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comradebibliophile's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
adamjcalhoun's review against another edition
3.0
What a weird book. Two of the first three chapters in this book about Precolonial Black Africa are about the history of Classical Greece and the development of Europe. A lot of the book is obviously factually incorrect (there has never been an uprising in Africa?!). When it says a history of Black Africa, it really means a very small region of Western Africa despite constantly referring to history in all of "Africa".
But it is still an interesting historical ethnography, even if the consistent inclusion of historical falsehoods make me question a lot of it.
But it is still an interesting historical ethnography, even if the consistent inclusion of historical falsehoods make me question a lot of it.
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