Scholars will have access to a digital library that currently features more that 1,200 books that will allow research on Africa and African Cultures.
What They Never Told You About Africa
Our library shall be a reference resource for registered site Participants and Gaskiya’s Online Academy Scholars. You must sign in to the sight for use. Please note: Due to copyright restrictions this space shall primarily be a reading recommendation site; although, materials that are not constrained by copyright will be posted here as eBooks.
Herstory (the story of Africa), did not begin with slavery.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
In 1964, UNESCO launched the elaboration of the General History of Africa with a view to remedy the general ignorance on Africa’s history. The challenge consisted of reconstructing Africa’s history, freeing it from racial prejudices ensuing from slave trade and colonization, and promoting an African perspective.
UNESCO therefore called upon the then utmost African and non African experts. These experts’ work represented 35 years of cooperation between more than 230 historians and other specialists, and was overseen by an International Scientific Committee which comprised two-thirds of Africans.
The result was the elaboration of the General History of Africa into eight volumes (Phase I of the project). This huge task, completed in 1999, had a great impact in Africa and, beyond, within the scientific and academic circles and is considered as a major contribution to the knowledge of Africa’s history and historiography.
This groundbreaking work was the first of its type to present the entire history of the African continent. The collection sheds light on the pre-colonial era and interweaves Africa’s destiny with the rest of humanity’s, examining its interaction with other continents and the role of Africans in the dialogue between civilizations. The entire collection is published in eight volumes:
- Volume I – Methodology and African Prehistory
- Volume II – Ancient Civilizations of Africa
- Volume III – Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century
- Volume IV – Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century
- Volume V – Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
- Volume VI – Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s
- Volume VII – Africa under Colonial Domination 1880-1935
- Volume VIII – Africa since 1935
- Volume IX (pending)
- Volume X (pending)
- Volume XI (pending)
