A History of Modern Africa

Synopsis

A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of historical events that have shaped the last two centuries of the African continent.

• Stresses the diversity of Africa's rich variety of people, societies, cultures and religious beliefs
  
• Provides a thought-provoking and illuminating journey through the slave trade and colonization to the rise of Islam, struggles for independence, and beyond
  
• Puts the colonial era into proper perspective in relation to events that occurred before it and since
  
• Wide-ranging in scope, it provides a framework for understanding such events as the genocidal horrors of Rwanda and the recent troubles in Zimbabwe and Kenya