African History

The empires, scholars, and civilisations of Africa that history has too often overlooked or erased.

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The oldest mathematical object in the world was found in Africa. Ancient Egyptians calculated pi. Malian astronomers mapped the stars.

Before European colonisation, Africa was home to some of the world's most powerful and sophisticated empires.

For decades, European colonisers fabricated myths about Great Zimbabwe rather than accept that Africans built it.

For three centuries, millions of Africans were taken across the Atlantic and never returned. What did the continent lose?

When Europe's libraries burned, the great works of Greece and Rome were preserved and returned by Islamic scholars.