J. D. Fage

For the Most Part in Book Form

A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages

A History of Africa is a thorough narrative history of the continent from its beginnings to the twenty-first century. Long established at the forefront of African Studies, this book addresses the events of the 1990s and beyond. The issues discussed include: post-apartheid South Africa the prospects for democratization in Africa at the beginning of the new millenniumdevelopments in Muslim North Africa including the threat of Islamic fundamentalismeconomic and social developments including the devastating impact of Third World debt and the provision of debt reliefcultural, environmental and gender issues in Modern Africa.

A History of Africa

Roland Anthony Oliver

Michael Crowder

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.

The Cambridge History of Africa

John E. Flint

John Edgar Flint

Specialists in various aspects of African history and civilization contribute to an integrated portrait of internal and foreign influences on the course of Africa's development

The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050

Richard Gray

The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 1600 to c. 1790, edited by Richard Gray

John Desmond Clark

Roland Oliver

G. N. Sanderson

Volume VI covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers divided the continent of Africa into colonial territories.

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