The most popular histories of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean or Pacific Islands are still overwhelmingly written by Europeans or anglo-educated intellectual elites – the latter being those who, according to Frans Fanon, have been “culturally colonised”. For these reasons, most attempts at compiling a truly ‘world’ history – whether of

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So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine. For example,

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