Africa: A modern history 1800 - 1975
Date
1978
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New York,(30 Irving Place, N.Y. 10003): Africana Publishing Company A division ofHolmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.
Abstract
A survey; Peoples of North Africa; West African societies: peoples of the savannah; West African societies: peoples of the coast and forests; Peoples of South and central Africa; Peoples of East Africa; Africa and Europe; The establishment of alien rule in North Africa; The establishment of alien rule in West Africa; The establishment of alien rule in East Africa; The spread of alien rule in South Africa;The establishment of alien rule in Central Africa; Colonialism, nationalism and pan-Africanism; The re-emergence ofself-government in North Africa; The re-emergence of self-government in West Africa; The re-emergence of self-government in East Africa; The continuing struggle in South and Central Africa;
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The word ‘African’ has a very limited value. It may apply to someone who speaks any one of the hundreds of languages and dialects spoken on the continent. He may be a devout Muslim from Marrakesh; a Coptic Christian from Ethiopia; a pygmy hunter-gatherer from the Congo forest; a Maasai herdsman with a contempt for modern city life; a sophisticated, Western-educated businessman from Lagos. He may live on the plains, in the forest, by the sea or in the desert. His staple diet may be meat or fish or maize or cassava. He may live .at sea-level or at 2,000 metres. Africa is a diverse continent and its people are equally diverse. For this reason it is no easy matter to write a briefhistory of the whole continent. In this book we have had to select in each region those peoples and events that we think we should write about. Inevitably, there is much that we should have liked to say but could not for lack of space. We state this at the beginning so that students will realize that the following pages only contain a selection from the history of Africa since 1800. There is much more for the reader who is interested in the history ofthe continent to study and discover.