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On October 17, 2025, UNESCO celebrated the completion of Volumes IX, X, and XI of the General History of Africa, a monumental work mobilizing over 230 scholars. Through this collective effort, the project offers a Pan-African and decolonized perspective on the continent’s history. Two founders of AFROSPECTIVES share their reflections on the intellectual and cultural challenges of this transformative endeavor.

On October 17, 2025, UNESCO celebrated the completion of Volumes IX, X and XI of the General History of Africa, a monumental collective project mobilizing over 230 scholars. In this essay, Afrospectives co-founder Ali Moussa Iye reflects on the intellectual and cultural challenges of this long endeavour, and on what this Pan-African, decolonized perspective means for future generations across Africa and its diasporas.