Motherland
eBook - ePub

Motherland

A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Motherland

A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity

About this book

A groundbreaking exploration of 500,000 years of African history, cultures and identity.

Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraordinary heritage. He tackles the question many people of African descent ask - Who are we? Where do we come from? What defines us? And it explores how knowledge of this deeper history might affect current understandings of African identity.

Through thematically-linked chapters that explore aspects of African identity from nomadic culture and matriarchal society to beliefs about the afterlife and the tradition of oral storytelling, and interwoven with Luke's own experiences of exploring his Ghanaian family history and his personal questions of identity, this is a comprehensive, relevant and beautifully told new history of Africa, and how it has shaped the world we know today.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781639368846

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Map
  4. Dedication
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Our Lost Millennia
  7. Chapter 2: How the Dead Still Live
  8. Chapter 3: Queenmothers and Warrior-Queens
  9. Chapter 4: We Are More Than Skin Colour
  10. Chapter 5: Merchants, Traders and Navigators
  11. Chapter 6: Rappers, Singers and Storytellers
  12. Chapter 7: Story of the Spider-God
  13. Chapter 8: Wisdom of the Ancients
  14. Chapter 9: The Invention of Racism
  15. Chapter 10: An African End to Slavery
  16. Conclusion: Motherland
  17. Photographs
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. About the Author
  20. Notes
  21. Select Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. List of Images
  24. Image Descriptions
  25. Copyright