Background Quote by Hervey Allen

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history…

— Charles Darwin

“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans emerged and began to extend themselves into the broader world of Africa and Asia during…

— J.A. Rogers

I think you try to extrapolate from the early civilizations and cultures of the continent, kind of looking for unique ways they set themselves…

— Joe Robert Cole

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed…

— Franz Boas

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa,…

— Harry Johnston

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves…

— Fred D'Aguiar

National borders have always been arbitrarily drawn by people, and in ancient times there was a lot of exchange of people and culture with…

— Shinichiro Watanabe

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or…

— Frank Crowninshield

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the…

— John Henrik Clarke

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences…

— Jared Diamond

In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it…

— Jared Diamond