The Cambridge History of Africa is an illustrated, eight-volume history of Africa published by Cambridge University Press between 1975 and 1986.The Cambridge History of Africa. Cambridge Histories Online, Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 11 March 2016. Each volume is edited by a different person; the general editors of the series are John Donnelly Fage and Roland Oliver.
Cambridge University Press published e-book editions in March 2008.
Reception
The UNESCO collective tasked with writing the General History of Africa criticised the Cambridge history for not challenging colonial narratives. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza writes that the Cambridge history had very little information on women.
Volumes
See also The Cambridge History of South Africa UNESCO's General History of Africa, published 1981-1993
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