Adventure Quote by John Henrik Clarke

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

“Until now (1960, date of the first edition), the history of Black Africa has always been written with dates as dry as laundry lists,…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa...

— Beryl Markham

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how,…

— Chris Abani

“History buried becomes history repeated. A whole generation of Africans have been denied the truth of their own history, and so we do not…

— Shailja Patel

There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part…

— Lynn Nottage

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

— Paul Kagame

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

— Li Keqiang

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates

“History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the history taught…

— Patrice Lumumba

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed...

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

— Komla Dumor