Roland Anthony Oliver

Michael Crowder

J. D. Fage

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.

The Cambridge History of Africa

John E. Flint

John Edgar Flint

Specialists in various aspects of African history and civilization contribute to an integrated portrait of internal and foreign influences on the course of Africa's development

Roland Oliver

Anthony Atmore

This general history of modern Africa has been revised and updated to take full account of the fresh perspectives on African history brought about by the end of the Cold War.

Africa Since 1800

History of East Africa

The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050

Richard Gray

The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 1600 to c. 1790, edited by Richard Gray

John Desmond Clark

G. N. Sanderson

Volume VI covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers divided the continent of Africa into colonial territories.

Brian M. Fagan

Traces the dramatic political, social, economic, and religious changes that occurred throughout the African continent as a result of the technological advances of the period

Roland Anthony Oliver

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