For a long time, prejudices have prevented the world from uncovering the true history of Africa. According to the research first published in 1984 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Pioneers in this field, such as Leo Frobenius, Maurice Delafosse and Arturo Labriola tried to combat these prejudices in the first decades of the 20th century by studying African history objectively.
Despite their progress, prejudices stemming from colonization and the slave trade stuck around and bred contempt which distorted even our fundamental concepts of historiography. Africans still have had to live with the economic and psychological exploitation created by those prejudices till present.
As discovered by UNESCO, many non-African experts still relied on prejudices and failed to properly take into account the vast amount of oral tradition that holds the threads of African events contained within it. It was seen as worthless compared to sources such as The Iliad and Odyssey when discussing ancient Greece’s history; but unless prejudices can be left at the door, historians will never be able to acknowledge the efforts and contributions by Africans in building civilisations.
Prejudices based on racial stereotypes became deeply ingrained and so distorted history itself that it was almost impossible for historians to be objective without overcoming their prejudices. The psychological scars of economic oppression have yet to be fully healed even into the present day.
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