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Award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and filmmaker, Zeinab Badawi returns to Oxford to talk to Dean Ngaire Woods and Associate Professor Simukai Chigudu about her book An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence published in April this year.
The book guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, Zeinab Badawi unearths buried histories from across the continent and gives Africa its rightful place in our global story. The result is a gripping new account of Africa: an epic, sweeping history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves.
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk
Award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and filmmaker, Zeinab Badawi returns to Oxford to talk to Dean Ngaire Woods and Associate Professor Simukai Chigudu about her book An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence published in April this year.
The book guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, Zeinab Badawi unearths buried histories from across the continent and gives Africa its rightful place in our global story. The result is a gripping new account of Africa: an epic, sweeping history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves.
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk
