Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
History matters, says Thierry Zomahoun. Storytelling sets the tone for global perceptions of reality, which in turn influence the behavior of one group of people towards another. In this address delivered in October 2017 at the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, California, Zomahoun presented evidence that the Greek, Roman and other Western discoveries in mathematics that contributed to modern science were made thousands of years after similar African developments. Zomahoun argues that Africa is the birthplace of mathematical sciences, and that this is the continent’s single biggest contribution to humanity.
History matters, says Thierry Zomahoun. Storytelling sets the tone for global perceptions of reality, which in turn influence the behavior of one group of people towards another. In this address delivered in October 2017 at the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, California, Zomahoun presented evidence that the Greek, Roman and other Western discoveries in mathematics that contributed to modern science were made thousands of years after similar African developments. Zomahoun argues that Africa is the birthplace of mathematical sciences, and that this is the continent’s single biggest contribution to humanity.
