Shula E. Marks
Contributor
LOCATION: London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Professor of the History of Southern Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1983–93. Author of The Ambiguities of Dependence in Southern Africa and others.
Primary Contributions (2)
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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