The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...

South African history is often simplified down to colonisation and apartheid. In truth, this is a restrictive view of the ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

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The General History of Africa (GHA) is a flagship initiative of the UNESCO Operational Strategy for Priority Africa (2022–2029). It seeks to fundamentally reshape how African history is taught and ...

The Emancipation Support Committee (ESC), which for years has been calling for “true” African history to be taught to the nation’s children, has not spent a single cent from the millions given to them ...

Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) are celebrating the centennial of what began in 1926 as Negro History Week. Founded by Dr. Carter ...