TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reader, J.
AU  - John Reader
TI  - Africa: a biography of the continent
SN  - 9780679738695
AV  - DUCE DT20.R43 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage books
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - History
KW  - Africa,a bibliography of the continent
N1  - Includes bibliography and index
N2  - In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away from a volcano, were preserved in the petrified surface of a mudpan over three million years ago. Out of Africa, the world's most ancient and stable landmass, Homo sapiens dispersed across the globe.  And yet the continent that gave birth to human history has long been woefully misunderstood and mistreated by the rest of the world
ER  -