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In this book, Diop
compares the political andsocial systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the
formation of modern states. Throuhout, his intent is not to provide a history as such, but
rather guidelines fot historians and others who seek a scientific understanding of
precolonial societies in Africa, the Mediterranean, and Europe and thier links with the
earliest known stages of human deelopment Students and scholars of Africa an world history
will be challenged by Diop's original - though controversial - analysis of the
similarities and striking differences between black Africa and the West |