@newslionsa: Can an empire be called “civilised” if conquest was central to how it gained power? Pan-African scholar Professor James Small challenges the way Greece and Rome are celebrated as foundations of Western civilisation while their histories of warfare, conquest and domination receive far less scrutiny. Small argues that African contributions to human civilisation have often been undervalued while European empires became the benchmark for what the world was taught to call “civilised”. Should civilisation be measured by what a society built, or also by how it treated the people it conquered? #AfricaWakeUp #JamesSmall #Africa #Africans #History