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The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members
attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone
with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there
were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From
then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord,
who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander,
calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of
our troubles.
Cheikh Anta Diop, Precolonial Black Africa

tags: thought-provoking

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....the line of ill-intentional Egyptologist, equipped with a ferocious

erudition , have commited their well known crime against science, by becoming
guilty of a deliberate falsification of the history of humanity.
Supported by the governing powers of all the Western countries , this ideology,
based on a moral and intellectual swindle, easily won out over the true scientific
current developed by a parallel group of Egyptologist of good will, whose
intellectual uprightness and even courage cannot be stressed stronly enough.
The new Egyptological ideology , born at the opportune monment, reinforced the
theorectical bases of imperialist ideology. That is why it easily drowned out the
voice of science, by throwing the veil of fasificacation over historical truth.
This ideology was spread with the help of considerable publicity and taught the
world over, because it alone had the material and financial means for its own
propagation.
Thus imperialism, like the prehistoric hunter, first killed the being spiritually
and culturally, before trying to eliminate it physically. The negation of the
history and intellectual accomplishments of Black Africans was cultural, mental
murder,which preceded and paved the way for their genocide here and there in the
world.
Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology

tags: ancient-african-history

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Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the
truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is
the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are
not called for and add nothing to real progress.
Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

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By the Middle Ages the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: SDI, an
educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, Tarikh es-
Soudan cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar,
rhetoric, not to mention law and other disciplines...the long lists of subjects
studied and the lettered African intellectuals who taught them at the University of
Tombouctou
Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilisation Ou Barbarie

tags: africa, afrique, curriculum, education, trivium, university

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When we say that the ancestors of the Blacks, who today live mainly in Black
Africa, were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in
general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organization, medicine, writing,
technique, architecture; that they were the first to erect buildings out of 6
million tons of stone (the Great Pyramid) as architects and engineersnot simply as
unskilled laborers; that they built the immense temple of Karnak, that forest of
columns with its famed hypostyle hall large enough to hold Notre-Dame and its
towers; that they sculpted the first colossal statues (Colossi of Memnon, etc.)
when we say all that we are merely expressing the plain unvarnished truth that no
one today can refute by arguments worthy of the name.
Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

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La conscience morale de lhumanit progresse, lentement mais srement...

Cheikh Anta Diop, Ci