The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Western Civilisation on Africa

De: Yemi Adesina

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Western Civilisation on Africa

By Yemi Adesina

“A powerful retelling of Africa’s history—not as a footnote to Western progress, but as a battlefield where empires clashed, cultures collided, and scars still shape the soul of a continent.”

In this bold and unflinching work, African historian Yemi Adesina delivers a sweeping, deeply personal, and rigorously researched exploration of one of the most complex and contested relationships in human history: Africa and Western civilisation.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Western Civilisation on Africa is not merely a history book—it is a reckoning. It is a mirror held up to both West and Africa, reflecting uncomfortable truths, buried legacies, and enduring hopes. It tells the story not through the lens of charity or victimhood, but through clarity, courage, and unshaken African agency.

With the precision of a historian and the soul of a griot, Adesina navigates centuries of contact—violent and visionary—between Europe and Africa. He re-centres Africa in its own story, beginning not with colonisation, but with the rise of ancient civilisations, scientific ingenuity, philosophical traditions, and spiritual systems that predated and, in many ways, rivalled the so-called “Western world.”

The book explores:

• The empires of Mali, Kush, Axum, and Kemet, and the forgotten libraries of African knowledge

• The brutal mechanics of the transatlantic slave trade and its psychological aftermath

• The contradictions of colonialism—railways built for plunder, schools that taught inferiority, medicine that healed while undermining traditional systems

• How Western-controlled institutions like the IMF, World Bank, WTO, and Paris Club still shape Africa’s choices today

• The assassination of revolutionaries, the silencing of dissent, and the rise of puppet regimes under foreign patronage

• The rebirth of African pride through Pan-Africanism, Afrocentric education, and indigenous spiritual, scientific, and legal systems

Woven with African proverbs, searing analysis, and powerful storytelling, this book dismantles the myths of Western benevolence while refusing to surrender to bitterness. It does not romanticise Africa, nor demonise the West—it reveals the contradictions, the complexity, and the convergence of two worlds that have shaped each other, unequally but undeniably.

Whether you are a student, policymaker, activist, or a truth-seeker trying to understand the roots of today’s global imbalance, this book will educate, provoke, and inspire.

It reminds the world that Africa is not a passive recipient of history, but its co-architect—and that the next chapter, if it is to be just, must be written not for Africa, but with Africa.

“Until the lion tells its story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” – Zimbabwean proverb