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Africa, The Cradle Of World Scholarship: A Personal Encounter With Inherited Wisdom – The Standard Newspaper

Dr Lamins Janneh It is often said that history is written by the victors. But for Africa, much of its story has been deliberately unwritten. In the dominant global narrative, the origins of formal education are typically traced to European institutions such as Oxford and Bologna, with scant or no recognition of African scholarly systems that predate them by centuries. Yet when we examine the full arc of human civilisation, Africa emerges not as …
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The Standard Gambia broke the news in Gambia on Thursday, July 17, 2025.
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