books.google.co.uk - In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994, John Iliffe refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Africans.html?id=dlHE51ScKTUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAfricans