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The book that will change everything you know about African history:
When We Ruled by Robin Walker.
In 700 pages of groundbreaking research, Walker uncovers the hidden story of Africa's past.
If you don't have a couple of months to read it yourself, here are 10 important
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August 1st is Emancipation Day in:
• Belize
• Guyana
• Jamaica
• St. Lucia
• Grenada
• Bermuda
• Barbados
• The Bahamas
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Today, we commemorate the emancipation of enslaved Africans and
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The Ten Commandments are a condensed version of the 42 Declarations of Ma'at from ancient Kemet, stripped of their original context and power.
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When you say "Amen", this is who you are praying too.
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The 3 African History books that will teach you all you need to know:
1. The African Origin of Civilization
2. The Destruction of Black Civilization
3. Stolen Legacy
Everything else is Eurocentric propaganda.
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Pharaoh Khufu used "Pythagoras' theorem" to build the Great Pyramid of Giza.
And he did it 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.
Either the ancient Egyptians were time travellers
or
We need to rename the theorem after the African genius who discovered it first.
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'It was at the Council of Nicea in 332 AD that the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official state religion and abolished all competing ideology.
At this conference, European images replaced the African images of the Madonna and Child'
Anthony Browder
From The Browder
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'When the Greeks first travelled to Africa 2,500 years ago, the Egyptian civilization was already ancient
The Greeks came to Africa as students to sit at the feet of the masters and discover what the Africans already knew'
Anthony Browder
From The Browder Files
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If you don't feel the urge to highlight every line of this book
Then it wasn't written for you and your not ready to hear the truth.
Pick up a different book.
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'The same forces which inspired our ancestors to become
• Pyramid builders,
• Physicians,
• Metaphysicians,
• Alchemists,
• Mathematicians
And Great men and women in general,
Are still with us today'
Anthony Browder
From the Browder Files
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10 Steps From The First Humans to The First Civilization
300,000 ago: The Birth of Humanity
90,000 ago: The First Evidence of Fishing in DR Congo
43,000 ago The First Evidence of in Mining Eswatini
37,000 ago The First Evidence of Math in South Africa
15,000 ago The First
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The 24 African History Books Recommended By Akala in The Oxford Union Lecture:
• Unesco General Histories Of Africa Vol 1-15 – Multiple authors
• When We Ruled – Robin Walker
• Before The Slave Trade – Robin Walker
• The African Origin Of Civilsation: Myth or Reality –
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European colonialism didn't bring civilization to Africa
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The pyramids weren't built by aliens. They were built by African geniuses who understood mathematics and engineering better than anyone else in the world.
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55 African History Books
Recommended by The Great Runoko Rashidi
• Visions for Black Men by Na’im Akbar
• Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani
• Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
• The Cult of the Black
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'African Americans travel to Africa, not as tourists, but as pilgrims, in search of the missing pages of their history.
The history of africa and African people is a story which has been denied, distorted and often presented as other peoples' history.
When African Americans
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Do what you love, but study Ancient Kemet and Nubia
Study the Empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai
And The Kingdom of Ife
Or you might end up believing the lie that our ancestors had no history before the Europeans showed up
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If thinking about African History doesn't get you excited, it's time to start learning the facts.
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The 5 Scholars who Revolutionised our Knowledge of African History:
• Cheikh Anta Diop
• John Henrik Clarke
• Chancellor Williams
• Yosef Ben-Jochannan
• John G. Jackson
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Relearning your history from an African perspective.
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'The pattern of worldwide imperialism had been determined long ago.
Instead of invading the country by force, they ringed the country with trading posts along its borders.
To these outposts missionaries assembled.
And were later followed by armed detachments.'
Chancellor
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'We speak the language of our former enslavers.
We carry their first and last names.
We worship their gods and celebrate their history and culture.
Few of us know our ancestral traditions which existed before the advent of the European slave trade.
But deep inside every one
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When Tutankhamen died, his wife Ankhesenamun fled from Kemet.
She crossed seas, traveling through Spain and Ireland until she found a place to settle far from the Nile.
Her new family called her Scota and she was the first Queen of Scotland.
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'Ethiopia was the first established country on Earth and the Ethiopians were the first to set up the worship of the Gods, and who established laws'
Stephanus of Byzantium (5th Century AD)
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'The truth is, not only did Africans travel to America before Columbus, they also knew the Earth was round.
