A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of historical events that have shaped the last two centuries of the African continent. * Stresses the diversity of Africa's rich variety of people, societies, cultures and religious beliefs * Provides a thought-provoking and illuminating journey through the slave trade and colonization to the rise of Islam, struggles for independence, and beyond * Puts the colonial era into proper perspective in relation to events that occurred before it and since * Wide-ranging in scope, it provides a framework for understanding such events as the genocidal horrors of Rwanda and the recent troubles in Zimbabwe and Kenya

Product Description: Party Politics and Decolonization explores the relationship between Conservative Party politics and British colonial policy in tropical Africa during the unbroken period of Conservative government from 1951 to 1964. Based on recently released documentary evidence, much of it never before published, Philip Murphy's study traces the development of Conservative attitudes towards Britain's role as a colonial power and describes reactions within the party to the rapid British withdrawal from Africa following the 1959 General Election...read more