Paul Hamlyn, London - first UK edition, 1967. Hardcover, 9" x 6", with dust jacket. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with the usual stamps, stickers, barcode, pocket etc. Inside jacket flap mounted to preliminary page; shelf-wear to boards. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket. Over 400 portraits and maps, 600 potted biographies (Mandella didn't make it, Idi Amin does). During the decade preceding the publication of this book thirty-five Black African nations had won their independence, that's 200 million people. This book is a factual account of the events and lives which secured this independence. It was written with immediacy and insight by 50 correspondents of Reuters International actually stationed in Africa,.