How Long to Read The African Poor

How Long Does it Take to Read The African Poor?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read The African Poor by John Iliffe

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

Description

This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of poverty elsewhere.

How long is The African Poor?

The African Poor by John Iliffe is 404 pages long, and a total of 102,616 words.

This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The African Poor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to read The African Poor aloud.

What Reading Level is The African Poor?

The African Poor 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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