## Volume IX-XI General Introduction:  
Augustin F. C. HOLL (Ph.D. 1983, Paris-1: Pantheon-Sorbonne, Habilitation 1994, Paris X-Nanterre), now Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Africa Research Center at Xiamen University, (Fujian, P.R. China), Chairman of the International Scientific Committee for UNESCO General History of Africa Volume IX-XII. He was Professor at the University of California, San Diego, Curator of African Archaeology, Professor of Anthropology and Afro-American and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA), Professor and Vice-President for International Relations at Paris-Nanterre University (France), and Deputy-Director at the Institute of Humanities and Social Science (CNRS, Paris, France).