The Fortunes of Africa Quotes

“When the water levels underground fell, their society perished.”
― Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

“During the New Kingdom, the collection of spells and prayers that had appeared in the Pyramid Texts and then the Coffin Texts was expanded into a new version that was known at the time as the ‘Book of Going Forth by Day’ but in the nineteenth century CE acquired the modern name of the ‘Book of the Dead’. It was usually written on a papyrus scroll but the contents varied from one to the next according to the choices a person made in deciding what texts might be needed or useful on the journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife.”
― Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

“forlorn”
― Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

“totalitarian”
― Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

“There are places to which men are attracted by the desire of gain which seem to be so repulsive that no gain can compensate the miseries incidental to such an habitation,”
― Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor