{UAH} Africa : History

Yes. This debate was long settled but Eurocentricism deprives a good proportion of the world's population (including Africans and African descendants) of this basic education and knowledge.

Mitochondrial DNA has proven that all human beings including Europeans trace their ancestry 200,000 years ago to African Eve in East/Central Africa.

Professor Diop was also to resolve the debate about K-met, a.k.a. "Egypt" by showing through radiocarbon testing of melanin levels in tissue samples from mummies from K-met to show that they were Black Africans.

A Google search reveals a bust of Narmer, an African and Pharaoh who circa 3,200 BC united Upper and Lower K-met, a.k.a. "Egypt." As you point out high African cultures existed pre-dynastic Egypt and about 150,000 years ago all human beings were Black Africans. Those who lated migrated to other parts of the world (there were land bridges connecting the continents) through climactic and environmental adaptations over tens of thousands of years (those areas they migrated to were extremely cold in those days) took on different features and pigmentation.

So in essence we are all Africans. "Race" is a superficial social construction that became more pronounced when man became more and more exploitative of man-- to justify enslavement, colonialism, and contemporary imperialism. (Africa too was once an imperial power--not a "racist" one since "race" is a relatively modern construct).

Our ancestor Diop was one of the greatest scientist who lived and never got his just dues.

Please watch this classic 1985 interview with Cheikh Anta Diop by Listervelt Middleton 

https://youtu.be/9qI3-M0t1aU

On Tuesday, January 31, 2023, Allan <barigye.rugos@gmail.com> wrote:

Many people have a misconception that Africa has no history, however, studies into history and archeological records has proven that Africa has more rich and great history than what the old historians tried to make us believe. 

1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world.

2. Skeletons of pre-humans have been found in Africa that date back between 4 and 5 million years. The oldest known ancestral type of humanity is thought to have been the australopithecus ramidus, who lived at least 4.4 million years ago.

3. Africans were the first to organise fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago. At Katanda, a region in northeastern Zaïre (now Congo), was recovered a finely wrought series of harpoon points, all elaborately polished and barbed. Also uncovered was a tool, equally well crafted, believed to be a dagger. The discoveries suggested the existence of an early aquatic or fishing based culture.

4. Africans were the first to engage in mining 43,000 years ago. In 1964 a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range. Ultimately 300,000 artefacts were recovered including thousands of stone-made mining tools. Adrian Boshier, one of the archaeologists on the site, dated the mine to a staggering 43,200 years old.

5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The Ishango bone is a tool handle with notches carved into it found in the Ishango region of Zaïre (now called Congo) near Lake Edward. The bone tool was originally thought to have been over 8,000 years old, but a more sensitive recent dating has given dates of 25,000 years old. On the tool are 3 rows of notches. Row 1 shows three notches carved next to six, four carved next to eight, ten carved next to two fives and finally a seven. The 3 and 6, 4 a

Old, poor, uneducated, grumpy and with rotten village behaviours need not be allowed in civilized world.

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