Understanding Africa

Starting eight million years ago, Understanding Africa provides an accurate and detailed account of the natural, political and social forces that have created the Africa we know of today and which have shaped the continent’s destiny through the ages In 2001, Tony Blair, the then British Prime Minister, described Africa as “a scar on the conscience of the world”. Yet there is not one ‘Africa’. North Africa, West Africa, East Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, for example, are quite different both geo