Ancient African Kingdoms: From the Kingdom of Kush to the Mali Empire, Discover the History of Classical African Civilization (Easy History)

Wish I had read some more of the reviews before buying. This book is terrible. There's no logical or even chronological order and tons of references to people and places that are not explained. No map even showing where these kingdoms were and no references. And the writing is atrocious. Like others said, this is basically a high school book report level of writing. It's amazing that the writer was able to get this published.

This reads like a poor high-school report; I could not finish it. The author has gathered many titles of kingdoms, but the descriptions are jumbled and often irrelevant. Some entries didn't even make sense. "Antediluvian" is not a date. There is no map to help make sense of the rambling geography. This may have value as an overview, but this is not a book for the serious reader.

Do not throw your money away on this book. The depth of information contained in each kingdoms write-up would not make a good middle-school book report. There are no citations and no bibliography in the book.

The writing is so poor, and some of the terms so obviously inaccurate, that I can't even trust the minor details we receive about various African Kingdoms. Not even useful as a survey of ancient African history.

No sources, no citations, no nothing. The whole book seems like a child wrote it

This is a great book to help you learn about some ancient history of African kingdoms. It was interesting to learn that mathematics, language and agriculture originated in these lands. The different kingdoms had established religions, economics, culture, administration, agriculture, foreign relations and military. Go on the journey and learn much about the risr and fall of these nations.

Anyone who has an interest in ancient Africa will enjoy this book. You’ll learn about these ancient kingdoms, when they existed, the area they ruled over, their strengths and weaknesses, how long they existed and which ones are still in existence

This book has a lot of great information on the Ancient African Kingdoms and gives their history. This book is an interesting read. You can learn so much about their history and culture. I love to read about ancient civilizations.

Very badly written - mostly seems to be a collation of bits from different sources, with lots of repetition and very poor grammar.