Zeinab Badawi: Setting the record straight on African history

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Zeinab Badawi is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist and the President of SOAS University of London. Born in Sudan, she has worked in the British media for several decades. She has recently published her first book which promises to reshape our understanding of Africa. Zeinab tells James what led her to write her instant Sunday Times bestseller, An African History of Africa.

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0:50.5	And this week, Zayn Abadari, it's an interesting book that is hard to separate from the
0:54.8	interesting person. I speak of an African history of Africa, from the dawn of humanity to independence.
1:00.6	So a nice, easy project. Yes, I mean, it's quite a substantial book, but when I saw somebody had written a
1:08.4	history of the world and about the same size, I thought,
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