Destruction of Black African Civilization
Introduction
By our topic we strive to give the reader a sense of an expanse of ‘time’ regarding Black African civilisation from it’s known beginning through to processes that made for its destruction. Objective historical research provides understanding of the Black African past to dispute the wilful racist underpinnings of ‘white’ scholarly research that has distorted and defamed the history of the Black Africans and the glorious civilisation that they bequeathed to the world.
Destruction of Black Civilisation
Dr. Chancellor Williams “…begins where the history of the Blacks began, in Egypt (Northern Ethiopia) and the Sudan (Southern Ethiopia)”. At the outset he clashes “head-on with the Caucasian version of African history”. He focuses on “the great issues in the history of the Blacks that emerge from” his scholarship and places him in direct “confrontation with white scholarship”. Dr. Williams continues, “for while I have covered much of the same ground explored by scholars before me, I have generally reached different conclusions than theirs, and from the same body of facts”. He further argues that they (whites) know of the true history of the Blacks, of their achievements, but ignore and refuse to publish any facts that would “upset” their racial philosophy handed down since time immemorial.
Reference. The Destruction of Black Civilisation: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. By Chancellor Williams. Third World Press, 3rd. Ed., Chicago 1987.
ISBN: 0-88378-030-5 (pb).
Thebes (Nowe)
CITY OF A HUNDRED GATES
Thebes was the most important single city in the entire history of the black people. (PDF)
Count Constant de Volney (1787)
During a trip to Kemet (Egypt) the Count exclaimed “on seeing that head of Horemakhet (the Sphinx), typically Negro in all its features, I remembered the remarkable passage of Herodotus, ‘the ancient Egyptians were true blacks of the same type of all native born Africans’. Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!”
The great sphinx
Ancient Thebes
Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, Thebes is a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.
My Visit to Egypt (June 1987)
While walking along the streets of Cairo I was often stopped by passersby (men) who invited me to have tea with them. I sparked their interested as I was instantly recognized as an African American and warmly welcomed to Egypt. That day I had tea with at least three different individuals, after which, floating tiredly, I pledged that I would never again walk the streets of Cairo alone.
Within three days, I begin my trip south to the Nile Valley in anticipation of seeing the great pyramids. The referenced work of Prof. Chancellor Williams provides the perfect backdrop for my transformative experience.
All photos were taken by me except the Rock Art, Sphinx, and optical scope. I used a 35mm Nikon F camera with Fiji ASA 400 color film (pre-digital era). The images, though digitally enhanced, show a degree of age.
Luxor
Upon my arrival in Luxor, I was astounded by the structures, statues, and facial images that appeared as if by magic before my eyes. I was instantly transformed back in time to experience kinship with wonders that seemed indelibly inscribed on my soul.
White Tourists
I can not forget the expressions on the faces of many ‘western whites’ arriving in tour groups and as they stared in wonder at the reality appearing before their eyes that when they compared those facial images of the statues with my own, instantly eyes blurred and heads dropped in disbelief. Their facial expressions revealed deep suffering of internal emotional trauma; due, in my mind, to the impact of historical lies coming in conflict with visible evidence to cause confusion with long-held notions of ‘whiteness’, i.e., their false sense of racial superiority, for years led to believe that Egypt was built by Caucasians.
Exploiters With the Pen
White experts on Africa “are not ignorant of the essential facts” about the accomplishments of Black African peoples. “They know, but there is apparently a deeply felt need, an urgent and almost desperate compulsion to justify the power position of the white world over the non-white peoples. That the power is so all-encomposing makes the task of [white] Western scholarship…easy”. Having “lost the honor of full manhood that comes only from the pride of racial worth and identity, the Black man’s mind generally operates favourably toward his white enemies and negatively toward himself and his kind”. No “one knows this better than the whites” who are unchallenged in recording Black African history as they saw fit.
Black Scholarship
Premiere Black objective scholarship is paramount in order to set the record aright. The future progress of the human race depends on it.
While walking along the streets of Cairo I was often stopped by passersby (men) who invited me to have tea with them. I sparked their interested as I was instantly recognized as an African American and warmly welcomed to Egypt. That day I had tea with at least three different individuals, after which, floating tiredly, I pledged that I would never again walk the streets of Cairo alone.
Within three days, I begin my trip south to the Nile Valley in anticipation of seeing the great pyramids.
While walking along the streets of Cairo I was often stopped by passersby (men) who invited me to have tea with them. I sparked their interested as I was instantly recognized as an African American and warmly welcomed to Egypt. That day I had tea with at least three different individuals, after which, floating tiredly, I pledged that I would never again walk the streets of Cairo alone.
Within three days of my arrival in Egypt, I begin my trip south to the Nile Valley in anticipation of seeing the great pyramids.
A Look Inside the Black African world
“What became of the Black People of Sumer?” the traveller asked the old man, “for ancient records show that the people of Sumer were Black. What happened to them?” “Ah,” the old man sighed. “They lost their history, so they died.”
-A Sumer Legend
The unanswered question is “what happened?”. How did this highly advanced Black Civilisation become so completely destroyed to the extent that the color of their skin became a sign of inferiority, and the badge of the slave whether bond or free? Whites were once enslaved as any other race, but how did it come about that slavery was finally concentrated in Africa on Blacks only?
