A History of Africa

This narrative history of the African continent begins with early human societies, the spread of farming and metallurgy, and the formation of states and long-distance trade in the Sudan, Guinea, the Nile valley, and Bantu-speaking regions. A second part treats the arrival of Islam and the Muslim empires of North Africa and the western Sudan. The third examines European coastal enterprise, the Atlantic slave trade, and the nineteenth-century partition. The last follows colonial administration, settler and exploitation colonies, and the recovery of independence. Fage's thesis is that African political and economic systems have an internal history, not only a history of foreign impact.

Bound in red cloth with gilt embellishments. Black endleaves. Black two-volume slipcase with photograph of ivory mask on one side.