Zeinab Badawi brings her retelling of African history to France
After selling 100,000 copies in English, the BBC broadcaster presents her 500-page survey, written to free the continent's history from a Western lens.
Zeinab Badawi, the British-Sudanese broadcaster known for her work at the BBC, is presenting her book on African history in France, according to Bibliobs in Le Nouvel Obs. The work, titled in English An African History of Africa, has already sold 100,000 copies in its English-language edition, the outlet reports.
Running to 500 pages, the book sets out to tell the continent's history on its own terms rather than through the framework imposed by European colonizers, Bibliobs writes. Badawi's argument, summed up in the title phrase quoted by the outlet, is that African history does not begin with the arrival of Europeans.
The Nouvel Obs piece does not specify further details of the French edition, including its publisher or a title in French.
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