- What four central themes does the history of southern and eastern Africa share with western Africa?
- How does their history differ and why? (record, values, environment, interactions)
- What role does pastoralism play in the east and south? How does it affect settlement, society, and culture?
- fissiparation? (p. 103)
- What complex changes took place in what is now Zimbabwe? (p. 103f)
- Describe Great Zimbabwe. (pp. 104f. and 121f.)
- How did the kingdom of Munhumutapa interact with the Portuguese? (p. 105)
- Why were cattle less important in Central Africa?
- Describe Luba and the two major political systems it shaped.
- What could people do to keep their rulers in line?
- In the East African savanna, what were the Bantu up to, and where did the Maasai come from?
- What evidence is there for the region being stateless? (p. 109)
- How did cattle give their owners a demographic advantage? (pp. 109 and 118)
- In the Great Lakes region of East Africa states like Bunyoro and Buganda developed later. How did those states operate, and how did they reduce succession problems?
- How does the author say the distinction between Tutsi and Hutu may have evolved? (p. 111)
- What new crops were adopted in eastern and southern Africa, and where did they come from?
- "Human mobility was the essence of this empty world" -- list reasons people might move. (p. 114)
- What precautions were taken against the risk of famine, and what increased mortality in famine years? Who rarely suffered famine? (p. 116)
- What does the Zulu proverb, "the feud is in the testicle," mean? (p. 118)
- Did southern African women have a lower or higher status than western African women? Why? What about the women of Central Africa? (p. 119)
- Why did patriarchal, cattle-owning societies have severe generational tension, and how did they handle it? (p. 120)
- Was slavery more or less common in eastern and southern Africa than in West Africa? (p. 120)
- Why was trade more limited in southern and eastern African than in West Africa? (p. 122)
- How did San and Khoikhoi religion differ from Bantu religion? (pp. 124f.)
Reading Questions for AFRICANS, pp. 126-130:
- When did the first Dutch colonists land in what is now South Africa?
- Who was living at the Cape of Good Hope when the Dutch arrived?
- How did indigenous peoples make their livings and how did they interact?
- What were the Dutch East India Company's plans for the Cape initially?
- Why did the Dutch import slaves and from where?
- What were conditions for slaves in the Dutch colony?
- What was "the Dutch regime's lasting legacy to South Africa"?
- Who were the Trekboers? Why did they think of themselves as Afrikaners?
- When did the British take control of the Cape from the Dutch?
Reading Questions for SHORT, Chapter 3:
- What were the two battles that pioneers of African historical studies had to fight? (p. 49)
- What passed for African history before 1950 and what were its flaws? (p. 50)
- What were some early indigenous written records? (pp. 51f.)
- What role did the Bible play in increasing indigenous written records? (p. 53)
- How about colonial rule? Why? (p. 56)
- Define "oral tradition." (p. 57)
- What historical information can and cannot be gotten out of oral traditions? (pp. 58ff.)
- Name five other disciplines that historians have mined for the African past and explain their advantages and limitations. (pp. 60ff.)
- What are the three types of written records by outsiders are being reevaluated? (p. 67ff.)
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