Retelling Africa's Story to the World.
True stories and inherited parables from African history, and what they teach founders, managers and leaders anywhere about building today.
Guest writers from anywhere are welcome: unsung heroes, inventions, legends, industry and the ideas that travel.
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History · Trade
In the late 3rd century, the African kingdom of Aksum began striking its own gold coins, something only a handful of powers on earth could do. Why a coin is really a promise.
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In 2012 a Timbuktu librarian and his volunteers smuggled hundreds of thousands of manuscripts past armed occupiers. What the rescue teaches us about knowledge today.
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In 1976 Haya elders in Tanzania rebuilt a furnace that made carbon steel, a technology 1,500 to 2,000 years old. Why does Africa still ship out the ore?
Read storyMindset · Education
A 5-tonne elephant stays tied to a tiny stake because it learned that trying was pointless. What that parable says about the habits our classrooms taught us.
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