Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of ...

It is a common practice to divide African history into three epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Yet as the philosopher Olufemi Taiwo has convincingly argued, this approach is wrong on ...

The General History of Africa (GHA) is a pioneering corpus ... recreated in African diasporas and technological knowledge systems. The last section of the book addresses the walks of life and ...

This book, as Richard Reid explains at the outset, is not the history of the European “Scramble for Africa” that the publishers asked him to write. It is a story of the African scramble.

that so much is not known about people from Africa who pioneered, invented or passed on ancient knowledge that we all benefit from in these modern times. Owen's mission was to put a book together ...

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