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Dr Kevin Shillington is an independent historian and biographer. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. His recent books include History of Africa, 4th edition (2019) and Patrick van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationalist (2020).

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Average rating: 3.73 · 524 ratings · 51 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	History of Africa 3.78 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1989 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghana and the Rawlings Factor 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of Southern Africa liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luka Jantjie: Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecil Rhodes: The Man Behind the Statues liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afrika Tarihi 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albert Rene: The Father of Modern Seychelles, A Biography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	History of Africa, Revised 2nd Edition liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There followed heavy British investment in railway construction in the 1850s connecting the Mediterranean port of Alexandria to Cairo and the Red Sea port of Suez. In1859, French engineers began work on a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea at Suez (Figure 21.4”
― Kevin Shillington, History of Africa

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“The most dramatic of all slave revolts occurred in the French island colony of Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti). This was France’s major sugar-producing island. Plantation production had increased so rapidly in the late eighteenth century that, by the early 1790s, Saint-Domingue contained some 400,000 slaves. Under the leadership of one of their number, known by the French name of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the slaves of Saint-Domingue rose against and killed their white French masters in 1791.”
― Kevin Shillington, History of Africa

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“Zanzibar was the first Swahili town to come under serious Portuguese attack. In 1503, Ruy Lourenço Ravasco, a Portuguese sea captain, blasted at the townspeople with his ship’s cannon until the sultan of Zanzibar agreed to pay an annual tribute of 100 mithqals in gold (the equivalent of 425 grams). The attack was, in fact, little more than a piratical raid launched on the initiative of one Portuguese captain.”
― Kevin Shillington, History of Africa

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