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100			_aIliffe, J. _qJohn Iliffe
245			_aAfricans: _bthe history of a continent/ _cJohn Iliffe
250			_a2nd
260			_aCambridge: _bCambridge university press, _c2007.
300			_axiii, 365p.: _bill.; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aIn a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and linguistic findings, throwing light on early African history and summarises research that has transformed the study of the Atlantic slave trade. It also examines the consequences of a rapidly growing youthful population, the hopeful but uncertain democratisation and economic recovery of the early twenty-first century, the containment of the AIDS epidemic and the turmoil within Islam that has produced the Arab Spring. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding modern men and women to their earliest human ancestors.
650			_2Social sciences _aHistory _bAfricans _xThe history of a continent
700			_aIliffe, J. _eAuthor _qJohn Iliffe
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