When studying ancient history or the culture of Africa I would look at it from an African perspective and not from an outside colonial view. I feel that too much of Africa’s history is told by non-Africans. Wrigley opposes the hypothesis by saying it is “perhaps the most notorious expression of the racialist interpretation which dominated studies of the African past d of the twentieth century” (Wrigley 189). Many interpretations of African societies from dated European views are very false. Western views depicted African groups as un-advanced wild savages. However, using actual archaeological evidence those inaccurate beliefs can be debunked. For example, it can be proved that many ancient African societies and cultures implemented iron technology
