This week on the Trend Lines podcast, Howard French joins WPR’s Judah Grunstein to discuss his latest book, “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War,” which restores Africa and Africans to their proper place of centrality in the history of Europe’s rise to global dominance.

This week on Trend Lines, Howard French joins WPR’s Judah Grunstein to discuss his fifth and latest book, “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War,” which argues that almost everything about the familiar narrative of Europe’s Age of Exploration and Empire is wrong.