Ecology and Ethnography of Muslim Trade in West Africa

By Paul E. Lovejoy

A collection of key essays written by Paul Lovejoy on the economic and social history of West Africa. Lovejoy's work explores the organisation of trade and production in the interior of West Africa, specifically in the regions of modern Nigeria, Niger, Benin and Ghana in the precolonial era before circa 1900, when Muslim merchants and entrepeneurs dominated economy and society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592214266
• ISBN13: 9781592214266
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Africa World Press, Inc.
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.8"