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Stolen Legacy
Challenging the notion that civilization started in Greece, this uncompromising classic attempts to prove that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not Greeks but Egyptians. The text asserts that the praise and honor blindly given to the Greeks for centuries rightfully belong to the people of Africa, and argues that the theft of this great African legacy led to the er...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
April 1st 2002
by African American Images
(first published June 1st 1954)
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Was shocking to read at first and wondered how much was true. A much more detailed account of how Egypt borrowed from Ethiopia can be found in The Destruction of Black Civilization.
I am currently reading this book and will base my senior thesis off of African/Greek philosophers and the stolen history. Because my major is Political Science I will focus on the political theories asserted by prominent philosophers such as Aristotle, Thales and Anaximander. A focus that is expressed directly in George G.M. James book is the acceptance of Greek Philosophy by western civilization...basically disregarding the true nature of Greek Philosophy that derived from African Philosophy (S...more
I am currently reading this book and will base my senior thesis off of African/Greek philosophers and the stolen history. Because my major is Political Science I will focus on the political theories asserted by prominent philosophers such as Aristotle, Thales and Anaximander. A focus that is expressed directly in George G.M. James book is the acceptance of Greek Philosophy by western civilization...basically disregarding the true nature of Greek Philosophy that derived from African Philosophy (S...more
Another book which I read some twenty years ago. Time for a re-read and review.
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This is an excellent source of African history.
The title says it all!
It all started in African. Kemet (egypt)
Everything.
The Greeks studied, burrowed, and invaded with Alexander the Great, turned the sacred temples and schools into "libraries" reworte everything, put their names on it and sold it.
pythagorous
socrates
plato
the romans and moses
all thievery.
all explained in the book
Everything.
The Greeks studied, burrowed, and invaded with Alexander the Great, turned the sacred temples and schools into "libraries" reworte everything, put their names on it and sold it.
pythagorous
socrates
plato
the romans and moses
all thievery.
all explained in the book
The most striking question the author leaves in my mind "why have we not read about the great Greek thinkers in the Eastern lands? The Greeks have written about the great civilizations of the east, but the Great civilizations did not write about the Greeks and all their knowledge and learning.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
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Stolen Legacy is a very interesting and provocative book that challenges, explains and focuses on how and why Greeks stole the teachings of ancient Kemet (Egypt).
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