Born in Blackness
Born in Blackness Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote…
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Born in Blackness
Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the "New World." Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum.
French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity?In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W.
Born in Blackness