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CONNECTED GLOBAL HISTORY AND SHARED FUTURES FRAMED THROUGH AFRICA
How networks of movement, power, and capital forged the modern world
This book introduces original frameworks that reveal the structures beneath the stories, giving you the clarity to help shape what comes next.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Orise is a Nigerian-Canadian architect, systems thinker, and lateral problem-solver based in Canada. Trained in architecture (MSc) and business administration (MBA), he brings a structural lens to global history: asking not just what happened, but why systems form, persist, and transform.
This book emerged from a simple realization: nobody taught him this history in a coordinated way growing up. So he built the framework himself — and now he's sharing it. Connected Global History (working title) is his answer to the fragmented narratives we inherit, and an invitation to see the world as it was actually made: not through isolation, but in through human movement.
THE WORLD WAS MADE FROM MOVEMENT: SOME WILLFUL, OTHERS PAINFUL.
For too long, global history has been told in separate chapters: continents rising and falling in isolation, modernity emerging from a single center. But the record tells a different story.
Connected Global History and Shared Futures Framed Through Africa repositions Africa not as backdrop, but as connective tissue: a civilizational force whose networks of movement, knowledge, power, and capital helped shape the architecture of the prehistoric and modern world.
From ancient trade routes linking three continents to diasporic networks that transformed economies and cultures across oceans, African people, ideas, and resources were central to global transformation.
Understanding this connected past isn't about replacing one center with another. It's about recognizing that the world was made through exchange, encounter, and entanglement — and that the future will be too.
If the past was connected, the future must be shared.
Join the WAITLIST to follow the journey.
THIS BOOK IS FOR READERS WHO REFUSE A FRAGMENTED HISTORY
Purpose-Driven For Readers Ready to See the Full Picture
Thinkers and global citizens who seek histories that reframe how we understand the world
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Members of the African and Afro-diasporic world looking for deeper civilizational grounding and wanting to reconnect scattered stories into a fuller narrative
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Africans realizing how little was taught about the diaspora's journey — and ready to change that
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Those who've thought, "I'm not of African descent, but I want to understand. Where do I start?"
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Educators, researchers, and practitioners seeking rigorous material that goes beyond surface-level discourse
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Global citizens who understand that the future cannot be built on partial memory
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Anyone whose partner, friend, or colleague talks about this constantly — this might be your entry point into the conversation
BY THE FINAL PAGE, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO...
Build structural consciousness and civic awareness that goes beyond headlines
Decode how global systems of power were built, and see your place within them
​Identify the economic and religious infrastructures that sustained empire
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See the African diaspora as connective tissue of the modern world
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Understand why some systems of enslavement endured longer than others
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Recognize how memory, language, and identity survive erasure
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Think globally about belonging, sovereignty, and the future
SEE WHAT SOME EXPECTANT READERS ARE SAYING.
Dr. Amara Okonkwo —
Professor of Global History, University of Cape Town
"Finally, a framework that doesn't treat Africa as footnote. This is the connective history we've been waiting for — rigorous, expansive, and long overdue."
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Sofia Martínez —
High School Student, Barcelona
"My history classes always felt like they were missing something. Now I know what it was. I'm counting down the days."
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Fatima Al-Rashid —
Cultural Policy Researcher, Dubai
"Orise is doing what few historians dare: recentering the narrative without rage. This is scholarship that builds bridges, not just critiques them."
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WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE BY BEING A PART OF THE BEGINNING...
Early updates as the manuscript and key chapters evolve
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Select chapter previews shared before the public release
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Private research reflections drawn directly from archival work
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Priority notice when pre-orders open and publication milestones are reached
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Access to the core frameworks shaping the architecture of the book
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A curated reading list of works that deeply influenced this project
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Occasional short essays expanding themes not fully explored in the final text​​
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This is more than a launch list.
It’s a front-row seat to the making of the work.
