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Title: African Experience: Major Themes in African History from Earliest Times to the Present by Roland Oliver ISBN: 0-06-430218-0 Publisher: Harpercollins (Short Disc) Pub. Date: January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Not a grabber, but good on recent politics.
Comment: I was reminded of nothing so much as a boring college lecture initially. His style is long, long paragraphs with long sentences, stringing together seemingly disconnected facts with no linear tale emerging. But after the archaelogy and paleontology, when he gets more into sociology and politics, subjects in which he is evidently more comfortable and fluent, I felt it was worth the effort. I was amazed he was able to write such a book without ever discussing racial issues, either prejudice or discrimination based on color. I felt that was a lack. Also in the colonial discussions it had the flavor of an apologia for British actions. But he did cover the history of slavery in a clear if broad way. Ultimately I learned things I didn't know before, and I guess that's what you can get from such a book. He ended before Mandela's incredible ascent to the presidency. The book needs an epilogue.