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Yours have might be different from mine, but I just remember being underwhelmed and bored in most of it. We learned about stuff I personally found interesting like the Vietnam War, WW2 and resistance to Apartheid. Yet it all seemed watered down and didn't provide enough context, especiay from the SA perspective. Like we learned about the Vietnam War and the Internal and external anti-Apartheid movement but hardly covered the cooperation between liberation movements, the Border War or Southern African civilizations before colonialism. Most of the stuff I've learned about SA history came after graduating High School through books. It's ironic how the ANC government isn't providing a better history curriculum considering their significant place in the domestic and international fight against Apartheid.
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I recently have been reading books about colonialism and its effects and I would love some books centered on recent African history. I'm open to fiction and non fiction recommendations. Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, South African Apartheid or anything similar. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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Great ancient empires like Axum or the Nubians (which I believe was part of north Africa) have very little about them. I attributed that to the lack of written sources but it seems we know as much if not more about Mesoamerican civilizations despite their remoteness compared to the old world and lack of written records as well. Whenever I look up great African civilizations outside of Egypt or north Africa, there’s almost nothing. Even relatively modern ones like the kingdom of Kongo or Ethiopia (which if I’m not mistaken has perhaps the most information about it). My question mostly concerns the civilizations during classical antiquity.
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