Journalist Zeinab Badawi has written a sweeping survey of history from an African perspective. What makes it different is that most of the story has been told from a traditional Western perspective. She wanted to capture the history as known by Africans.
Badawi worked on the BBC TV documentary series “The History of Africa” and visited more than 30 countries, interviewing local historians, anthropologist, storytellers and archaeologists. That led to the book which starts with the dawn of humanity and goes up to independence.
Because it’s 544 pages, the WTB Book Club decided to read the first half and discuss it in September and then read the second half in October and finish discussing it then.
The September discussion is book Monday, September 14 on Zoom.