The Human Tradition in Modern Africa

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This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of the Africa's tumultuous history since 1800. They coped with upheavals such as the Atlantic slave trade, the conquest of smaller societies by larger ones, and growing European intrusion and conquest. More recently, they were actors who participated in the changes and challenges of independence: dictatorship, economic boom and bust, internal conflict, and, for some, migration to Europe. Their lives demonstrate that individual women and men can and do indeed "make history.