Autumn Lecture Series 2024: An African History of Africa
(Monday 11th November 2024)
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Zeinab Badawi is an award winning broadcaster, journalist and filmmaker. She is President of SOAS, University of London, and is an honorary fellow of her alma mater, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Born in Sudan she has worked in the British media for several decades. Zeinab is a recipient of the President’s Medal of the British Academy, a Patron of the United Nations Association UK and on the boards of Arts, Humanities and Research Council, MINDS (the Mandela Institute for Development Studies), the International Crisis Group and Afrobarometer. She was previously chair of the Royal African Society. In her inspirational new book An African History of Africa, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history from the very origins of the species, through ancient civilisations and remarkable kings and queens to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty different countries to write her book she unearths through the voices of Africans themselves the buried epic histories of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet.
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