CfP Leeds 2018 - What ‘forgotten’ period? Reclaiming the Middle Ages for Africa

Call for Papers What ‘forgotten’ period? Reclaiming the Middle Ages for Africa International Medieval Congress University of Leeds, UK, 2-5 July 2018 Africa has always been a nexus of trade routes, its history entangled with the continents that surround it: Europe, Asia, and America. These connections and interactions, whether productive or brutal, have been reasonably well documented for the classical period as well as from the onset of modern colonialism, but a chronological blank spot ling..