AFRICAN HISTORYA, Very Short Introduction
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loginThis book is a very short introduction to a very big topic. In fact, it isa very short introduction to two very big topics. On the one hand, itis about a place and its people: Africa. On the other, it is about thepast of that place, as it has been envisaged by Africans and writtenabout by historians. The sheer scale of both place and past iscolossal. Africa: an entire continent, in terms of language andculture the world’s most diverse, stretching from the southernshores of the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope and todaycomprising over 50 separate nations. The cradle of mankind, wherehumans first evolved and from where they fanned out to settle theearth, Africa also possesses a recoverable history stretching backfive millennia to the earliest of the world’s ancient civilizations, thatof pharaonic Egypt.
