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A STATE-OF-THE-ART SURVEY OF HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP ON AFRICA - Africans: The History of a Continent. Second Edition. By John Iliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+365. £40 (isbn978-0-521-86438-1); £14.99, paperback (isbn978-0-521-68297-8).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

JOHN PARKER
JOHN PARKER
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Historiography
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Book Review
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The Journal of African History , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 125 - 129
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References

1 Spear, Thomas, ‘Review article: Africa's Population history’, Journal of African History, 37 (1996), 479–85, 484.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Roderick J. McIntosh, The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold (Oxford, 1998); Jan Vansina, How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600 (Charlottesville, 2004).

3 D. Eltis, S. H. Behrendt, D. Richardson and H. S. Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (Cambridge, 1999).

4 Frederick Cooper, Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present (Cambridge, 2002).

5 Since publication, the conflict in DR Congo has been judged to have accounted for the highest loss of life of any war, not just in Africa, as indicated by Iliffe (p. 309), but in the world since 1945.

6 J.-F. Bayart, S. Ellis and B. Hibou, The Criminalization of the African State (Oxford, 1999).

7 This material is based largely on Iliffe's own, intervening, monograph on the topic, The African AIDS Epidemic: A History (Oxford, 2006).