Africans: The History of a Continent New Edition (African Studies, Series Number 108)

Africans: The History of a Continent New Edition (African Studies, Series Number 108)
by John Iliffe (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (4 Oct. 2007)
Language: English
Paperback: 386 pages
ISBN-10: 0521682975
ISBN-13: 9780521682978
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Book Description
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.