Africa, the origin of civilization exchange study by Cheong, Su-Il, which he finally arrived after passing through continent roads and sea roads.
Cheong, Su-Il, an expert of the world civilization exchange studies, has arrived in Africa, the hometown of human civilization after passing through continent silk roads and sea silk roads. Since he first stepped down into Africa as a foreign student sponsored by the national government in 1995, he revisited Africa to think of this continent as the ‘end’ of ‘the perpendicular and horizontal world tour’ as well as the new ‘beginning’. He achieved his perpendicular and horizontal world tour for 18 years as a diplomatic representative of both China and North Korea and for 10 more years through the concentrative planning tour in Korea. It was his process of effort to break the existing theory that silk roads can embrace Eurasia continent only. And the story of Africa, the important scene to prove, is fully contained in this book, ‘Visit Africa, the Cradle of Civilization’. The publish of this book is all the more meaningful to commemorate 10th anniversary of establishment of Korea Institute of Civilization Exchange, which aims to collect and communicate the civilization exchange history to the public.
The author created this book after wandering every corner of Africa based on his fascination into the great ancient civilization and his strong will to overcome the shame caused by the exploitation by the western countries and slave trade. Through this one book, readers will be able to learn the ancient civilization history of Africa and the fighting history of African people to win independence against the western colonial ruling countries. In particular, this book is also the civilization traveling story full of humanism, containing the story about African leaders he met and experienced, his own feelings about Africa tour while he was young and how his feelings have changed to revisit Africa this time. This book leads us to look at African people not as the objects for exploitation but as the co-living neighbors, thereby anyone who has interests in Africa has to read this book.