devoney's review
4.0
I didn’t know what to expect from this book but I am pleasantly surprised, it’s incredibly well researched and the amount of work put into unpacking racist assumptions about Africa is *chefs kiss*. This whole book works to dismantle three Eurocentric ideas 1) that Africa wasn’t “civilized,” 2) that there wasn’t “sophisticated” culture which they “proved” with thinking 3) there wasn’t a written language. Mans successfully chucked all three ideas in the trash where they belong. So yeah, worth the read.
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