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This comprehensive and meticulously researched book about Africans’ effects on history in many countries gives documented facts that are fascinating, startling, and little known. Historian Robert Bradley discusses their glorious past that has been clouded by invasions, enslavement, and colonialism. His book reveals the achievements of black people, as well as their vulnerabilities and mistakes.
Africa's great riches attracted foreigners from the earliest times. They went to Africa as settlers, missionaries, traders, adventurers, and explorers. They also went as invaders and conquerors. Africa has been under relentless pressure from invaders for over 3,000 years.
Africa is the birthplace of mankind. Anthropologists have found the oldest prehistoric human fossil remains in Africa. A DNA study conducted by the University of California at Berkeley concluded that everyone living on earth today came from an African woman who lived up to 300,000 years ago.
The great civilization that began in ancient Ethiopia moved up the Nile Valley and reached glory as the Egyptian civilization. The author discusses Pharaoh Hatshepsut, one of the greatest female rulers of all time, and Hannibal, the great Carthaginian general whose tactical genius in defeating the much larger Roman army still is taught today in military schools all over the world.
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