A great deal of African history and culture has intentionally been made to be obscure. Civilizations existed in Africa long before European colonization. From the African continent, great civilizations have risen to glory. Through its peoples, astounding cultures have grown and flourished. Yet many myths remain about Africa. We can’t pretend that Africans have no history as if we just dropped from the sky argued the great Chinua Achebe and always sharing this Igbo proverb: “If you do not know where the rain began to beat you then you cannot tell where you dried your body.” As in if you don’t know where you come from then you cannot tell where you are going. Scholars have concluded that civilization developed in West Africa as much as one thousand years earlier than they once believed. We now know that Africa had an Iron Age culture with cities and trade routes[…]