An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

About Zeinab Badawi

Zeinab Badawi is an award-winning broadcaster journalist and filmmaker. She is President of SOAS University of London and is an honorary fellow of her alma mater St Hildas College Oxford. Born in Sudan she has worked in the British media for several decades. Zeinab is a recipient of the Presidents Medal of the British Academy a Patron of the United Nations Association UK and is on the boards of the Arts Humanities and Research Council MINDS (the Mandela Institute for Development Studies) the International Crisis Group and Afrobarometer. She was previously Chair of the Royal African Society. An African History of Africa is her first book.