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Ancient history - African Indaba, My Children by Credo Mutwa
A treasure trove of African folk tales and tribal history that
reveals a very different narrative to the one the "white man"
created about the people of the Dark Continent. Also very useful for understanding
the African's perspective of his imperalist conquerers, if you can bear to look it in the face without flinching.
It was dubbed "a work of genius" by the Sunday Times.
Ancient history - Indian Searching for Vedic India by Devamitra Swami
One of the first authors to show that the ancient Vedic
literatures of India describe a worldwide civilisation that flourished
at a time when modern historians were still insisting that humans were
ignorant hunter gatherers.
The Quest for the Origins of the Vedic Culture by Edwin Bryant
Despite its mild and objective tone, this book was one of the final nails in the coffin
in the Aryan invasion debate. Since then, only the linguists still
stubbornly cling to the idea of an Aryan influx, albeit in the more watered down version of a slowly
trickling migration rather than an invasion.
