Africa’s history is filled with accounts of triumph, resilience, and profound transformation. Spanning thousands of years, the continent has been the cradle of some of the world’s earliest ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi. Mariner Books, 532 pages. While the text does an adequate job of surveying a vast topic, it ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few decades, ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has lamented that Africa’s failure to properly document its early civilisations has contributed to the continent’s present-day challenges. Oba Akanbi ...

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