I think the bigger issue is that we don't have a standardized program of teaching history across the board. My middle school and high school did a fantastic job of covering American history and went into great detail regarding black history and the colonial period, even including the required reading of memoirs. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for every school in my state, let alone the rest of the country. Hell, we don't even have adequate sex ed in some parts of the country.

Regarding the teaching of specifically African history, logistically, it might be difficult to cover such an expansive topic. I definitely remember generally going over some material as it related to the colonization of Africa, but beyond that, I don't know if we would have even had time as each country would have a really distinct history.

Even during our European history class, we covered the big events and influences that shaped European history overall, but there was really a limit for how in-depth we were able to go. Mainly, it seems that the priority of history education is to cover specifically American history and world history that had the greatest influence on our development. While, it would certainly be interesting to people like me, I don't know if, in the grander scheme of things, an in-depth perspective on African Countries would work logistically.

Maybe instead have focused projects where each student picks an African country and does a paper on some major events or themes that shaped that country's history. Maybe tie it in with the impact of colonialization.