Colonial contact history unites African cultures with many others worldwide

Evidence

It looks beyond Africa to see that African cultures share something crucial with many other cultures around the world; they share a history of colonial contact with its inevitable material effects, its conflicts, its complicities and oppositions, its filiations and affiliations. They share these things regardless of the radical specificity and differences between local cultures themselves. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3438