Ebook: Black mother: The years of the African slave trade

African independence is one of the great facts of the modern world. Yet Africa was also independent in the past. African states had many and varied links of alliance and commercial part nership with Europe for several hundred years before the colonial period began.
Black Mother is about the course and consequences of this long African-European connection that endured from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth. It makes an answer to three vital questions: What kind of contact was this with Europe and America? How did the experience affect Africa? Why did it end in colonial invasion and conquest?
As with its predecessor, The Lost Cities of Africa, the aim of this book is to reassess the past of Africa, and thus contribute to a fuller understanding of the independent Africa of today.