John Parker taught the History of Africa at SOAS University of London from 1998 to 2020. He is the co-author of African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007), co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (2013), and the author of In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa (2021).

'With contributions from an array of leading historians, this is a vital work that corrects the tendency to define Africa’s past by European colonisation ' - The Irish Times

• Introduction: Kings, Kingship and Kingdoms in African History, John Parker • 1. Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Kings of Floods and Kings of Rain, David Wengrow • 2. The Sudanic Empires: The Gold, the Arts, the River, Rahmane Idrissa • 3. The Solomonic Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, Habtamu Tegegne and Wendy Laura Belcher • 4. The Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms, Olatunji Ojo • 5. The Kongo Kingdom, Cécile Fromont • 6. Buganda, John Parker • 7. From Hausa Kingdoms to the Sokoto Caliphate, Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe • 8. The Akan Forest Kingdom of Asante, John Parker • 9. The Zulu Kingdom, Wayne Dooling

John Parker taught the History of Africa at SOAS University of London from 1998 to 2020. He is the co-author of African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007), co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (2013), and the author of In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa (2021).

'With contributions from an array of leading historians, this is a vital work that corrects the tendency to define Africa’s past by European colonisation ' - The Irish Times

• Introduction: Kings, Kingship and Kingdoms in African History, John Parker • 1. Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Kings of Floods and Kings of Rain, David Wengrow • 2. The Sudanic Empires: The Gold, the Arts, the River, Rahmane Idrissa • 3. The Solomonic Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, Habtamu Tegegne and Wendy Laura Belcher • 4. The Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms, Olatunji Ojo • 5. The Kongo Kingdom, Cécile Fromont • 6. Buganda, John Parker • 7. From Hausa Kingdoms to the Sokoto Caliphate, Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe • 8. The Akan Forest Kingdom of Asante, John Parker • 9. The Zulu Kingdom, Wayne Dooling

John Parker taught the History of Africa at SOAS University of London from 1998 to 2020. He is the co-author of African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007), co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (2013), and the author of In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa (2021).

'With contributions from an array of leading historians, this is a vital work that corrects the tendency to define Africa’s past by European colonisation ' - The Irish Times

• Introduction: Kings, Kingship and Kingdoms in African History, John Parker • 1. Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Kings of Floods and Kings of Rain, David Wengrow • 2. The Sudanic Empires: The Gold, the Arts, the River, Rahmane Idrissa • 3. The Solomonic Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, Habtamu Tegegne and Wendy Laura Belcher • 4. The Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms, Olatunji Ojo • 5. The Kongo Kingdom, Cécile Fromont • 6. Buganda, John Parker • 7. From Hausa Kingdoms to the Sokoto Caliphate, Muhammadu Mustapha Gwadabe • 8. The Akan Forest Kingdom of Asante, John Parker • 9. The Zulu Kingdom, Wayne Dooling