Book · 1997 · Nonfiction

Africa

Name: Africa
Author: John Reader

A Biography of the Continent

John Reader

Vintage (Penguin Random House) · 816 pages

★ 5.8 editorial score

Reader runs from the first hominids to apartheid, showing how Africa's exhausted soils and its diseases kept a vast continent thinly peopled, then how the slave trade turned people into its chief export.

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