In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of
mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on
the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have
been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the
last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical
progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has
ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and linguistic
findings, throwing light on early African history and summarises
research that has transformed the study of the Atlantic slave
trade. It also examines the consequences of a rapidly growing
youthful population, the hopeful but uncertain democratisation and
economic recovery of the early twenty-first century, the
containment of the AIDS epidemic and the turmoil within Islam that
has produced the Arab Spring. Africans: The History of a Continent
is thus a single story binding modern men and women to their
earliest human ancestors.
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