Jerome Kuseh’s Reviews > Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War > Status Update

Africans as central to the creation of the modern world. Given the popular telling of history, this seems unthinkable. However, Howard French draws on a wealth of overlooked research and accounts to make a compelling argument that the modern world as we know it would have been impossible but for the exploitation of African people. Outrageous though that this needs to be even argued, no one did it better than French.