About the Book

This book, Understanding Africa, is a compilation of a number of articles explaining the analytical stories of culture change in the African continent.

Conference Presentation

A few articles of this book have been presented in draft form at an international conference held and organized by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, International Islamic University Malaysia, in December 2015.

Publication and Acknowledgments

After the conference, the department has given us the responsibility of editing this book on Africa, adding a few related articles from outside before this volume is published. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance and cooperation of our colleagues in the department who have given us the responsibility to organize this work, and at same time, gain their confidence and expectation that the final making of this work will be completed at the earliest.