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This fascinating collection spans two millenia, beginning with a first-century merchant's guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes, China's discovery of Africa, the slave trade, kingdoms and court life in inner East and West Aftica, and the experiences of Asian and European settler, merchants, and colonialists. There are writings by important local authorities and scholars as well as travelers and administrators from other continents. The ideas of leaders who shaped modern Africa are represented int he documents of jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Steven Biko, and Nelson Mandela.
Robert O. Collins, University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of numerous scholarly books, including The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988. His 1984 book, Shadow in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956, won the John Ben Snow Prize for the best book in British Studies.
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