Prior to 1492, Europeans thought that the Earth was flat and that if one sailed to the West the ship would surely fall off the planet'
Antony Browder
From the Browder
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'They took over Africa's god's as their own'
Chancellor Williams
Destruction of Black Civilization
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'The Blacks' conception of God was on a scale too grand to be acceptable to Western minds.
So they had to reduce it by using a term that is equated with paganism, "primitive" backwardness and barbarism.
The word is "Animism".
But historians and anthologists are still proving
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'Egypt had always been recognised as a Negro country.
This opinion did not change until the day it was recognised with amazement that Egypt was the mother of all civilization.
Then eyesight suddenly improved and it was possible to distinguish, on the frescoes where everyone
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They can break the nose, but they can't hide the truth.
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'These are the graves of the forgotten Kings of Kush.
Here lay the black princes of the 25th Dynasty,
From 751 BC to 654 BC, they ruled across the length and breadth of the Egyptian empire, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the boarders of modern Ethiopia.
They were
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'When we say that the ancestors of the Blacks, who today live in Black Africa, were the first to invent:
• Mathematics
• Astronomy
• The Calendar
• Sciences in general
• Arts
• Religion
• Agriculture
• Social organization
• Medicine
• Writing
• Architecture
• That
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When Rome invaded Nubia they met a one-eyed Queen.
She fought so fiercely that Rome never dared to look beyond Egypt again.
Her name was Queen Amanirenas
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Pursuing truth about African history is the transition from a life believing what others tell you to knowing who you really are.
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'The first Kongolese King to become Christian was Nzinga Kuwu in 1491, taking the name of Joao I.
Jesuit Fathers were installed as councillors to the king.
Kongo rulers now found themselves free to make important decisions without reference to Black councillors.
They became
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'The ancient African people called their land Kemet, The Land of Blacks,
Before the Greeks gave it the name of Aegyptos, Egypt.
The glyphs for Kemet begin with a piece of charcoal and ends with a symbol meaning country, nation, town, place, society.
The term “The Land of
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'The ancient Egyptians were masters of Horology, the science of measuring Time.
They used the sun to divide the days in 24 equal units which we now call hours.
This word references Heru, the Egyptian personification of the sun,
Who the Greeks later renamed Horus.'
Anthony
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If you know more about American and European history than you do about:
• The Moors
• Ancient Kemet
• Great Zimbabwe
• The Empire of Mali
• The Swahili Civilization
Then it's safe to say you have been brainwashed.
You need to know the truth about your ancestors.
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The 9 Elements of the Kemetic Soul:
• The Ka (Vital essence)
• The Khat (Physical body)
• The Ba (Personality)
• The Ab (Heart)
• The Shut (Shadow)
• The Akh (Intellect)
• The Sahu (Spiritual body)
• The Sekhem (Power)
• The Ren (Identity)
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'The foreign invaders of the Nile Valley:
• Hyksos
• Libyans
• Assyrians
• Persians
• Greeks
• Romans
• Arabs
• Turks
• French
• British
Introduced no new concepts into Kemet.
But they left Africa with a knowledge of:
• Religion
• Science
• Astronomy
•
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If you accept Eurocentric history without question, you're colonizing your own mind
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How 2 African Polymaths Outshone the Egyptologists at the UNESCO Cairo Symposium in 1974
Imagine you are a scholar of ancient Egypt,
And you are invited to a symposium to debate the origins and identity of the ancient Egyptians.
You are confident in your views, based on
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8 Statues that Prove the Ancient Egyptians were Africans: 🧵👇🏿
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Pythagoras and Plato were students of African wisdom.
• Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years.
• Pythagoras studied Philosophy, Geometry and Medicine in Egypt for 22 years.
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Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on Earth - Even more than Kemet (Egypt).
There are 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of:
• Al Kurru
• Gebel Barkal, and
• Meroe
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10 Cultural Connections between Ancient Kemet (Egypt) and the Rest of Africa
1. Totemism in Religious Practices
- Egyptian Pharaohs embodied the falcon god Horus
- Dogon of Mali believe in biological kinship with their totem animals
- Both cultures prohibit harming or
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Black dynasties ruled the most advanced civilization of the ancient world
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'Ancient Egyptians looked more like the present day Nubians than the present day Arabs.
The Nubians are the direct descendants of the people who built the massive stone monuments in the Nile Valley'
Molefi Kete Asante
The Egyptian Philosophers
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'The Negroid stone heads found among the Olmecs and in other parts of Mexico and Central America are from as early as 800 to 700 B.C.
