Dimensions
165 x 240 x 32mm
A brilliant survey of African history, now revised to include the events of the 1990s.
This masterpiece of scholarship and compression covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day. Drawing on more than forty years of teaching and research, Professor Oliver arranges the book thematically, beginning with the human colonisation of the different regions of Africa, the origins of food production, and the formation of African languages.
This new edition sees a number of revisions, including a new chapter on the 1990s, when the end of the Cold Ear left Africa free at last to try to solve its own problems.
