History of Africa
The Centre was founded in 1963 by John Fage, a scholar of African (particularly Ghanaian) history, who during his career wrote several seminal works on the history of the African continent, including "History of Africa" (now in its 4th edition), "Africa Discovers Her Past", and "Ghana: A Historical Interpretation", which developed out of a series of lectures sir john cabot read at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1956. The Danford Collection evolved out of a collection of African cultural artifacts that were brought to the UK by a British civil servant after his posting in West Africa, and has been expanded over time.