Phil Ayesho
Superior Member
Sorry
this is nothing but desperate and vanity driven attempts to make Africa and Africans more important than they were. Its a political argument, not a scientific one.
You can correctly say that ALL human cultures are descendants from African ancestry... all human beings decedents of African forebears...
But most of the cited "connections" are, in fact, spurious.
Rome had existed for 300 years prior to its seizure of Egyptian wheat production. Prior to that time, it had simply bought the wheat.
Egypt, when Rome came knocking, had been ruled and dominated by GREEK culture for hundreds of years. IT was Greek culture that opened Egyptian production to the rest of the world.
And Egypt spent so much of its history under the rule of non-african invaders as to make any claims to "african" influence highly debatable.
The idea of African empires lasting longer than others is also a falsified claim based upon a re-definition of the concept.
Yes, certain ethnic african tribes have had continuous existence for thousands of years.... but only if you consider them linguistically.
That is, there are no African Tribes that can show a recorded history even remotely as long as, say, China.
And to consider modern day Egypt as the same "empire" as ancient Egypt is simply a geographical, rather than dynastic argument.
There have been people living on the Po river for 60,000 years.... that doesn't make them Italians.
African culture and african people have certainly had their share of influence on the rest of the world...
But no more than any other group of people.
This kind of book is pandering to feelings of racial inadequacy or racial superiority... its a "feel good" paean to bolster black ego that distorts and re-defines history to falsify a greater "black" contribution than real historical scholarship supports.
It is racist in its specific intent.
this is nothing but desperate and vanity driven attempts to make Africa and Africans more important than they were. Its a political argument, not a scientific one.
You can correctly say that ALL human cultures are descendants from African ancestry... all human beings decedents of African forebears...
But most of the cited "connections" are, in fact, spurious.
Rome had existed for 300 years prior to its seizure of Egyptian wheat production. Prior to that time, it had simply bought the wheat.
Egypt, when Rome came knocking, had been ruled and dominated by GREEK culture for hundreds of years. IT was Greek culture that opened Egyptian production to the rest of the world.
And Egypt spent so much of its history under the rule of non-african invaders as to make any claims to "african" influence highly debatable.
The idea of African empires lasting longer than others is also a falsified claim based upon a re-definition of the concept.
Yes, certain ethnic african tribes have had continuous existence for thousands of years.... but only if you consider them linguistically.
That is, there are no African Tribes that can show a recorded history even remotely as long as, say, China.
And to consider modern day Egypt as the same "empire" as ancient Egypt is simply a geographical, rather than dynastic argument.
There have been people living on the Po river for 60,000 years.... that doesn't make them Italians.
African culture and african people have certainly had their share of influence on the rest of the world...
But no more than any other group of people.
This kind of book is pandering to feelings of racial inadequacy or racial superiority... its a "feel good" paean to bolster black ego that distorts and re-defines history to falsify a greater "black" contribution than real historical scholarship supports.
It is racist in its specific intent.
