 History of Modern Africa
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3265-7
Paperback
400 pages
November 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of historical events that have shaped the last two centuries of the African continent.
- Stresses the diversity of Africa’s rich variety of people, societies, cultures and religious beliefs
- Provides a thought-provoking and illuminating journey through the slave trade and colonization to the
rise of Islam, struggles for independence, and beyond - Puts the colonial era into proper perspective in relation to events that occurred before it and since
- Wide-ranging in scope, it provides a framework for understanding such events as the genocidal horrors
of Rwanda and the recent troubles in Zimbabwe and Kenya
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