How Long to Read Africa's Long Road Since Independence

How Long Does it Take to Read Africa's Long Road Since Independence?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 27 minutes to read Africa's Long Road Since Independence by Keith Somerville

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.

How long is Africa's Long Road Since Independence?

Africa's Long Road Since Independence by Keith Somerville is 496 pages long, and a total of 126,976 words.

This makes it 167% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Africa's Long Road Since Independence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 33 minutes to read Africa's Long Road Since Independence aloud.

What Reading Level is Africa's Long Road Since Independence?

Africa's Long Road Since Independence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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