The Fortunes of Africa
Martin Meredith
Five thousand years of Africa, told through the wealth others came to take.
Meredith narrates five thousand years of African history through its resources, gold, salt, ivory, enslaved people, diamonds and oil, and the internal and external greed they attracted. Spanning ancient Egypt to the modern resource states, it traces how the continent's riches drew traders, empires and colonizers, and how that pursuit shaped African fortunes. Written for general readers, it ties economic ambition to the long sweep of the continent's past.
Its legacy. It reached a wide popular audience as an accessible single-volume continental history.
- Author
- Martin Meredith
- First published
- 2014
- Genre
- History
- Theme
- The Continent's Own History
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680
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