Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures

FOREWORD TO THE 1999 EDITION
FOREWORD TO THE 1973 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION
SECTION 1 THE BACKGROUND
	1 African Mathematics?
	2 Historical Background
SECTION 2 NUMBERS—WORDS, GESTURES, SIGNIFICANCE
	3 Construction of Numeration Systems
	4 How Africans Count
	5 Taboos and Mysticism
SECTION 3 NDMBERS IN DAILY LIFE
	6 The African Concept of Time
	7 Numbers and Money
	8 Those Familiar Weights and Measures!
	9 Record-Keeping: Sticks and Strings
SECTION 4 MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS
	10 Games to Grow On
	11 The Game Played by Kings and Cowherds—and Presidents, Too!
	12 Magic Squares
SECTION 5 PATTERN AND SHAPE
	13 Geometric Form in Architecture
	14 Part I: Geometric Form and Pattern in Art
	15 Part II: Geometric Symmetries in African Art, By D. W. Crowe, with Original Drawings
SECTION 6 REGIONAL STUDY: SOUTHWEST NIGERIA
	15 History of the Yoruba States and Benin
	16 Systems of Numeration
	17 Significant Numbers
	18 Time-Reckoning
	19 Markets and Currency
SECTION 7 REGIONAL STUDY: EAST AFRICA
	20 History of East Africa
	21 Spoken and Gesture Counting
	22 Number Superstitions
	23 East African Time
	24 Wealth Means Cattle—and Other Livestock
SECTION 8 PAST AND FUTURE
	25 Pure Mathematics In Africa
	26 Update: Twenty-Five Years Later
APPENDIX
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
	CHAPTER REFERENCES AND NOTES
	BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
		Marianne Schmidl
		D. W. Crowe
		Frank E. Chapman, Jr.
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	INDEX