| dc.description.abstract | The primary aim in collecting together these chapters covering the African
experience from antiquity to the present, and presenting them in this manner, has
been to provide a basis for group discussion classes in secondary schools and, indeed,
in the 8-4-4 university curricula. The general reader, nevertheless, who wishes to
learn the living ideas of the late Kenyan eminent historians and educators, Matthias
Ogutu and Simon Kenyanchui, should also find this form of presentation valuable.
The choice of the authors' works for consideration hardly needs a justification here:
their topics on the African history have an undeniable perennial interest, and their
clarity of expression and honest arguments should be an excellent example of the
way such topics should be treated. It is no disadvantage in a book of this kind that
their views are provocative and controversial, for it aims precisely at provoking
thought and discussion. | en_US |
