The African Experience

Résumé du livre

First published in 1991, this is a work of reflection on the substance of African history, the distillation of a lifetime¿s research and teaching. Roland Oliver traces, in twenty chapters, the history of Africa from the earliest evolution of man or `pre-man¿ up to the present day, concentrating on the great themes of African history. So for example ¿The Bricks of Babel¿ describes the evolution of African languages; `Peoples of the Book¿, the arrival of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; `Masters and Slaves¿, slavery and the slave trade in Africa; `Strangers at the Gates¿, the 19th-century impact
of Europeans; `the Slippery Slope¿, African governments in their first decades of independence.
For this new edition Professor Oliver has made a number of revisions, including a new chapter summarising the triumphs and disasters of the 1990s.