BORN IN BLACKNESS: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

The history of Africa has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity? French does just that, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy and the fulfillment of so-called enlightenment ideals. Photos.