"We would benefit from remembering the Nigerian historian J F Ade Ajayi’s corrective that colonialism is an episode in African history, not its principal, much less sole, shaper."

Everything I've read by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò has been a gift. This is no exception.

(Opening preamble gives way to a rich body of #History; do stick with it.)

https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-precolonial-africa-is-vacuous-and-wrong