A Short History of Africa
Roland Oliver and J.D. Fage
The pocket survey that helped launch African history as a university discipline.
Published as the academic field was being born, Oliver and Fage compressed the whole continent's past into a concise survey covering early humanity, the Bantu migrations, the Sudanic states, the slave trades and colonial rule. Written by two scholars who had just founded the Journal of African History, it gave students a coherent narrative where none existed and helped establish African history as a legitimate discipline in the university.
Its legacy. It went through many editions and trained generations of students entering the field.
- Author
- Roland Oliver and J.D. Fage
- First published
- 1962
- Genre
- History
- Theme
- The Continent's Own History
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