Hasan emphasized a central part of his pedagogy: teaching his students that Africa’s history did not begin with slavery. “You must,” he said, “present how Africa was before slavery, and how it is during slavery, and how it is after slavery.” Hasan continued: “If you want to understand the economic situation in Africa, you have to understand what happened during slavery and how slavery has got a huge impact, because slavery has deprived us of the first input for development, which is the human force. We have to understand how colonization impacted negatively on our situation, and also how
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