The Fact african history before slavery
For the vast civilizations that existed in Africa. Christianity existed in Ethiopia long before there was the "Church of England". Islam existed in Africa before it even reached outside of what is today the hinterland of Saudi Arabia. Libraries and universities existed in Islamic cities such as Timbuktu, where advance mathematics and astrology were studied. In Ethiopia for 100s of years the Kebra Negast was written in the only surviving African native script Ge'ez. Ethiopia was the only African nation to actively repel colonialism and is one of the world oldest continuous civilizations. |
Africa has always been part of the Biblical, Jewish and Islamic
world. It was a common site to see Ethiopians in Rome or anywhere in
the "known" world. Modern day Israel was also a site for Ethiopian
pilgrimage and Mecca was for Muslim Africa. The historical trip of Kanka
Musa was said to alter the economy of every state he passed through on
his way to Mecca.
So the story of Africa we are still clinging
to is Victim Victim Victim. Mansa Musa
clearly and utterly demonstrates not only that Africans were powerful,
but also international.
Mansa Musa remains the only man in recorded
history to singularly control the gold value of the entire Mediterrian
and was one of the richest men in history.
| Some of the most notable civilizations in human history come out of the Nile Valley in Africa, of these we know KMT (Ancient Egypt) and Nubia. Still today Western historians, as in the past, have tried to deny the African identity of these kingdoms, |
which are geographically
located in Africa. Yet no one has seriously said Greece was not a
European civilization, or Ancient China was not an Asian civilization.
So this double standard is the legacy of the white washing of Africa
history to satisfy the myth that Africa is outside of humanity,
civilization and thus suitable for harvest by more advanced nations.
The denial of African agency has had a profound impact on how the world sees general history in the context of the African agent. Christian history is African history (Aksum ). The history of World civilizations is the history of Africa. The history of Islam is the history of Africa (1st Hijirah, Sokoto, Islamic Spain), you cannot divorced one from the other. The history of humanity is an African history.
History and development didn't happen in
isolation of African agency. Slavery and Colonialism did victimized
Africans but Africans are not histories perpetual victims. Africans in
antiquity had agency
and made conscious choices which contributed to the development of
humanity. In Aksum the course that Ezna took to make
Christianity the state religion was based on his sovereign agency.
Regardless of
orientation, to believe Africans have been on the receiving any of other
people's whims is to deny African human agency. Agency swings both ways
and as much as it holds us accountable it also defines our station in
civilization.
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