By Staff Reporter

President Mnangagwa said the recently launched “The Africa Factbook” will go a long way in busting colonial myths which denied African agency in World histories, inventions and discoveries.

The President said this yesterday while signing copies of The Africa Factbook and accompanying letters which will be distributed to the heads of state and government of the 54 African Union countries.

The Africa Factbook produced under the theme “Busting the Myths” was edited by Ghanaian pan Africanist scholar and former editor of the New African, who is now a citizen of Zimbabwe, Baffour Ankomah, is Africa’s first ever publication that tells the African story from an Afrocentric perspective.

 “The myth that black people of Africa have no history. The myth that the Great Zimbabwe walls were not built by us indigenous local people. The myth that Africans have never invented or discovered anything. All these and other myths are solidly busted by scientific facts, impecable sources and astute scholarship.

“I therefore dispatch this book and the accompanying comradely letters to my fellow Heads of State and Government within the African Union as Zimbabwe’s contribution to this Pan-African theme that seeks to revive our spirit and pride in our great history and bright future,” said President Mnangagwa after signing copies of the book at State House yesterday.

The Africa Factbook which is meant to be an educational tool across the African continent is also going to be used as a direct response to years of misinformation and disinformation against Africa by outsiders and the global media empires.

The research for the book was largely Zimbabwe led and driven .The researchers included Alexander Madanha Rusero, Dr Lucky Bangiza, Dr Sambulo Ndlovu, Ellen Maguranyanga, Robson Sharuko and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki, among other researchers.

The publication also has special introduction by President Mnangagwa and a statement from current African Union Chairperson and South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa.