Any reading you could recommend? I’m ashamed to say that I know next to nothing about Africa and it’s histories. Whenever I try to research on my own I get overwhelmed.
Guns, Germs, and Steel might be a pretty good starting point. That’s more global in scope, but the guns and steel parts apply.
An African History of Africa by Zainab Badawi is dense, but is a bit more in depth than a typical history that condenses 12,000 years of history into half a chapter, then 15 chapters on the last 400 years when Europeans were involved.
Otherwise, you’re looking more at histories centered on regions and cultures and moments in time. Which is why it’s easy to get overwhelmed. It’s a whole continent, its history is complex, just as is Asia or South America or Europe.
Any reading you could recommend? I’m ashamed to say that I know next to nothing about Africa and it’s histories. Whenever I try to research on my own I get overwhelmed.
Guns, Germs, and Steel might be a pretty good starting point. That’s more global in scope, but the guns and steel parts apply.
An African History of Africa by Zainab Badawi is dense, but is a bit more in depth than a typical history that condenses 12,000 years of history into half a chapter, then 15 chapters on the last 400 years when Europeans were involved.
Otherwise, you’re looking more at histories centered on regions and cultures and moments in time. Which is why it’s easy to get overwhelmed. It’s a whole continent, its history is complex, just as is Asia or South America or Europe.