Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya

Author Biography

Richard Reid is Reader in the History of Africa at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He isthe author of Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy,Society and Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (2002), War inPre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007), and Frontiers ofViolence in Northeast Africa (2011), as well as numerousarticles on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of eastand northeast Africa.