The African Experience - Softcover

Oliver, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712698698 ISBN 13: 9780712698696

Publisher: Pimlico, 1993

Synopsis

Covering the entire span of human history across the African continent, this book begins in the Garden of Eden in the highland interior of East Africa and ends with the disintegration of apartheid. In the first chapter the author introduces us to our earliest tool-making ancestor (known affectionately as "dear boy"), in the last the author ponders the changes we are likely to see as the political elites of Africa begin to review the operation of their single-party systems. The human colonization of the continent - the origins of food production, the formation and diffusion of African languages, the achievements of Ancient Egypt, the impact of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, slavery, the caravan trade, exploration and colonization, the economic, political and social developments which gave rise to the modern nation states - this book looks at all these aspects in an overview of the history of Africa.

About this title

Book Description

A brilliant survey of African history, now revised to include the events of the 1990s.

About the Author

Roland Oliver was born in Kashmir in 1923. In 1948 he took up the post of Lecturer in the Tribal History of East Africa at SOAS, University of London, and was subsequently appointed the first ever Professor of African History in the University of London. From his base at SOAS, Professor Oliver pioneered the new discipline of African History. He was the founder-editor in 1960 of the Journal of African History and general editor of the eight-volume Cambridge History of Africa. His book (with John Fage), A Short History of Africa has been translated into fourteen languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pimlico
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712698698
• ISBN 13: 9780712698696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304