Many thanks, dear Isaac Samuel. Your article is well-written, clear, concise and empowering. Humanity needs to know the truth, particularly for Africans and those living in the diaspora, to free themselves from the bondage of Eurocentrism, imperialism, and inferiority complex. I came across a recently published book entitled: Beyond Eurocentrism: The African Origins of Mathematics and Writing. In it, the author discusses the African origins of mathematics and writing. A must-have treatise for all of us. Thank you very much.
No thank YOU sir. This is so important it goes over many of our heads. Our histories and experiences should inform us, not be used as tools for narratives and counter narratives that lead us nowhere useful at this point in time. I’ve been reading “The invention of Africa” by mudimbe and he echoed similar sentiments in his work. One very important point I came across in an article that mention his work was that our generations now, are stuck in cycles of over analysis, trying to prove a point by always going tit for tat with false narratives out there about this continent. Yet this ends up diminishing our energy for innovation, continuous invention and creativity for future generations. (While the talent is most certainly there, yet not given as much attention). We need action that will be fruitful. We could do so much better with all this information and our time instead of trying to prove anything to anyone. I will most certainly be sharing this everywhere I can in hopes of collaborating with fellow Africans within this decolonization framework you’ve proposed. Thank you for your time and effort in writing these articles, sincerely.
I really enjoyed this! I really needed an overview of how the Eurocentric view of history was constructed and the Afrocentric reaction. Besides that, I always wondered how Egyptomania made its way into the Freemasons. To your point about these ideas still effect our world today, the Gottingen school of History "three races" nonsense wormed its way into a sociology class I took at a community college course I took in the Southern US back in 2012.
i think freemasons were attracted by the aesthetics of it, i found the part that they played in the transmission of Egyptian concepts and history to the US very interesting
Many thanks, dear Isaac Samuel. Your article is well-written, clear, concise and empowering. Humanity needs to know the truth, particularly for Africans and those living in the diaspora, to free themselves from the bondage of Eurocentrism, imperialism, and inferiority complex. I came across a recently published book entitled: Beyond Eurocentrism: The African Origins of Mathematics and Writing. In it, the author discusses the African origins of mathematics and writing. A must-have treatise for all of us. Thank you very much.
Kwaku
This is one of the best cases for decolonization I’ve read so far.
thank you.
No thank YOU sir. This is so important it goes over many of our heads. Our histories and experiences should inform us, not be used as tools for narratives and counter narratives that lead us nowhere useful at this point in time. I’ve been reading “The invention of Africa” by mudimbe and he echoed similar sentiments in his work. One very important point I came across in an article that mention his work was that our generations now, are stuck in cycles of over analysis, trying to prove a point by always going tit for tat with false narratives out there about this continent. Yet this ends up diminishing our energy for innovation, continuous invention and creativity for future generations. (While the talent is most certainly there, yet not given as much attention). We need action that will be fruitful. We could do so much better with all this information and our time instead of trying to prove anything to anyone. I will most certainly be sharing this everywhere I can in hopes of collaborating with fellow Africans within this decolonization framework you’ve proposed. Thank you for your time and effort in writing these articles, sincerely.
I really enjoyed this! I really needed an overview of how the Eurocentric view of history was constructed and the Afrocentric reaction. Besides that, I always wondered how Egyptomania made its way into the Freemasons. To your point about these ideas still effect our world today, the Gottingen school of History "three races" nonsense wormed its way into a sociology class I took at a community college course I took in the Southern US back in 2012.
i think freemasons were attracted by the aesthetics of it, i found the part that they played in the transmission of Egyptian concepts and history to the US very interesting