"A reframing of the oft-misunderstood history of the last 500 years in southern Africa In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, ..."
"Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years."
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered Southern African Precedents and Prospects : 500 Year Initiative, 2007 Conference Proceedings Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-86814-635-2, ISBN: 1-86814-635-9
Connecting Continents Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World by Krish Seetah 428 Pages, Published 2018 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-4640-9, ISBN: 0-8214-4640-1