A useful overview, especially until around the end of the 1800s, but the tone and focus are sometimes shockingly mushy and bland when describing events that were, by all other accounts, quite horrific. Do read with King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and The...
I haven't exactly finished this but I am struggling and have decided 3/4 is enough and its not worth carrying on with just to say I have read all of it- its like trying to run in very cold treacle