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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [QB] [QUOTE] The issue here is that Ancient Egypt being a cradle for civilization, makes it a centre of debate. [/QUOTE] The premise that AE is the cradle of civlization is simply wrong. Many areas across the world developed independent civlizations without assiatance from other people. Much older cultures exist in Syria,India,and Mesopotamia that are much older than AE civlization. People tend to forget this,but I have heard arguments wrongly that the AE civlization goes back 15,000 years which is not probable. Recently,scientist have found a much older civlization in Iran that precedes Sumer and Indus Valley in India. I understand that white supremist from the 19/20th century have wrongly snubbed Africans without a civlization. Most of it is due to gross negliance of African histography . You have to study civlization for cultural reasons,and in many ways some western Africans were much better than AE soceity. Western Africans like the Igbo had a democratic goverment,Yoruba people in Nigeria had a structured urbanized culture with organized skill guilds,and most Western/Central Africans developed iron metalurgy. I also think people are under the false implications that connecting yourself to civlization will help you progress. Not true. The Japanaese people had no complex civlization prior to Americans,but yet they are amung the leading people in many fields of academics in the world. [QUOTE]This unfortunately explains why other African History is overlooked by many black Americans. This has been largely contributed by the national standard curricula, and in a big way by more Hollywood movies concerning Ancient Egypt rather than other ancient African cultures.[/QUOTE] The reponsibility of this is on the parents of the child,but I agree that general pre-colonial African history should be incorporated into the overall curricala of the school system. However, people should take the initive upon themselves to learn more about their past. I have never expected people to tell me about my ancestors and neither should you. [QUOTE]I whole-heartedly agree with you when it comes to this. There are other important historical events of Africa, that black Americans should take the initiative of studying, and not just focus on Ancient Egypt![/QUOTE] Not saying that black Americans should confine themselves to just certain areas of Africa,but it might be rewarding if one looks even within America to certain communities like the Gullah for some ties to their past. Lots of African traits survive in rural areas in the south. I have studied this myself out of curiosity and came across a good book called ''Africanism in America'' by Joseph Halloway. Matter of fact, I am thrilled that African Americans have taken the chance to study AE civlization and because of their passion might be able to establish many new understnadings that their couterparts might not understand. Let me just say though that it must be done in a scholary way with a panel of review from fellow peers and not hyperbole in unacademic settings. [QUOTE]By the way, I have noticed that most black Americans tend see history of slavery in a distorted way. Most have this view that Africans were just "passive" individuals who helplessly stood by and allowed their fellow Africans to be kidnapped and taken away to the Americas and Europe for slave labour.[/QUOTE] Well, this is where the collective Africa approach comes from a concept that developed through the racist western and colonial sphere . Africans never say themselves as a unified groups,but as a collective of different cultural communities. Only when disaporian Africans in the west because of a common factor in racism develop a unified concept,but prior to this intervention Africans never saw themselves as a unified entity. To an African at this time in Western Africa an Igbo was an Igbo and a Hausa was a Hausa. [QUOTE] In reality there were many significant struggles of resistance before those Westerners got a hold of the African captives as slaves. If one digs deep enough in history, one would realize this. It brings me back to the reason, why black Americans should diligently study other African History![/QUOTE] Yes,and many are well documented by Captian ship logs. BTW,not all European exploer accounts in Africa were racist. Some around the 1600's were quite positive. Read Mungo Puck,Clapperton,and Olfret Dapper. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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