African History

While watching the video, Nature of a Continent, by Ali Mazrui the narrator mentions that Africa has three heritages: Traditional, Islam, and West. He then goes on to give examples of each of these heritages and how they originated. He states that nature is the most African force on the continent. He also sees Africa as the “cradle of mankind,” using the discovery of the earliest human remains as the basis of this ideology. He …

…settlers that live in the highlands of Kenya. The have the most rapid cultural impacts of all. I believe that Africa has gone through a lot as far as trying to establish its history and identity. Even though progress has been made as to seeing the continent for what it has done, historians still talk mainly of the outside influences on the continent and how those influences have changed the continent for better or worse.