On the Golden Rhinoceros
Fauvelle, François-Xavier. The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. pp. 280. eBook.
This is a great set of short chapters on Africa between ~700 and ~1500. It lacks cohesion, but part of me thinks that is the point—there was no single “Africa,” so it’s best to see the continent through different lenses. The text is very heavy on Saharan Africa, strong on sub-Saharan Africa, and generally weaker on Mediterranean Africa.