Bernard Lugan is an author whom I do not share political beliefs and social choices ... That said, there is, in my view, at present, no more objective and comprehensive specialist on the history of Africa and the geopolitics of the continent. Its history of South Africa is a real sum: the origins of the settlement, the San and the Khoi, the gradual descent to the southern Bantu-speaking peoples, the Cap counter, not a settlement but a fueling site for ships of the VOC, the British arrived and the beginnings of disputes with the Boers who flee northward colliding with Bantu, themselves in full tribal wars and plagued by a psychopath Chaka Zulu conqueror, wars Anglo-Boer Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the black nationalist awakening, political transition, and then since 1994, the ANC in power. Maps help understand the historical evolution. The analysis of differences and disagreements between Bantu peoples, who are no more homogeneous than Europe of past centuries, allow to better understand the power relations that oppose today the winners and losers in black communities. Lucid and disregarding the present politically correct cliches, Bernard Lugan focuses on facts and history, sparing no one, incensing no one, neither white nor black. Too bad that this author is currently ostracized by the academic community because of his political ideas, there expensive bet that future generations will rediscover the fascination. A book that any student or enthusiast of Africa the real story should have in his library.
