The Description of Africa is the first comprehensive book about Africa, written by Leo Africanus, an African scholar trained in the Islamic intellectual tradition, in 1526, during the Italian Renaissance. A skillful mixture of anthropology and geography, as well as a travelogue and biography, it became the only source material for early modern Europeans about the African continent.
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