Africa, The Very Complete History – A Million Years in a Hundred Minutes

Africa, The Very Complete History – A Million Years in a Hundred Minutes

A Camden Conference Community Event hosted at Portland Public Library

Wednesday, January 27th at 6:30pm 

in the Rines Auditorium

Portland, Maine - Mac Deford and Tom DeMarco are back with their patented 100-minute history extravaganza, this time on the subject of Africa.   Along the way you’ll meet adventurers, rogues and scoundrels, and even a few heroes.  From Gondwanaland to Modern Africa with Lucy Australopithecus, Cecil Rhodes, Stanley and Livingstone, Muhammad Ahmad, Gen. Charles “Chinese” Gordon, Leopold-II, Karen Blixen and Denys Finch-Hatton, Hugh Cholmondeley and the Happy Valley set, and the mysterious Col. Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.

Tom DeMarco is the author of thirteen books (his sci-fi novel Andronescu's Paradox is the most recent) and a Principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a technology think tank with offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany.   Mac Deford is a retired Foreign Service officer with service primarily in the Middle East.  He had a subsequent career with Merrill Lynch International, mostly in South America and Asia, and is a regular columnist with The Free Press.

This event is presented by the Camden Conference in anticipation of the 29th Annual Camden Conference: The New Africa, February 19-21, 2016.  No advanced registration is necessary, but donations are appreciated.

The mission of the Camden Conference is to foster informed discourse on world issues. For more information, visit www.camdenconference.org, email info@camdenconference.org, or call 207-236-1034.