 519–20

  missionary societies

  Church Missionary Society 192, 216, 274, 295, 399

  London Missionary Society (LMS) 231–2, 243, 261

  Universities Mission to Central Africa 264–5

  Mlapa III 392

  mobile phone technology 668

  Mobutu, Joseph 574, 576, 577, 609–10, 640, 641

  Moffat, Robert 261

  Mogadishu 83, 432, 638

  Mogador (Essaouira) 153

  Mohammed V, sultan of Morocco 522, 564–5, 566

  Moi, Daniel arap 673

  el-Mokrani, Mohamed 213

  Molepolole 261

  Mombasa 83, 110, 274, 278, 321, 400, 404, 521

  monasticism 51–2, 59

  Monomotapa 111

  Monophysitism 57

  Monrovia 194, 642

  Montshiwa 375, 377

  Moore, Francis 122

  Morel, Edmund 454, 456

  Morice, Jean-Vincent 271

  Morocco 27, 66, 74, 75, 149, 152–3, 155, 156, 157–9, 442, 492, 495, 522, 614

  independence 566

  makhzen system 153

  nationalism 564–5

  Morsi, Mohamed 660, 661, 662, 663

  Mosega 244, 245

  Moshoeshoe, BaSotho king 239, 250, 257, 258, 354

  Mossel Bay 108, 134

  Mossi 78, 416

  Mostaganem 209

  ‘Mountains of the Moon’ 45, 273, 274

  Mozambique 109–10, 133, 269, 271, 473, 537, 538, 589, 627, 633

  independence 625–6

  Marxist-Leninist regime 626, 630, 633

  nationalism 625

  oilfelds 668

  Mpande, Zulu king 248, 357

  Mpangazitha, Hlubi king 239

  Mpinda 119

  Mpondo 242, 255

  Msabila 278

  Msiri, Nyamwezi trader 448–9, 465

  Msovero 397

  Mthethwa 237, 238

  Mubarak, Hosni 650, 651, 654, 658, 660

  Mugabe, Robert 589, 628, 629, 643, 644, 673–4

  Muhammad, Prophet 63, 64, 153, 332, 499

  Muhammad Ali Pasha 202, 203, 204–5, 206, 312, 315, 316, 325

  Muhammad Said Pasha 311

  Mujao 664

  multi-party democracy 596, 617, 624, 636

  Munhu Mutapa 85, 111

  Munzinger, Werner 320

  Murphy, J.B. 453–4

  Musa, Mansa xiv, 76, 154, 161, 681

  Muslim Brotherhood 499, 541, 597, 647–8, 649, 650–1, 660–1, 663, 697–8

  Mussolini, Benito 503, 504, 505, 506

  Mutesa I, king of Buganda 284, 292–3, 294, 295, 296, 297, 319

  Mutesa, Sir Edward 612

  Muzorewa, Bishop Abel 628

  Mwanga, king of Buganda 298, 399–400, 401, 402, 403

  Mwissikongo 101

  Myos Hormos 44

  Mytela Kasanda 278

  Mzilikazi 240, 244, 245, 246, 261, 466

  Nachtigal, Gustav 392

  Nairobi 405, 523, 558, 559, 675

  Nama 481, 482, 486

 

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