Clearly American history has to be reconstructed to account for this irrefutable piece of archaeological data.
The implications of these
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Some people still don't know that the founders of Ancient Egypt were Black Africans.
But the debate was settled in 1974 at The UNESCO Cairo Symposium.
There were two opposing theories:
• The people who lived in ancient Egypt were 'white' - even though their pigmentation was
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The Nile Valley is where Black Africans developed the sciences, arts, and philosophies that would shape world civilization.
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Western academics systematically whitewashed African history.
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'The Egyptians went even further and represented their god in a Negro colour.
In their own image: Coal Black'
Cheikh Anta Diop
The African Origin of Civilization
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They say Greek philosophy is the foundation of 'Western thought'
But Pythagoras spent 22 years studying in Africa.
And Plato's ideas mirror Kemetic concepts.
Greek Philosophy is rebranded ancient African wisdom.
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The history you've been taught is a lie.
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Study Ancient Nubia
Study Ancient Kemet
Study Axum
Study Ghana, Mali and Songhai
Study Great Zimbabwe
Study your Ancestors.
You will become Powerful.
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Back in 1974, legendary scholar Chancellor Williams distilled his 20+ years of wisdom into 384 pages.
And in this book, The Destruction of Black Civilization, he shared a simple 6-step process for discovering the truth about African History.
Here’s the breakdown:
1. Begin
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'When in the Twenty-Fifth dynasty the Assyrians, the power of Western Asia, had made vassals of the northern Egyptian kings,
It was the black kings of the south who reunified Egypt under their rule once again and held the Assyrians at bay for nearly a century,
Ushering in a
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'We are aware of various invasions of Egypt:
• Hyksos
• Libyans
• Assyrians
• Persians
But none of these brought any new development in:
• Mathematics
• Astronomy
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Medicine
• Philosophy
• Arts, or
• Political Organisation
...All the elements
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Were Ancient Egyptians Black, White or Arabic?
Here is the short version:
• 5000 years ago
Ancient Egypt (Kemet) was founded and ruled by Black African Pharaohs
• 2000 years ago
Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire
• Today
Egypt is a Republic with an Arabic President
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Long before colonialism, African empires built wonders that rival any in the world.
These ruins of ancient Africa hold the secrets about who we are and where we come from.
Today we will explore 8 of the most renowned ruins.
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The erasure of Kemet's African identity is not accidental
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'Masses of Blacks found security in the hills that were made inaccessible to both Arabs and Europeans.
Such were Blacks who isolated themselves in the strongholds of the Nuba Hills.
They were never conquered, throwing back all invading army units that attempted subjugation and
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The oldest Christian bible in the world comes from Ethiopia.
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'In ancient times, there was no physical distinction made between the people who occupied the lands now called Egypt and Sudan.
The ancient Egyptians saw themselves as "Blacks" who were portrayed as no different from other blacks in Africa'
Anthony Browder
Nile Valley
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'No other ancient people practiced medicine to the degree and with the perfection of the ancient Kemites.
Their medical schools were known for their ability to heal the sufferings of humanity.
Homer attests to this during the 8th century BC when he exclaimed that in medicine
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The moment you accept ancient Egyptians (Kemetyu) were African, is the moment you'll reclaim your true heritage.
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This African man ruled the most powerful civilization on the planet, 3800 years ago.
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Cheikh Anta Diop's books are packed with more knowledge than most university degree courses.
But if you don't want to spend the next 4 years reading them all,
Here are the 4 key lessons I learned from reading books by Cheikh Anta Diop:
• History: Ancient Egypt was a Black
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African spirituality isn't primitive or pagan - it's a sophisticated cosmic science that European religions have poorly imitated for centuries.
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'Ethiopia was land of the Gods'
Cheikh Anta Diop
The African Origin of Civilization
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The greatest cover-up in human history.
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'The Mossi saw Islam and Christianity as the white man's vehicles of conquest.
It was the only black nation to see this - in time.
The Mossi Prophecy held that when the first white man appeared in the land, the nation would die.
The Mossi held on steadfastly to their own
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'It is hard for many to imagine the Negro-African figure being venerated as a god among the American Indians.
He has always been represented as the lowest of the low, at least since the era of conquest and slavery.
His humiliation as a world figure begins, in fact, with the
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Ancient Kemet was a Black African society.
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The Berlin Bust of Nefertiti is a fake and was only created in 1912.
