THE BOOK
AN AFRICAN HISTORY OF AFRICA: FROM THE DAWN OF HUMANITY TO INDEPENDENCE
BY ZEINAB BADAWI
A ground-breaking debut, Zeinab Badawi charts the history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet. This seminal book is the culmination of seven years of research by Zeinab, travelling through thirty African countries and interviewing countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers to unearth a fascinating and epic history told through the voices of the Africans themselves.
ZEINAB BADAWI
Zeinab Badawi is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist and filmmaker. She is President of SOAS University of London and is an honorary fellow of her alma mater St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Born in Sudan, she has worked in the British media for decades including co-presenting Channel 4 News alongside Jon Snow before joining BBC News, where she interviewed some of the world’s most notable personalities and politicians on the BBC’s Hardtalk and Global Questions. Zeinab is a recipient of the President’s Medal of the British Academy, a Patron of the United Nations Association UK, and is on the boards of the Arts, Humanities and Research Council, the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, the International Crisis Group and Afrobarometer.
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