On this week's episode of the Parley in All Blue Podcast, Mark sits down with Howard W. French, an author and a professor of journalism at Columbia University. Today's discussion delves deep into Professor French's book: Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. 

Highlights from the episode:

• Price of Gold 
• Mansa Musa
• Europe in 1471
• The Fort of El Mina
• Portugal & West  Africa 

Resources: 

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

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