Africa’s heritage is humanity’s – and it’s been overlooked for too long | Sada Mire

As an archaeologist, I am hoping my new project will connect the continent's people to the hidden history of their land

In my first class on an archaeology course at Lund University in Sweden, I stood out more than usual. It was not just that it was full of blond and blue-eyed students, more than in any other class I had ever attended - it was that archaeology is not a field that many migrants study.

Sada Mire is an archaeologist and incoming associate professor of heritage studies at UCL Institute of Archaeology. She is author of the book Divine Fertility