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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War Business_Gift_Guide But what role does luckRevealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the New World. Still others