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Africans

von John Iliffe

History Non-Fiction Biography

ISBN

0521484227

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erschienen

25.08.1995

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African history demographic growth colonialism Apartheid South Africa human origins survival social institutions economic institutions political institutions slave trade colonial invasion medical progress twentieth-century innovations population growth environmental challenges contemporary instability historical study Africa historical analysis John Iliffe history enthusiasts academic audience anthropology sociology political history environmental history cultural history historical narrative.

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In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994, John Iliffe refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers. These institutions enabled them to survive the slave trade and colonial invasion, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This demographic growth has lain behind the collapse of colonial rule, the disintegration of Apartheid, and the instability of contemporary nations. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.