West African History Research Paper

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In general, I was able to uncover numerous things that I was unaware about the history of West African society and how they arrive to America. Therefore, in this assignment I will discuss some of these surprising events. First, I didn’t know that Africa was to believe the first place humans existed because in reality when television talks about history they always start with Egypt and off to Israel. Therefore, I was surprise to believe there is documentation to support this fact as we learned in the text that, “Modern archaeological research has established that Africa was the birthplace of human life” (Robin, Kelley & Lewis, 2005, p. 4). Even though, there is no exact date of their existence, but fossils dated back two million years shows

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