Title: The worst Africa survey I have yet encountered.
Product review: In the past year I have had the good fortune to read around 30 or so texts that can be considered excellent choices for an introduction to African history and civilization.Unfortunately, this book is easily the worst. The illustrations are excellent, but the book is nothing more than a rabin pro-African propoganda dumbed down for elementary or high school students. It is not thought provoking, as all of Africa's ills are blamed on Western colonialism.It's aimed for a high-school or lower audience. It seems Shillington is more concered with increasing the damaged self-esteem of Black students than with providing an accurate history that will allow those students to see the world realistically.
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