Carina Ray's blog

Academics are often accused of being preoccupied with theory rather than practice, and semantics instead of actions, while favoring microscopic details over the big picture. Scholars working on Africa, in particular, are often accused of being intellectually self-indulgent, while the continent faces an array of very real challenges.  read more »

By now it is old news that Africa's supposed lack of civilization, history, and culture was conjured up to justify the enslavement, and later the colonization of millions of Africans.  The venerable historian of Africa, Basil Davidson, summed it up best when he argued,

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