Growing up Black in the West means that learning a narrow version of world history is inevitable. Even if you took AP classes in high school, the European perspective was always the main course in any history class. That isn't to say that understanding the nations and events that solidified Western dominance isn't valuable, but having the appropriate amount of nuance regarding the divergent cultures that influenced European life would be helpful. — Read the rest
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/12/20/what-was-up-in-africa-during-the-renaissance.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-was-up-in-africa-d
