The Glory of Africa

The glory of Africa is still a reality today as it was in the past. Scientists from numerous quarters
pronounce Africa as the precise continent where human life originated from. Africa has gone through
trials and tribulations. Likewise, Africa is accumulated with a lot of positive stories and histories to tell.
Africa has some of the most beautiful and diverse fauna and flora in the world. Its residents are made
up of very humble, strong, intelligent, resilient, and imaginative human beings. Africa is apart of my
blood since my ancestors came from Africa. Therefore, it's certainly time to present an accurate, fair
description about the great land of Africa. Also, I wanted these words to be a reference point in
showing the world the truth. I really can't speak about Africa without discussing about Darfur and
Sudan. For decades, the regions of Northern Sudan (who are mostly Arab and Muslim) and
South Sudan (who are mostly black being Christians and animists) have fought with each
other. The North readily enslaves those of the South to immorally force Arab, Islamic culture
unto them for centuries. A peace treaty was "signed" in 2005, but conflicts are still occurring in
Darfur. Darfur is a region in Western Sudan with a mostly black, Muslim population. Muslim
Arab radical "Janjaweed" militias are murdering those in Darfur. The genocide is therefore
extremist Muslims killing innocent Muslims. I saw a protest in Washington, D.C. talking about
Darfur from CSPAN on April 30, 2006. People from the Left and Right agree that something
must be done to stop this genocide. There is the issue of blood diamonds. What is that? It's
about how diamonds in Africa (in places like Sierra Leone) are readily created by the work of
poor Africans (even children). These workers are typically given bad working conditions,
abused, and some die. These diamonds are owned by several corporations and spread
globally. Some activists have taken a stand to oppose blood diamonds. Many fights and
conflicts come about in creating diamonds as well. The blood in blood diamonds represent the
death and bloodshed many Africans have suffered by certain corporations' lust for diamonds
along with huge profits. West Africa and other region have this problem. An African professor
taught me and others about blood diamonds.

This statue is the image of Menes or Aha-Mena. Menes is ancient Egypt’s first
Pharaonic Monarch.

According to many people, the Egyptian pharaohs in its first 12 dynasties (from 3150-1783
B.C.) were all Black Africans. Some would disagree with that view. Even White Archaeologists
and Egyptologists like Gerald Massey have found evidence that Nubian Pharaohs pre-date the
first Egyptian Dynasties by at least 300 years. In ancient Egypt, there was a diversity of people
from the Semitic Shepherd Kings, Caucasians, to the black African Nubians. Yet, a Black
African presence in ancient Egypt is even acknowledge by the most potent racist. The
pyramids were built in this region and great literary texts (i.e. the Book of the Dead) were
written. Dr. Ivan Van Sertima (an Anthropologist), in a lecture delivered to the Institute of
Karmic Guidance, found iron and steel production in ancient throughout Africa (like Egypt with
Tutankhamen, Zimbabwe, Tanzania [1500 years ago]), and other places with achieving
temperatures of 1850 Degrees Celsius and using advanced machinery. Dr. Van Sertima also
displayed a series of photographic slides proving that ancient Africans have attained a high
level of scientific achievement. Count C. F. Volney accompanied the French Imperial Colonial
Forces under the control of General Napoleon de Boneparte. De Volney was a French nobleman
who was much troubled by the institution of slavery. His expressed the opinion that the ancient
Egyptians were black Africans. This was much departed from the typical European view of the late
eighteenth century (because many Europeans in that time believed the lie that black African never did
anything significant in human civilization), but it gave many people cause for reflection. Here are his
words on ancient black civilizations in ancient Egypt, etc:

"It was, then, on the borders of the Upper Nile, among a Black race of men, that was organized
the complicated system of worship of the stars, considered in relation to the productions of
the earth and the labors of agriculture; and this first worship, characterized by their adoration
under their own forms and national attributes, was a simple proceeding of the human mind."3
"...THERE A PEOPLE NOW FORGOTTEN DISCOVERED WHILE OTHERS WERE YET
BARBARIANS, THE ELEMENTS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. A RACE OF MEN NOW
REJECTED FOR THEIR BLACK SKIN AND WOOLLY HAIR, FOUNDED ON THE STUDY OF THE
LAWS OF NATURE THOSE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS WHICH STILL GOVERN THE
UNIVERSE..." (THIS QUOTATION IS EXTRACTED FROM PAGE XVII OF Count C.F. Volney's
masterpiece of the 19th Century C.C. Ruins of Empire)

