How Long to Read Living with Africa

How Long Does it Take to Read Living with Africa?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Living with Africa by Jan Vansina

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

Description

In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. "I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he could analyze Kuba oral...

How long is Living with Africa?

Living with Africa by Jan Vansina is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Living with Africa Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read Living with Africa aloud.

What Reading Level is Living with Africa?

Living with Africa 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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