Ọ dịbeghị na Asụsụ Igbo. Na-egosi nke mbụ n'asụsụ English.
Covers the ancient civilizations of the continent: Egypt in the age of the pharaohs, Nubia and the kingdom of Kush, Aksum, North Africa in the time of Carthage and Rome, and societies south of the Sahara in the same centuries. It includes the report of the 1974 UNESCO symposium in Cairo on the peopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroitic script, a debate still discussed today.
Summary written by CCAF for this library; not taken from the book.