African Scholars Studying Africa

decolonization is about keeping all the progress that archaeology has made in terms of material sciences and learning how to date things. And i think this actually a great need for it. If you look at the number of african scholars studying africa,. it is scandalously low, whether it's in economics or in history. I learned during my reporting that just three % of the papers that are published in four of the most prostidious history journals of the last 20 years were about africa. Only about a tenth has authors based in in the continent. We're missing out on new perspectives, new angles, new ideas, so long as afAfrican scholars who are during well class research are