TY - BOOK AU - Iliffe,John TI - Africans: the history of a continent T2 - African studies SN - 9781107198326 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - DT20 .I45 2017 U1 - 960 23 KW - Africa KW - History N1 - "First edition first published 1995."; Includes bibliographical references and index; The frontiersmen of mankind -- The emergence of food-producing communities -- The impact of metals -- Christianity and Islam -- Colonising society in western Africa -- Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- Colonial invasion -- Colonial society and African nationalism -- Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994 -- Independent Africa, 1956-95 -- Recovery? ER -