History

A people without knowledge of their history is a like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey (paraphrased).

The Ishango Bone. Ancient African Maths.

The Ishango Bone is a powerful reminder that Africa led humans in mathematics, being much odler than any artefacts from elsewhere in the world.

Long before the Greeks, in the land of Kemet – known today as Ancient Egypt – people were already solving algebraic problems.