Mastodawn

One of the reasons I started writing a blog was to address my deep dissatisfaction with the way Africa is studied or talked about outside the continent, especially. This is mostly marked by absence. But when it is not, most interlocutors ignore the impact of external interference.
https://folukeafrica.com/how-we-study-africa/

How We Study Africa

We study the ripples. Not the water. Under which the bodies lie.

Foluke's African Skies

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GinevraCat 2d ago

@folukeifejola I think I watched this series a while back
https://www.pbs.org/show/africas-great-civilizations/
which had some elements of an African approach to African history, and went into some of the consequences of colonization.

But still from the perspective of an American Scholar.

I have now put the African history documentary by Zeinab Bedawi on my ToWatch list.

Africa's Great Civilizations

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa.