History of Africa/500 To 1800

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    The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
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    History takes time.... History makes memory.
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    America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)