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The African Experience - From Olduvai Gorge To The 21st Century (Paperback, 2)
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The African Experience - From Olduvai Gorge To The 21st Century (Paperback, 2)
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This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, the second edition
of "The African Experience," covers the entire span of human
history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence
of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day.
Drawing on more than forty years of teaching and research,
Professor Oliver arranges the book thematically, beginning with the
human colonization of the different regions of Africa, the origins
of food production, and the formation of African languages.The
achievements of Ancient Egypt are placed in context with the
developments in the rest of the continent, and the spread of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - "peoples of the book." The
tradition of urban settlement is traced, especially in western
Africa, as well as the emergence of large and complex societies
formed by the interaction of pastoralists and cultivators in
eastern and southern Africa.The extent and nature of slavery in
Africa is fully discussed, together with the external slave trade
and the caravan trade in precolonial times. This leads to an
analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of African political
systems and why, from the early nineteenth century onwards, these
systems were unable to withstand political pressure from abroad and
the ensuing colonization. The colonial partition of Africa saw the
rapid amalgamation of small units, through which considerable
modernization was achieved at the expense of the indigenous
structures and through the exploitation of the African peoples.
Later chapters describe the birth of modern African nation-states,
at a time of widespread belief in state planning - now being
questioned as the political elites of black Africa begin to review
their single-party systems. This new edition sees a number of
revisions, including a new chapter on the 1990s, when the end of
the Cold War left Africa free at last to try to solve its own
problems.
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