
Michael Brett
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LOCATION: London WC1H OX9, United Kingdom
Senior lecturer in the history of North Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Author of The Moors: Islam in the West.
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By the early 20th century about 90 percent of African territory had been incorporated into one European empire or another (with the exceptions of Ethiopia and Liberia). Though this colonization of Africa spanned several centuries, the bulk of it occurred in the last quarter of the 19th century…
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