Trevor-Roper denied that Africa had any history at all.

Evidence

An examination of Trevor-Roper’s lecture indicates that Obichere’s accusation was a bit on the generous side: “Perhaps, in the future, there will be some African history to teach. But at present there is none: there is only the history of the Europeans in Africa. The rest is darkness, like the history of pre-European, pre-Columbian America. And darkness is not a subject of history. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1700

Categorization

• XREF: A canonical artifact of Eurocentric historiography; connects to Robinson’s thesis that the Black radical tradition was written out of Western history.