In 2009, the Swiss art historian, Henri Stierlin exposed that the bust was created in 1912 at the request of a German archaeologist.
Ludwig Borchardt wanted to test ancient pigments and commissioned an artist
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Most people confuse Kemet with Egypt.
Here are 3 key differences:
• Kemet was the native black African civilization, Egypt was a Greek civilization
• Kemet lasted 3000 years before the Greeks took over in 332 BC.
• Kemet built the pyramids, Egypt did not
African King of
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'Is it not strange that it is in this very period when the Negro-African begins to appear in Mexico and to affect significantly the Olmec culture that the first pyramids, mummies, trepanned skulls, stelae and hieroglyphs begin to appear in America?
Is it not strange that it is
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'The oneness of Egyptian and Black culture could not be stated more clearly.
Today all Negroes can legitimately trace their culture to ancient Egypt and build a modern culture on that foundation.
A dynamic modern contact with Egyptian antiquity would enable Blacks to discover
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'Most people refuse to accept a new belief simply because it contradicts their present belief system.
To continue to believe in a proven falsehood is detrimental to the believer.
One must never be afraid to evaluate new information and accept it, if it is proven to be true.'
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The 4 Foundational Truths of African History
• 300,00 years ago Africans were the only human beings on the planet
• 60,000 years ago Africans populated East Asia
• 40,000 years ago Africans populated West Asia (Europe)
• 6,000 years ago Africans began in the first
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'Modern man cannot recreate the technology that built the Great Pyramid, mummified the Kings of Kemet or built the temple of Ipet Isut (Karnak)'
Anthony Browder
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization
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'The Portuguese arrived at the mouth of the great Congo River in 1488.
Their aim was to make the tiny European state into a vast African-Indian empire.
The Portuguese, as ignorant of the African people as they had been about the shape of the Earth, were not prepared to find
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12 Europeans Who Reported Seeing African People in America (Before European Colonization)
• Riva Palacio
• Peter Martyr
• Ramon Pane
• Alonzo Ponce
• Gregoria Garcia
• Captain Kerhallet
• Lopez de Gomara
• Ferdinand Columbus
• Christopher Columbus
• Rodrigo de
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Separating ancient Egypt (Kemet) from the rest of Africa is a colonial tactic to deny Egypt's (Kemet's) African roots.
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The 7 Principals of Ma'at:
1. Truth
2. Justice
3. Harmony
4. Balance
5. Order
6. Reciprocity
7. Propriety
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In the 1960s Egypt dammed the Nile, flooding one of the most important archaeological sites in the history of human civilization:
'There is no way to estimate the total number of temples and tombs which now lie at the bottom of Laker Nasser,
Nor is there any way of knowing the
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'It is impossible to stress all that the world owed to the Egyptians.
The Greeks merely continued and developed what the Egyptians had invented.
By virtue of their materialistic tendancies, the Greeks stripped those inventions of the religious, idealistic shell in which the
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'Certain Biblical passages are practically copies of Egyptian moral texts'
Cheikh Anta Diop
The African Origin of Civilization
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'These self-governing people did not have a Utopian society in any idealistic sense.
Theirs was a practical society in every way.
The laws were natural laws, and order and justice prevailed because the society could not otherwise survive.'
Chancellor Williams
The Destruction
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'The original Moors, like the original Egyptians, were Black Africans'
Chancellor Williams
The Destruction of Black Civilization
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Wait, so you’re telling me that there are people who don’t know Ancient Egyptians were African?
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'Recent studies of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the cuneiform mathematical tablets of the Babylonians and Sumerians have established that an advanced science did flourish at least three thousand years before Christ,
And that Pythagoras, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus and other
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'Egypt is the oldest documented civilization on Earth
And all of its primary leaders and pyramid builders were African.'
Anthony Browder
From The Browder Files
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If you aren't tired when you go to bed and excited when you wake up, you need to read more African History books.
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Before there was American History,
There was Black History
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'The Vikings bought no new plant, influenced no art, introduced no ritual, left no identifiable trace of their blood in the native American.
The same may not be said of the African:
• His skeleton lies beside the ancient Mexican magicians
• A strain of his cultivated cotton
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What Did Europeans Find in Africa 500 Years Ago?
‘They arrived in the Gulf of Guinea and landed at Vaida in West Africa.
The captains were astonished to find streets well laid out, bordered on either side for several leagues by two rows of trees.
For days they travelled
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