A Short History of Africa

Dramatic alterations in political power have corrected the once prevalent vision of a Europeancentered world. While the centers of European culture flourished, decayed and sprouted in turn, empires in Africa rose, ruled, resisted, and succumbed. Much of Africas past has now been excavated from ignorance and error, revealing a rich and previously littleknown human heritage.This classic work draws on the whole range of literature about Africa as well as evidence provided by archaeology, oral traditions, language relationships, and social institutions. It marshals the most authoritative views of African specialists into an absorbing narrative and puts forward original conclusions that take the study of Africa a stage further.