Black history has much to reveal about our ancestors – and ourselves | Sada Mire
by Sada Mire from on (#41VY8)
In pursuit of a peaceful society, it is important that we record all perspectives of our complex human story
Black History Month, which runs through October, is trying to address a problem. That problem is, how to move the study of black history away from focusing solely on slavery and colonialism so that we don't end up with an unbalanced knowledge of the past, and inadvertently confirm rather than fight prejudices about black people and people of African descent. This is why films like Black Panther, with its depiction of the fictional state, Wakanda, captured the imagination of so many: it imagined what a sub-Saharan African kingdom free from colonialism could have become.
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