European interest in Africa had given Africans themselves a wider range of lite

The fledging European men of 600 B.C. embarked on the civilized world, and learn some knowledge of the polytheistic gods; and then they worship them. They became estranged to the civilized way of the gods, and pursued a standard of life after their own uncivilized and unlearned  invented ways. For example; General History of Africa .1 editor J. KI-Zerbo; said the following: "The European attitude to their perceived, highly professional historians, archaeologists and anthropologists were greatest in civilized knowledge. But were rather the eccentricities of a self-taught,self-inspired genius, like Frobenius tended to confirm the academic historians in their view, that African history was not an acceptable field for their profession, and to divert attention from a good deal of serious work, that was being done during the colonial period. One factor of some importance was that the growth of the European interest in Africa had given Africans themselves a wider range of literacies in which to express their own concern for their own history. This was especially the case in West Africa, where the contact with Europeans had been longest and most consistent, and where-- especially perhaps in the zones which became British colonies-- a demand for European schooling was established by the early years of the nineteenth century. Just as the Islamized servants of Timbuktu had quickly set to write T'a'rikhs in Arabic, so by the later 19th century Africans who had become literate in the so-called Roman scrip, felt the need to set down what they knew of the histories of their peoples, before these were totally engulfed by the Europeans and their history.