Part 8 of 12 in the unabridged audiobook of Chancellor Williams’ classic study of African history. Chapter 8, “The Resurrection and the Life: Case Studies by States,” opens with the empire of Ghana, which withstood the advancing Sahara for more than two thousand years. Williams recounts the arrival of Arab and European geographers, the destruction of Black scholars’ works, and the flowering of learning in West Africa that was cut short by the Moors. A chapter on African achievement and its interruption, offered to the readers of Black Boys In Crisis.