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John Parker
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November 27, 2022 - February 4, 2023
the Malinke,
eclipsed the remnants of Ghana’s authority to establish a new system of o...
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the history of mankind in Africa is older than that in any other continent.
Over 300 languages are spoken in Nigeria alone.
Amazing!!
‘Culture’
the sum total of ideas, beliefs, values, and representations shared by the members of a given community.
music
has been the most historically dynamic on a continental as well as a worldwide stage.
numerous examples of African innovation in the realm of world religions.
Asantehene,
consequences of millennia of human movement, of conquest and subordination, of cultural exchange, of long-distance trade, of the dissemination of religious faiths, of colonialism and its demise – and of sexual attraction,
Modern North Africans
descended from a rich mélange of indigenous Berber and Egyptian peoples, co-mingled with the inhabitants of ancient Greek, Phoenician, and Roman settlements, with Arab invaders, with long-resident Jewish communities, with returning ‘Moors’ from the Iberian peninsula, with sub-Saharan Africans drawn towards the Mediterranean by both enslavement and involvement
history of genes tells us only so much.
‘fusion’.
generalizations about Africans past and present are doomed to fail.
Recent historical study has also re-embraced their descendants, who through enslavement or voluntary migration have created communities beyond the shores of Africa, in the Americas and elsewhere (see Chapter 4).
the pan-Africanist pioneers stressed racial unity as a tool of redemption.
To writings about racial unity, dignity, and redemption
gradually were added layers of historica...
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a Hamitic ‘counter-hypothesis’ had be...
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Edward W....
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German ethnologist Leo Frobenius,
W. E. B. Du Bois,
The Negro
négritude
sought to refute the imperialist racial divide between civilized Europe and primitive Africa by demonstrating the latter’s rich cultural heritage.
Rev. Samuel Johnson,
‘Afrocentrism’.
Egyptocentrism,
Martin Bernal
Black Athena (1987),
‘African unity’
Ideology, however, can not replace history
Truth!
identity can be a tricky intellectual issue.
Zinédene Zidane.
Identity, in other words, is as fluid as it is multifaceted.
Other kinds of identity
are sometimes potentially very dangerous:
‘ethnogenesis’
Bruce Parry,
genocide in Rwanda
Banyarwanda.
nation-state.
The use of the word ‘tribe’ to describe African societies emerged from a desire to commend the nation-state while suggesting the inherent inferiority of others.
‘Tutsi’ and ‘Hutu’,
more like class terminology
became t...
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historians of Africa have faced significant constraints.
historians have developed a range of methods
