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Africa Unveiled: Amat Levin: “Black History: Die vergessene Geschichte Afrikas” Deutsch/English
In over seventy chapters, Levin recounts familiar and unfamiliar stories of Black people from both sides of the African continent, ranging from ancient Egypt to Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti. More than 3,000 years of African history are covered in over 500 pages. But how can one do justice to a continent that now comprises 54 countries, not to mention the history of Black people in the US, the Caribbean, and South America? In über siebzig Kapiteln erzählt Levin - vom Alten Ägypten bis zum Afrobeat-Musiker Fela Kuti - bekannte und unbekannte Geschichten von Schwarzen Menschen diesseits und jenseits des afrikanischen Kontinents. Auf über 500 Seiten wird mehr als 3000 Jahre afrikanische Geschichte verhandelt. Doch wie wird man einem Kontinent…
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An Uncomfortable Truth: Howard W. French: Born in Blackness – Afrika und die Entstehung der modernen Welt_deutsch_englisch
Africa and the Making of the Modern World, now published in German by Klett-Cotta, is to be seen as an important contribution in the reinterpretation of historical facts and contexts. The striking thing is not only the many facts that French presents. It becomes clear relatively early in the reading that it is above all the concealment or negation of facts and contexts that have made possible a revelation of one of the darkest chapters of Western history. A central thesis of the book is that Africa with its resources of gold and forced laborers, over twelve million slaves and the market for textiles, made an unheard-of rise of the European seafaring nations such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands,…
