AN AFRICAN HISTORY OF AFRICA by Zeinab Badawi - 2026

From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence Every human being alive today is African. Not metaphorically — literally. And yet the story of the continent that gave rise to our species has been told, for centuries, by everyone except Africans themselves. This is the history they didn't want you to read in school. Not because it's too brutal — though it is: the ledgers of the slave trade, the maps carved up in European drawing rooms, the empires erased from memory to make room for a myth of an empty, timeless land waiting to be "discovered." But because it's too inconvenient. It dismantles the comforting fiction that Africa's story begins with colonizers and ends with independence, as if the twelve thousand years in between were simply silence. Zeinab Badawi doesn't ask for your comfort. She asks for your attention, to kingdoms richer than their European contemporaries, to scholars and scientists written out of the record, to the deliberate machinery of forgetting that turned a continent of civilizations into a blank space on a map. This book will make you angry. It will make you question what you were taught, who taught it, and why. That's not a flaw, it's the point. PRICE: 17,000 NGN