An African History of Africa

In a world where western narratives have poorly chalked up Africa''s history to simply one of slavery and colonialism, Badawi heads out on a corrective journey. Visiting 30 of the continent''s countries and interviewing everyone from historians to anthropologists, this is an eye-opening book

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Zeinab Badawi is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and filmmaker. She is President of SOAS University of London and is an honorary fellow of her alma mater St Hilda's College, Oxford. Born in Sudan, she has worked in the British media for several decades. Zeinab is a recipient of the President's Medal of the British Academy, a Patron of the United Nations Association UK, and is on the boards of the Arts, Humanities and Research Council, MINDS (the Mandela Institute for Development Studies), the International Crisis Group and Afrobarometer. She was previously Chair of the Royal African Society. An African History of Africa is her first book.