It’s A Continent by Astrid Madimba & Chinny Ukata (Coronet, R450)
Madimba and Ukata are determined to smash the myopic overseas stereotype of Africa as one country with one culture.
Aimed at overseas readers, the book, subtitled ‘Unravelling Africa’s history one country at a time’, comes from the authors’ own knowledge gaps (they were brought up in England) and emerges from the