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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [qb] ^ If so, then he is arguably failing to keep up with current scholarship. Can you reference me to *recent* writings from Obenga that elaborate upon his rationale? [/qb][/QUOTE]Dr. Theophile Obenga Egypt: Africa's Oldest Daughter Dr. Theophile Obenga San Francisco State University, CA Full text: Not available Last modified: January 28, 2006 Abstract The question of the ancient Egypt connection with the rest of Black Africa was opened to an intensive discussion involving opposing points of view in 1974 during an international symposium organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held in Cairo and Aswan. Present were more than 20 of the best Egyptologists in the world. all the outstanding scholars and specialist at the Cairo symposium, although they tok opposing sides about other items, came, in sipte of that, to agreement regarding the following significant points. First, Egyptian language as revealed in hyeroglyphic, hieratic, and demonic writings, and Coptic, that is, the old Egyptian language in its latest developments, as written in the Greek-Coptic script, and modern African languages, as spoken nowadays in Black Africa, constitute the same linguistic community broken into several parts. Comparative grammar and the method of internal reconstruction allow scholar to reconstruct certain features of the language spoken by the original, unseparated community, on the basis of corresponding features of the descent languages. The comparative method in historical linguistics is still a valid method for defining change and determining earlier forms of two or more related languages to prove their precise relationship. Technically speaking, no scholar, using the method of internal reconstruction, has proven objectively that the Semitic, Egyptian, and Berber languages are descended from a common ancestor.[b] The so-called "Afro-Asiatic family," or "chamito-Semitic family," which has gained wide circulation, has no scientific foundation at all. There is no proof of an "Afro-Asiatic historical grammar."[/b] One may recall here what Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) called "the prejudice of the prestige of the multitude," that is to say, the supposition that what everyone says must be true. In the human sciences "scientifc" circles often make claims not based on any objectively verifiable grounds but rather just on this kind of prejudice. Second, ancient Egypt was a flourishing ancient kingdom of Northeast Africa, located in the Nile Valley, nowise in "Asia Minor" or in the "Near East." the Egyptian civilization of the Pharaonic period (3400-343 BC) was intrinsically, that is, in its essential nature, an African civilization, on account of its spirit, character, behavior, culture, thought, and deep feeling. As we know, Georg Wilheim Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), who was not a historian, but a great philosopher, stated in his lectures delivered in the winter of 1830-1 on the philosophical history of the world: "Africa is no historical part of the world: it has no movement of development to exhibit...Egypt...does not belong to the African spirit" (1956:99; emphasis mine). This view of the Hegelian philosophy of history has become almost a common opinion and an academic paradigm in Western historiography. A great culture of civilization cannot be produced by African (Black) people. Moreover, African people have never made any kind of contribution to world history. Even some brillant African minds still accept as true Hegel's incongruous statement. In modern time the primary document concerning the "question" of the ancient Egyptian connection with the rest of Black Africa was, untile the cairo symposium, Hegel's Philosophy of History. Thus, it took one century and 44 years, from Hegel (1830) to the Cairo symposium (1974), to change the paradigm intalled by the German philosopher. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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