A Short History of Africa

Well-written, concise, informative I read the 1966 (second)edition of this volume and was not aware of updates until checking Amazon. Despite much political and demographic change in Africa over the last 30-odd years, and despite the availability of much more research and the advent of DNA-based stu......more

Tucked away on a bookshelf in my parents home since I was a teenage boy was this book entitled "A Short History of Africa" by Roland Oliver and J.D. Fage. I made a promise to myself in the 1980s, when I was at university, that one day I would start reading the book. That promise has been honored and......more

It is a really short history, but I liked it. I am looking for more info on the history since 1945 and due to unfamiliar names and places, it is a tough read.......more

It was written by some master academic professor who supposedly founded academic Africa studies so I was expecting quality. The problem is, I don't really care what kind of axes they used in prehistoric times or about some random similar details. I am looking for historical narratives or ways to exp......more

While this book was certainly interesting, it felt short of what I was hoping to get from it. I was mainly curious to find out more about pre-colonial Africa. The authors do make an effort to cover this aspect, and were quite successful in their discussion of ancient Egypt’s influence on what they c......more