Stories from Afrika

As an African, have you ever heard the statement that Africans were illiterate before Europeans came here? Or that there were no reading and writing systems before the arrival of the white man to the shores of Africa? I bet you might have heard that. So, the question is, were ancient Africans illiterate? Were there […]

If you grew up in Africa, one of the stories about Europeans that you must have been told as kids was the various places that the Europeans discovered in Africa. And of such stories is the story of Mungo Park, the young Scottish doctor and explorer who we were told discovered the River Niger. But […]