Book description
Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current
issues facing the continent, the new 2
nd
Edition of A History of Modern Africa
recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social
history over the past two centuries.
- Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the
importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in
explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges
- Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the
colonial encounter
- Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa
- Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account
of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the
political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya
Richard Reid is Reader in the History of Africa at the School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the
author of Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society
and Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (2002), War in
Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), and Frontiers of Violence
in Northeast Africa (2011), as well as numerous articles
on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of east and northeast Africa.
