How Africa Developed Europe: A Review of Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango's deconstructing the HIS-STORY of Africa, Excavating Untold Truth and what ought to be done and Known

Abstract

As succinctly put by Achebe “The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in a very lurid terms. It is therefore, shrouded with fabrications, lies and above all, distortions that European bigots created in order to discredit Africa. For those who have the indigenous knowledge of the people would understand how the history Europe wrote about Africa is against academic tenets due to the fact that researching on somebody living; and publishing the findings without his or her consent is totally unethical. To make matters worse, these bigots fabricated such toxic versions that sadly though have been taken as truth while they actually are mere lies that sought to justify Europe`s criminality against Africa. This is very important due to the fact that wherever winners write history of their victims, they commit many injustices to the losers as it is in the case ofAfrica which needs to write the history of the loser. European bigots were able to dupe the world by fabricating all mendacities aboutAfrica; and got away with murder for a long time simply becauseAfricans did not rebut their “his-story”.