Africa is a continent gripped by civil wars, refugees, and widespread famine. A significant number of the causes of these crises are deep rooted, many extending back to the continent's colonial past when Africa was partitioned between European powers - partitions that survived as the former colonies became separate sovereign states. The book discusses pre-colonial Africa, the increasing European interest in the continent, the European partition and the subsequent colonial rule and de-colonization.

Africa is a continent gripped by civil wars and widespread famine. The causes of many of the continent's problems are deep rooted and can be traced to Africa's colonial past, when European powers divided the spoils of the continent into separate sovereign states.
The African Inheritance examines the effect this "balkanization" of Africa has had, and is having, on the political and economic well-being of the continent.
From a brief history of pre-colonial Africa and its subsequent European partition and inevitable decolonization, the book discusses the consequences of such an...