A Black scholar, Dr. Chancellor Williams, provides his definitive answers to these ages-old questions.
Black Africa Historical Place Names
The Ethiopian Empire:
Before the Unification of the
“Two Lands” (3100 B.C.)
Egypt is considered Ethiopia’s ‘Oldest Daughter, being located the north-eastern region of ancient Ethiopia. This northern sector of the Ethiopian empire had been the object of world attention from the earliest times due to it being the crossroads from all directions leading into Africa from Asia and Europe. Due to the relentless spread of the desert and the scarcity of arable land, there was a heavier concentration of Africans in the Nile delta and valley because these areas had the richest soil in the empire. The advanced agricultural system that was developed along the overflowing Nile was one source of the wealth to support the great cultural advances. The other was the goal mines below the First Cataract.
NOTE: The map and information presented below will help guide you in your study of places named in the referenced publication above. Remember that the period of coverage begins around 3100 B.C., and in some cases names may have taken a new form, no longer exist, or deemed irrelevant by some researchers. However, Dr. Williams elucidates that which supports his thesis. Simply click on the source you would like to learn more about. In most cased you will be taken to Wikipedia.
Place Names
Click on the image at left and above to enlarge. To make learn more accessible, I listed below are the Africa place-names as seen on the above map. Click on each to learn more about its origins.
Nile Cataracts
The six great watermarks in the heartland of the Blacks from whence African culture spread over the continent, nowhere more so than in Egypt.
Aswan
Nubia
Tombos
Dar al Manasir
Napata
Meroë (Bagrawiyah)
Nubia
(Southern Ethiopia)
2nd Cataract
Semna
3rd Cataract
Kerma
Dongola
Napata
Black Pharaohs
Concentrations
Reference
Primary Reference. The Destruction of Black Civilisation: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. By Chancellor Williams. Third World Press, 3rd. Ed., Chicago 1987. ISBN: 0-88378-030-5 (pb).
Cairo Conference (1974). Pharaonic People, African of not? The conference resulted in the acknowledgement that the ancient Egyptians were Blacks. ISBN:92-3-101605-9, 84-85800-65-6 (spa), 978-92-3-301605-7, 92-3-301605-6 (spa), 84-85800-65-6 (spa), 978-92-3-301605-7, 92-3-301605-6 (spa)
The following two Black intellectual giants who through meticulous research, superb preparation, and unchallenged presentation enlightened a panel of twenty-two foremost white western ‘Africa’ experts on the true nature of Black African civilization. Click on each name to learn more about them and their contributions to humanity.
Cheikh Anta Diop
Theophile Obenga
Though the above Cairo Conference took place in 1974, white western scholarship could not and have not accepted its conclusions. To circumvent conference findings, white western scholarship now attempts to redefine the meaning of the word ‘civilisation’. This is being done in order to misappropriate the worthiness of Black African contributions to humanity by putting forth a finagled idea that whites were first in Africa, thereby reversing the western white/east asian four-hundred plus years pronouncements of Black Africans as savages, and redefine the glory of Black African accomplishments as based on ‘white’ western influence.
The entire Cairo Conference proceedings can be accessed here:
UNESDOC Digital Library. Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script, Cairo, 1974. Published in eight (8) volumes.
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There is much to learn about Africa without Eurocentric bias. Objective scholarship is revealing thoughtful consideration, wonder, deep appreciation, and unbiased opinion concerning the true nature of African history and its contributions to advance human civilisation. However, the true nature of Africa’s advancement is due mainly to the inherent spirituality of its peoples.
When We Ruled: The Ancient and Mediaeval History of Black Civilisations. By Robin Walker (2006). Published: Black Classic Press, Baltimore, MD. (2011). ISBN: 978-1-58073-045-7.This work examines the nature of what we call “Black History”, critically surveying the often-shoddy documentation of that history. Walker focuses on key elements that so many scholars of European descent have chosen, quite deliberately it seems, to distort, delete, or ignore.
Book of the Glory of the Black Race. By Simon Starr. Published: House of Starr (2015). ISBN: 978-1532708688.The focus of this work is on a famous Afro-Iraqi scholar, Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī, commonly known as al-Jāḥiẓ, an acclaimed prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu’tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics. He tells of the high esteem in which Blacks are held, records of one who when lying in death was embraced by the Prophet Mohammed, and mentions the ten sons of Abd el Mottalib (Mohammed’s grandfather) who “were all black and strong”. This book is dedicated to those who perished in the Zanj rebellion of Baghdad (ad 869–883), a black-slave revolt against the ʿAbbāsid caliphal.
African Civilizations. By John G. Jackson. Published: Citadel Press (Feb. 2001). ISBN: 0-8065-2189-9. This book challenges all the standard approaches to African history; especially the narrative that prior to the European invasion “African were savages”, and when invaded the Europeans conferred on them the “blessings of Christian civilisation”. This work “challenges all the standard approaches to African history”; “challenges the parochial historian, devastate the theoretical pretensions of white supremacists, and expand intellectual horizons”.
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