Writing African History

TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates.

• Introduction - Daniel McCallWhat is African History? - John Edward PhilipsArchaeology and the Reconstruction of the African Past - Susan Keech McIntoshWriting African History from Linguistic Evidence - Christopher EhretPhysical Anthropology and African History - Shomarka Keita MDThe Importance of Botanical Data to Historical Research on Africa - Dorothea BedigianOral Tradition as a Means of Reconstructing the Past - David HenigeOral Sources and the Challenge of African History - Barbara CooperArabic Sources for African History - John O. HunwickEuropean Documents and African History - John K. ThorntonMission and Colonial Documents - Toyin FalolaData Collection and Interpretation in the Social History of Africa - Isaac Olawale AlbertAfrican Economic History: Approaches to Research - Masao YoshidaSigns of Time, Shapes of Thought: The Contributions of Art History and Visual Culture to Historical Methods in Africa - Henry John DrewalMethodologies in Yorùbá Oral Historiography and Aesthetics - Deidre L. Badejo Ph.D.Local History in Post-Independent Africa - Bala AchiAfrica and World-Systems Analysis: A Post-Nationalist Project? - William G. Martin"What Africa Has Given America": African Continuities in the North American Diaspora - Joseph E. HollowayHistory and Memory - Donatien DIBWE dia MwembuWriting About Women: Approaches to a Gendered Perspective in African History - Kathleen SheldonWriting African History - John Edward Philips

Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.