Introduction -- Africa in the making of an IOW global economy -- Indian Ocean Africa in the first great upswing in the Indian Ocean World global economy, 300 BCE to 300 CE -- Economic instability, ca. 300 to 900 CE -- The second great boom in the IOW global economy ca. 850 to 1250 and its impact...

"Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly equate globalization with Westernization and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. While such a conception flatters the Western ego, this book challenges it via more inclusive thinking. It reveals the multicultural...