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Can anyone recommend any good books for reading up on the history of Africa?

I understand that's a very generic/big ask, so summaries to get up to speed on the continent would be helpful.

That's actually a surprisingly apt analogy

That's as vague a question as asking for a book about the history of Europe. You're going to have to narrow it down to regions and more specific time periods.

If you're concerned with recent history of the Horn of Africa and you're interested in the Ogaden War, I'd suggest checking out Wings over Ogaden by Tom Cooper. It's a fairly short read that mostly talks about the air campaign of the war, but he does a good job explaining the background of the war for an audience that knows next to nothing about the area.

>Mexicans in Alaska

Good god

Yeah but we pussied out

Minnesota

>somolia
>good beach vacation
Go away mufasa

Nah, best colony was Eritrea, people there actually fought for Italy tooth and nail until they were forced into Ethiopia

>Somali never had "Warlords" it had clan generals
A rose is a rose by any other name

Except they weren't savages, they were a fairly advanced, sea-faring people since antiquity. Somali ports show up on Roman and Greek maps, and when the Portuguese tried to take the city in the 16th century, they had to nope the fuck out of there. Even the British struggled to fully occupy their part. It took them 20 years and the first bombing campaign after WWI to fully take the territory. Somalia was actually a lot more prosperous in the past than it is today. They didn't need white people to teach them about "technology, civilization and the rule of law" you fuckwit.