"When I visited the Sphinx, I could not help thinking that the figure of that monster furnished the true
solution to the enigma (of how the modern Egyptians came to have their mulatto' appearance). (It's
features) were those of the negro.. (the Egyptians therefore must have been) real negroes, of the
same species of the natives of Africa…How are we astonished when we reflect that to the race of
negroes, at present our slaves, and the objects of our extreme contempt, we owe our arts, sciences,
and even the very use of speech; and when we recollect that in the midst of those nations who call
themselves the friends of liberty and humanity, the most barbarous of slaveries is justified, and that it
is even a problem whether the understanding of negroes be of the same species with that of white
men!" (M. Constantine de Volney, Travels through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785
[London: 1787], p. 80-83).

Basil Davidson wrote, "Egypt was not born into a void; it emerged from a Neolithic
womb, and this womb was African. The peasants of the Fayum Lake, those who laid the
foundations of old Egyptian society, were not without their own ideas about like and the
cosmos; the provenance of these ideas, or of most of them, was undoubtedly more
African than Asian. "God's Land" with all it great ancestral spirits lay, for dynastic
Egypt, neither in the east nor in the north, but far to the south and west. There is
nothing to show that the earliest forms of ram and sun worship or of other cults made
famous along the Nile did not take their rise in this obscure "God's Land" of "upper
Africa." (Davidson, Basil. The Lost Cities of Africa. Boston: Little Brown, 1959, 75).

Diodorus (63BC-14AD), an ancient Greek historian, recorded the popular belief that Egypt was an
Ethiopian colony:

"The Ethiopians (black people), as history relates, were the first of all men…They also say that
the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the
colony…And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the
colonists still preserving their ancient manners. For instance, the belief that their kings are
gods, the very special attention which they pay to their burial, and many other matters of a
similar nature are Ethiopian practices, while the shapes of their statues and the forms of their
letters are Ethiopian." (Poe, Richard. Black Spark White Fire. Rocklin, CA: PRIMA, 1997. 352).
 Tutankhamun from the back of his gold throne

Therefore, according to French scholar C. F. Volney (1757-1830) in the Ruins of Empires, (from
pgs. 16-17 in his 1991 version), he mentioned that that black people with frizzled hair founded
the study of laws of nature, civil and religious system with the metropolis of Thebes and other
places in Egypt and Ethiopia. Herodotus in his “Histories, Book II” acknowledges that the
Egyptians had Black skin and Wooly Hair. The pharaoh Tuthmosis III was the son of an
Egyptian father and Nubian mother. He founded the 18th Dynasty and crucial in expanding Egyptian
land overseas. Pharaoh Rameses II had Black African features and one sign of that was that his hair
was kinky as represented by the coils embossed on his helmet. The Egyptian King Sewosret who
colonized Greece was the founder of Athens. The civilization of Cush existed for thousands of years
B.C. From 3,300-2,200 B.C., the A, B, and Pan Group developed to form Iron making, trade, and
commerce. The Kerma culture arose in 1800 B.C. One of its most prominent construction was
the deffulfas which were massive towers made of mud bricks to store goods. Kerma, Meroe,
and other cities in Cush had pyramids, gold trading, and elaborate forms of government to flourish. In
Nubia, the black Nubians created an alphabet called the Meriotic script in the time of B.C. Piye
(Piankhy or the living one) in 724-660 B.C., Shabaka (660 B.C.) Tannetamani (698-653 B.C.), and
other kings ruled the land. The black man Taharka (698-690 B.C. and mentioned in the Bible) was a
famous king who ruled Egypt. He was also called Taharqa. Taharqa was the son and third successor
of King Piye. Some classified him as the greatest of the Nubian pharaohs.
 These images of the Black Nubians existed from Tomb of Huy from about
1342-1333 BC.

King Taharqa empire even expanded up the Mediterranean Sea to as far as Spain. King Taharqa of
the 25th Dynasty of Egypt was one of the ancient world’s greatest military tacticians. Queens came
along as well like Teritekas (30 B.C.) and in the time of the Romans, they were called the Cancades.
Axum came in ca. 500 B.C. at Ethiopia where many of them came from Saudi Arabia and migrated to
Africa. They spoke in wrote in the language of Ge'ez. In their sophisticated agricultural system, they
domesticated crops like coffee, grains, okra, etc. Before Axum, many tribes and kingdom existed in
Ethiopia.

