Written collectively by a group of history experts unter the guidance of the Institute of Curriculum Development
"This book picks up East African history from where Section One of Secondary History Sections One and Two - Institute of Education, Secondary History Sections One and Two: The Development of East African and Other African Societies up to the 19th Century, Dar es Salaam University Press, 1983 - ends. It starts by surveying the social, political and economic set-up of the different East African societies by 1850. The rest of the book shows how during and after the second half of the nineteenth century the history was influenced by the development of the capitalist mode of production." -- (Introduction)
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by S. Augustus Mitchell, in the Clerk's Office of the district court of the United States, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania
