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The Africans Who Civilized Rome – Jahdey
It is trite to say that the Romans were no great innovators of culture. They mostly copied the so-called “Hellenistic” and Egyptian high culutres. Yes, Rome may have conquered physically but she was conquered culturally. I will show you why. The religion of the Romans, their gods, their rites originally came from Egypt. There were…
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The Impact of Trauma on the African Identity
In “Independence or Dependence: Psychological Colonization in the French Caribbean” one of the topics that I discuss is a poem titled “The Slave’s Lament” by Haitian poet Massillon Coicou. The poem is interesting for me because, as I explain in that essay, the slave in this poem comes to curse his own blackness rather than curse the…
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The African matriarcal tradition
We grow up in countries within the continent and almost everywhere we see women regularly beaten. Their word is devalued, their opinions are belittled. They are constantly judged, tirelessly defined – regardless of their success in society – by the fact to be married or not. They do not receive inheritance and are most likely…
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The ‘positive role’ of colonization : deconstructing a lie
‘The colonizers usually say that it was they who brought us into history. Today we will show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them in their train, right at the back, in the train of their history’ Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), father of the independence of Guinea Bissau and…
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10 Black Scholars Who Debunked Eurocentric Propaganda
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop Senegalese-born Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) received his doctorate degree from the University of Paris and was a brilliant historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician and one of the most prominent and proficient Black scholars in the history of African civilization. Contrary to the long-standing European myth of a Caucasian Egypt, Diop’s studies into origins…
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