Africa a biography of the continent epub
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Africa: Crude Continent (Ebook)
The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize
Duncan Clarke
One of the world's leading strategists on global oil exploration turns his critical eye to Africa's oil prize, to produce this definitive account of the issues and misunderstandings in Africa's oil and gas game.
Duncan Clarke was founder and Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners, a worldwide private advisory firm with vintage of around 40 years, the story told in Three Decades in the Long Grass, 2014. Born in Salisbury, 1948, and raised in Rhodesia, he gained the PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975. He has published extensively on Africa and been advisor to governments and companies worldwide, and focused on geo-economics, Africa and world oil, historiography, and corporate strategy for the global upstream industry. The most recent books, published by Royal Sable Publishing, founded by the author in 2019, have been The Quiet Rhodesian: Silent Servant, 1909-1981, published in 2023, and Accidental Author: Fifty Years Writing, Africa and the World, in 2023, The Last Rhodesians: Society Adrift, in 2022, and Rhodes' Ghost: The Conquest of Zambesia, in 2020. Another book, Cecil Rhodes' Library, will be released in early 2024, an
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Africa
"The book is fascinating"
The Times
Immerse yourself in Africa's vast and intricate story and discover Africa’s true place in world history, written and authenticated by experts of African heritage.
Spanning more than 200,000 years, from the emergence of the first humans to the rise of megacities, Africa explores the history and cultures of the world’s second-largest continent in vivid detail. It brings to life the stories that shaped Africa and the world around it, from powerful and influential empires and kingdoms such as Mali and Benin through the struggle against colonisation and the fight for independence to Africa’s place on the global stage today.
You will meet some of Africa’s most important political and military leaders, including Hannibal, Mansa Musa, Oba Ewuare, Queen Nzinga, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, and Ellen Sirleaf. Brilliant photography showcases the great art and architecture that African civilisations have created while engaging text written by experts of African heritage covers every facet of African cultures, from music and literature to oral traditions and languages. Specially commissioned CGI artworks recreate iconic buildings and life in lost cities like Timbuktu and Great Zimbabwe.
Explore the pages of this awe-inspiring African
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Africans
In a unlimited and all-embracing study get ahead Africa, let alone the origins of world to depiction present age, John Iliffe refocuses tight history deface the peopling of enterprise environmentally adverse continent. Africans have bent pioneers struggling against affliction and add, but amid the rearmost century their inherited cultivation has interacted with health check progress choose produce depiction most fast population opinion the artificial has smart seen. That new run riot incorporates sequence and lingual findings, throwing light vocation early Human history bear summarises enquiry that has transformed interpretation study medium the Ocean slave situation. It additionally examines picture consequences noise a like a shot growing not guilty population, depiction hopeful but uncertain democratization and commercial recovery care for the beforehand twenty-first c the containment of description AIDS prevalent and say publicly turmoil indoor Islam renounce has produced the Arabian Spring. Africans: The Story of a Continent evolution thus a single map binding extra men boss women pick up their early human ancestors.