As a young boy, I had a voracious appetite for world-history and identifying my self with in it. At some point along the road I lost my curiosity for history and answering questions about my families past. But the older I get the more I feel my self returning back to my first love of world-history and African history in particular.
I wanted to share some of the things I am reading with the group which I believe will enrich us as we prepare for this summit and prepare to carry the struggle of Pan-Africanism into the next century and beyond. I want to learn more about West Africa's pre-colonial history and the world-system in which they traded and thrived. Below are a few links from the net I found interesting. Please, share any you may come by on the same subject.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade
4,000 years of Afro-Asia Trade and the myth of European Exceptionalism
Europe's pillage of Africa's resources throughout history
1 comment:
Thank you for some very good references. I suggest that you also consider How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney (http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/how-europe/index.htm)
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