Africa and Africans Author:Paul Bohannan From its earliest beginnings to its troubled volatile present, Africa is explored anew by an anthropologist and outstanding scholar of African affairs. With an eye to understanding how the African views himself and his rapidly changing world, this book covers the early peopling of the continent and its great feudal empires; the slave trade and c... more »olonialism; African art, family life, polity, economy, and religion; and the nature of African nationalism and neutrality.
More than just a survey of life on a continent, this is a lucid and stimulating book, full of insight into human affairs and the nature of emerging Africa.