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For the non-African, Africa is the ambiguous continent. Since paleolithic times it has sustained human life; some paleontologists believe it is where human life began. From at least 1500 Africa has been an integral part of world history. Until the nineteenth century it remained largely divided, diverse, tribal, remote, insular and oriented (where it was oriented to the outside world at all) either towards the Mediterranean or the Indian Ocean.
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See Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa, 1876— 1912, New York 1991.
See S.E. Crowe, The Berlin West African Conference, Westport, Conn., 1970.
See T. Pakenham, The Boer War, London, 1979.
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Woodruff, W. (2002). Africa: 1500–1914. In: A Concise History of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554665_4
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