![]() ![]() ![]() Here, in a blistering account, Samuel shows how German philosopher Georg Hegel – one of the most influential figures of 19 th century philosophy – wilfully misinterpreted first-hand accounts of the Asante kingdom from the 18 th century. His prolific output on pre-colonial African history can be found on his blog AfricanHistoryExtra, which as a collective body of extraordinary scholarship puts the lie to the still widely held belief that – in the words of esteemed University of Oxford historian Hugh Trevor-Rope in the 1960s – there is no African history, “only the history of Europeans in Africa. Isaac Samuel is an independent researcher whose work focuses on African history and economics.
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