A Brief Political and Geographic History of Africa

Where Are the Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, and Kush? (Places in Time/a Kid's Historic Guide to the Changing ... to the Changing Names & Places of the World)

By Davenport, John

Publishers Summary:
Africa is a vibrant but all-too-often misunderstood continent. Outsiders know Africa from the evening news as a collection of countries plagued by war, famine, disease, and poverty. Few people are aware of its rich past, dynamic present, and promising future. Africans, however, look back into a yesteryear crowded with empires and kingdoms and into a tomorrow filled with economic and political potential. The difference between these two ways of seeing Africa emerges from the fact that so many of the places that once dominated its landscape have disappeared from the world s maps. The Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, and Kush are but a few of the locations that no longer can be found on a modern globe. They were once central to the lives of millions of people, but now they are gone. They have become places lost in time.

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ISBN
978-1-58415-624-6
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on August 1, 2008

Gr 5-9 These two volumes attempt to cover several thousand years of history of continent-size landmasses in just over 100 pages. Each is flawed in ways that are to be expected for such a projectmany broad generalizations appear, entire periods are glossed over, and areas and peoples not part of empires or other political units generally don't appear. There are minor factual errors in e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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