GREAT TRADING EMPIRES OF AFRICA explores the hidden histories of ancient Africa as told by Africans themselves and by scholars and students of Africa.
We shed new light on Africa’s relations with its early trading partners:
to the North – Europe and Byzantium
to the East – China, Persia India
to the West – Brazil the Caribbean and the Americas
The project takes us on a journey through time from the origins of human art and trade to the great trading civilisations of Ancient Africa .
A rich history that has been wilfully forgotten, obliterated by the twin scourges of slavery and colonialism.
