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Expanding world history and placing Africa in the world history narrative is the key to understanding our past and eliminating Eurocentric historical myths.
"You invite to your shores fugitives of oppression from abroad, honor them with banquets, greet them with ovations, cheer them, toast them, salute them, protect them, and pour out your money to them like water; but the fugitives from oppression in your own land you advertise, hunt, arrest, shoot, and kill." Frederick Douglas, 1852
"A liberal arts education can be very frustrating. It forces students to see multiple viewpoints and continually challenge their own. It removes the comfort of assuming there are "right" answers to big questions, that civilization moves in a linear fashion or that facts are facts no matter who looks at them. But it also introduces students to the pleasures of debate and the ever-expanding world of ideas. It opens doors, enabling the mind to go wherever it wants in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. It bends toward openness instead of containment."
Forbes, Nov 16, 2017
History has a Method and a Process
Contrary to the perception given by many politicians, news media outlets or other non-academic sources, Historians cannot just write what they want.
Similar to the scientific method, history also has a method, sets of rules for ethical and professional expectations, and a process to check and confirm accuracy.
Within the study of history, there is space for debate and differing interpretations but they are not opinions but arguments supported by evidence that can be reviewed and discussed.
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