Europeans ground up Egyptian mummies and drank human blood for centuries — then called Africans savages for doing the same thing. Here’s what actually happened, what didn’t, and why it still matters.
They ran courts, trained leaders, controlled trade routes, and regulated sexual conduct. Then colonialism called them savage and dismantled them. Can Africa recover what was destroyed?
From splitting the Anglican Communion to sending missionaries back to Europe, Africa isn’t just joining the conversation about Christianity’s future, it’s leading it.
South Africa’s post-apartheid curriculum overhaul—imperfect and contested as it remains—represents a serious attempt to decolonise what children learn.
In many ways, the traces of African influence in the diaspora serves as a living testimony of the resilience of its people and the strength of their culture.
Unlike the rise of colonial languages, indigenous lingua francas primarily rose into prominence as a result of inter-ethnic expansions through extensive trade networks, and influential religious/political movements.
Before you visit the Door of No Return, the slave trade may feel like distant history—a chapter studied in school, reduced to dates and statistics. After you walk through those dungeons, the abstraction falls away.
By the end of this book, I had learned one vital lesson: much of our history has not been told from our African experience or in its full truth. Much has been hidden — especially the good parts.
How did improvised trade jargons born from slavery evolve into some of Africa's fastest-growing languages? And how did freed slaves returning to Freetown create Krio, the linguistic foundation that would spread across the entire coast?
