Title: A Short History of Africa (6th Ed.)
Author: Roland Anthony Oliver & J. D. Fage
Publisher: Penguin
Year:1990
336 pages
Audiobook.
A useful overview, especially until around the end of the 1800s, but the tone and focus are sometimes shockingly mushy and bland when describing events that were, by all other accounts, quite horrific. Do read with King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and The Challenge for Africa for balance. This is the white-bread version of the seizing and exploitation of Africa.
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