"A History of Africa" is a powerful narrative history of the continent from the beginning to the 21st century. Long established at the forefront of African Studies, the fourth edition of this classic history brings the book up to date to address the events of the 1990s.

"A History of Africa" is a narrative history of the continent from its beginnings to the 21st century. The fourth edition of this history brings the book up to date to address the events of the 1990s. The issues discussed include: post-apartheid South Africa; the prospects for democratisation in Africa at the beginning of the new millennium; developments in Muslim North Africa including the threat of Islamic fundamentalism; economic and social developments including the devastating impact of the Third World debt and the provision of debt relief; cultural, environmental and gender issues in Modern Africa.

• Part
• The internal development of African society
• The origins of African society
• Africa and the ancient civilizations of the Near East and the Mediterranean
• The development of states and trade in the Sudan
• The development of states and trade in Guinea
• States and trade in North
• East and Bantu Africa
• Part
• The impact of Islam
• The Rise of Islam and the Arab empires in North Africa
• The Muslim states and empires of North Africa
• The advance of Islam in West Africa
• Part
• Africa in the age of European expansion
• The beginnings of European enterprise in Africa
• The first stage of the impact of world trade on tropical Africa
• the export slave trade
• West Africa during the slave trade era
• Bantu Africa, c
• to c
• The expansion of European power during the nineteenth century,
• general considerations
• West Africa
• The expansion of European power during the nineteenth century,
• South, East and North Africa
• Part
• Africa in the modern world
• The colonial period,
• policies in general and colonies of exploitation in particular
• The colonial period,
• colonies of settlement
• Independence resumed
• Independent Africa,
• to
• Independent Africa,
• from
• Part
• The internal development of African society Part
• The impact of Islam Part
• Africa in the age of European expansion Part
• Africa in the modern world

One of the best single volume treatments.
-Times Educational Supplement
A really fresh overview that has no rival.
-Michael Crowder
By far the best single-authored history of Africa-reliable, careful, detailed, comprehensive..
-David Birmingham, University of Kent at Canterbury
Like its predecessors, this fourth edition is an accomplished historical narrative: accurate, well-informed, and clearly written..
-African Studies Review