Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present (African World Histories) - Softcover

Catherine Cymone Fourshey is Associate Professor and holds the John D. MacArthur Chair in History and International Relations at Bucknell University.

Rhonda M. Gonzales is Professor of History at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Christine Saidi is Professor of History at Kutztown University.

"This concise and comprehensive introduction to the history of Bantu Africa breaks new ground in several ways. It is a brief but rich history of a region as large as the United States, extending across several thousand years. It provides detailed and valuable information on African societies, addressing several areas of their culture in a coherent narrative. In addition to the book's strength in portraying space, time, and society, it also conveys in useful and understandable fashion the methods used to reconstruct Bantu history, including linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, and other fields."--from the Foreword by Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh

"A path-breaking volume in scope and accessibility, Bantu Africa follows one of the largest and most important migrations in human history, skillfully narrating how Bantu-speaking peoples came to inhabit most of sub-Saharan Africa over the course of more than four thousand years. By deftly weaving together different types of historical evidence, the book recreates not only a history but also an entire worldview, allowing a general audience to understand the past from the Bantu point of view. This compelling volume explains how to reconstruct the past using linguistics, archeology, anthropology, and genetics in an understandable way that will make it an invaluable guidebook on historical methodology for students of African and world history alike."--Christina Mobley, University of Virginia