Announcing My New Book — “Kingdoms of Africa” (by Tosin Adeoti)

For years, I have been fascinated by how little most people, even Africans, know about the continent’s pre-colonial past. Our history is often told in fragments. Usually, you have a few names, a few dates, and then a long silence until colonisation begins.

But before that silence, Africa was a world of empires. It was Mali and its golden wealth. Benin and its art. Ethiopia and its unbroken royal lineage. The Zulu and their military brilliance. Civilisations that traded across oceans, built cities of stone, and preserved knowledge that shaped the world.

That curiosity grew into research, and that research became a manuscript. Today, it has become a book.

Kingdoms of Africa: Exploring the Continent’s Pre-Colonial Pasts

Spanning over 600 pages, Kingdoms of Africa uncovers stories of leadership, trade, innovation, and belief systems that defined the continent long before colonial borders. It tells these stories clearly and without academic distance, making history accessible to everyone.

Readers will meet the Bunyoro doctors who performed antiseptic surgeries in 1879, the Ashanti warriors who defended their Golden Stool, the Oromo innovators who developed democratic systems centuries ago, and the Ethiopian monk whose discovery of coffee changed the world.

Each page is an invitation to rediscover Africa; not as a place defined by what was taken, but by what was built.

This project is deeply personal to me. It’s a love letter to a continent often misunderstood and a call to see its past with fresh eyes.

Kingdoms of Africa is now open for orders.

Non-Nigerians:

• Physical copy — https://www.lulu.com/shop/tosin-adeoti/kingdoms-of-africa/paperback/product-659wwry.html
• Electronic copy — https://selar.com/78824382j6

Nigerians:

• Physical copy — https://wa.me/2349035100044
• Electronic copy —  https://selar.com/78824382j6

Thank you to everyone who has followed my work, shared my articles, and encouraged this journey.

This book is for you.