This book argues that Frican behaviour, often puzzling to outsiders, is shaped by ideas
which have historical roots stretching back for many centuries. It is therefore both a history …

Africans and Their History chronicles in fascinating detail African history from prehistoric
times through the end of the 20th century. Africa has witnessed the birth of many important …

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has
been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyond. The author illustrates important …

Africa was the last continent, the last major culture area to emerge into the light of historical
knowledge. The darkness of “darkestAfrica” for nineteenth-century Europeans was largely …

This Book Is Concerned With the story of Africa from antiquity to modern times, as told in the
chronicles and records of chiefs and kings, travellers and merchant-adventures, poets and …