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Africa, in its fullness
The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism
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Toby Green
teaches Lusophone African history and culture at King's College London. His latest book, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (2019), was awarded the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and will be published in paperback in January 2020.
4,000 words
Edited by Sam Haselby
The sign above the Asylum, Kings Gate, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Courtesy Sierra Leone Heritage
Africa, in its fullness
The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism
Liberating the precolonial history of Africa – Toby Green | Aeon Essays
The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism
Toby Green
teaches Lusophone African history and culture at King's College London. His latest book, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (2019), was awarded the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and will be published in paperback in January 2020.
4,000 words
Edited by Sam Haselby
The sign above the Asylum, Kings Gate, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Courtesy Sierra Leone Heritage
