I disagree with the statement that African history came of age in the 1950s. African history started long before the twentieth century, it was unimportant to some eyes. For hundreds upon hundreds of years, Africa and its inhabitants were unnoticed and strange to the rest of the world. Countless traders, explorers and missionaries came from afar either by sea or land to possess some of Africa’s wealth whether it be gold or humans, but even in their reports and or documents, more mysterious about this land its people surfaced. Why do they look like that? Where did they come from? Even their ways of life and customs were being questioned. Finally, the European settlers concluded that the Africans were merely “savages,” or “inferior human beings”
