Black Africa ...

This book consists mainly of accounts about the anthropology of Black Africa as it is today and as it has been during the past thirty years or so. It is not about prehistoric or medieval Africa, nor about the traditional Africa or pre-colonial days, about which we know very little due to lack of records. Not that the general life of the mass of Africans would seem to have altered in its totality all that much since those days. But of course it has changed, often radically and irrevocably, but this is as yet not easily noticeable throughout the continent. Its changes have various baselines, some dating from the fifteenth century, others from the Second World War.