AFRICA: TEXTS AND SOURCES
| Some
thirty-five years ago, H.R. Trevor- Roper—in a moment of condescension
that quickly became notorious—declared to an audience on the BBC:
"Perhaps in the future, there will be some African history to teach.
But, at present there is none: there is only the history of the Europeans
in Africa. The rest is darkness...."
K. ANTHONY APPIAH, in Africa: The Hidden History, a review of Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader, Knopf, www.nybooks.com December 17, 1998 |