A SHORT HISTORY OF AFRICA

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1970. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Later Printing. 297 pp. Revised edition. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing on the upper left of the back cover and minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with maps. The Contents are: The Hunters; The Farmers; The Townsmen; The Sudanic Civilization; Mediterranean Civilization in Northern and Western Africa; The Arab Empire in Africa; Northern and Western Africa During the Great Age of Islam; North-East and East Africa in Medieval and Early Modern Times; The States of Guinea; The Era of Firearms and the Slave Trade - North and West Africa; The Era of Firearms and the Slave Trade - From the Congo to the Zambezi; The Turn of the Tide in Europe; The Nineteenth Century: North and West Africa; Southern Africa; East and North-East Africa; The European Scramble for African Colonies; The Colonial Period: First Phase; Second Phase; Third Phase - Economic Development and Welfare; and Independent Africa; followed by an index..