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21/12/2023

08/10/2022

BOOK REVIEW
The World And Africa by William E B Du Bois (1947)
Written by one of America’s most influential activists on black civil rights during the 20th century, William Du Bois, this book boasts of being ‘An inquiry into the part which Africa has played in world history’.
Using and influenced by his knowledge of History, being a holder of a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, Du Bois gives an in-depth description of Afrikan history and how it affected and was affected by Europe and Asia.
From the birth of civilisation, which became centred in the north-east of the continent, attracting the most highly skilled and intelligent Afrikans from other parts of the continent, through to the many migrations caused by war, famine, foreign (non-Afrikan) invaders and their slave raiding activities, and finally to the colonisation of virtually the whole continent, by European nations.

22/08/2022

TAKE A LOOK BACK INTO THE PAST

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14/08/2022

BOOK REVIEW
The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams (1974)
Written by pan-Afrikanist professor Chancellor Williams, this book takes a deep look at the birth and development of blak civilisation in ancient Afrika starting from pre-dynastic times in Ethiopia (Nubia) and going through the ups and downs of its progression and then dismantling into modern times.
He gives a solid description of what seems to be a repeated pattern of at first peaceful non-Afrikan incursions into Afrikan territory followed eventually by invasion, destroying much of what had been previously built and displacing the most determined of the original indigenous people who would relocate in waves as part of a strategy to maintain the most important parts of their culture and traditions.
He holds onto a theory that this was a pattern that started in pre-dynastic times before the birth of civilisation, but his wrongful conclusion where this is concerned is because at the time of writing, the consensus among the majority of Eurocentric historians was that Asians had migrated to Afrika and influenced the development of the first civilisation there. This even though they had failed to do so in their own homelands.
This kind of viewpoint was overwhelmingly what was to be found when researching anything to do with ancient Afrikan history that might imply any kind of intellectual human advancement by the blak people of antiquity.
Williams despite being fully aware of this phenomenon is still unable to avoid falling into some of the traps laid, displaying an over acceptance of some of the theories that have been espoused by the Eurocentric anthropologists and historians in the hundreds of books that he must have read during his many years of research.
This however does not cause this book to be a resource of little value in the field of the ‘Afrikan Mestory’, defined in this context as being a reliable and truthful account of the Afrikan’s own story.