Twaddles new text describes and analyzes the changing social, political and economic setting in which Africas states and societies were shaped, first by the European takeovers of the nineteenth century, and then by the difficulties encounteredMoreTwaddles new text describes and analyzes the changing social, political and economic setting in which Africas states and societies were shaped, first by the European takeovers of the nineteenth century, and then by the difficulties encountered after independence in the twentieth century.