A timely call to rethink how African history and knowledge can reclaim space in global narratives

Informed, provocative, and hopeful — Adebajo’s work resists reduction, embracing Africa’s plurality and persistent spirit

The Congolese philosopher, poet, novelist and bold advocate of African knowledge has died in the US where he lived and taught at Sandford and Duke universities since 1979

This is an edited extract of Henning Melber’s The Long Shadow of German Colonialism.