British journalist and author who has written extensively on Africa — Africa: A Biography of the Continent, Man on Earth, Missing Links — combining photojournalism and historical research to produce comprehensive accounts of African history and human evolution.
Provides the most accessible and comprehensive popular history of Africa as a whole — Africa: A Biography of the Continent treats the continent as a single historical subject with its own geological, evolutionary, and cultural logic.
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