Back then and today millions of Blacks live in isolated parts of Malaysia, Thailand,
Indonesia, Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Australia, Melanesia, and the rest of the Pacific
Isles. Ivan Van Sertima and Runoko Rashidi wrote a book called "The African Presence." It
shows sources, images, documents, and other pieces of facts to prove that a black presence
was in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient India, China, and the Pacific region of the world from
ancient times into the present time. The Agta are Black people who live in the Philippines
(there are also the Negritos of Southeast Asia and other tribes living in the Northern Islands).
Black Negritoes flourished in the Andaman Islands. Papua New Guinea had black in the
Western part of the island, yet Papua New Guinea is facing racism and genocide.

There was a Negriod presence in Britain:

“Excerpt from J.A. Rodgers - Sex and Race: 'Were the first Britons, Negroes? There is considerable
evidence that the might have been. Grimaldi relics have been dug up in England. 1 Very ancient huts,
strikingly like those of Africa and the South Seas have been unearthed at Glastonbury. Ring money of
the kind used by the Negroes of Sudan to pay tribute to the Pharaohs, which is still being hammered
out by African goldsmiths, has also been found. 2 Blue beads of 1500 to 1200BC, that are common in
the Egyptian ruins, have been found in considerable numbers in the Stonehenge district. [See article
on Druids].3'

In regards to color - J.A. Rodgers quotes Tacitus, a Roman historian of 80AD: 'The dark
complexion and the unusual curly hair' of the Silures or Black Celts, who occupied England
together with the 'fair-skinned, fair-haired' people. He believes the Black Celts migrated from
Spain [pre-Moors]. According to Gerald Massey in his book ' A Book of Beginnings' to the
Egyptian origins of the British Isles' He thinks that Stonehenge, the most famous ancient
monument in England, was built by a Negro architect, named Morien. [that is Mor or Moor,
from the ancient Egyptian]. JA Rogers also writes that:

"David McRitchie, a folklorist and researcher of British history - says' the best proofs of the
Negro origins of some of the noble (blue-blood) British families are 'the thick lipped Moors'
on their Coat of Arms. Some families are still named MOORE or MOHR, or MOOR. Berry 's
encyclopedia Heraldia says; ' Moor's head is the heraldic term for the head of a black or
Negro man,' (Sex and Race, pg 198)."

'He says, as a Negro is still known as Morien in English [British tongue], may not this indicate that
Morien belonged to the black race, the Kushite [African] builders?' The word 'moor' is derived from
Latin 'maures' meaning black. Maurice, Morris, Morrero, Moore, Maureen, Morien, Mary, Marie are the
names of ancient African people in Europe. Also; Blackwell, Blackwood, Cole, Coker, Lenoir, Brown
refer to Black people. Coke is a derivative of Coal. Old King Cole was a merry Black Soul. From the
same root we derive: Maur, Maurus, Marra, Moro, Morisco, Mohr, Moritz, Moor, Moru, Maru, Morelo,
Maureta, Mauretania, Morocco, Maurice, Morien, Morin, Moryan, Moreto, and so on….BTW: Ashan is
also the word used for Jerusalem and it's environs after the destruction and dispersion in 70AD - The
Ashan tribe or Ashan-Ti of Ghana derived their name from this even, since they were part of the tribe
of Hebrews that ran from the destruction and relocated in what is now Ghana, Africa” (From
www.essaysbyekowa.com/black_Britian.htm)

Plus, Gerald Massey (a poet and Egyptologist), Godfrey Higgins (who traced religious origins), and
David McRitchie (who worked from folklore) are archaeologists who found data of Blacks in Ancient
Britain. Moors in Scotland came as late as 827-1016 A.D. They were written about in McRitchie’s
“Ancient and Modern Britians” Also in J.A. Rogers’s Sex and Race, Vol. 1, there were wholly haired
black leaders as the paramount king of Transmarine, Scotland. In 1507, Moors were at the court of
King James IV of Scotland. Ellen More acted in a main tournament of the black Knight and the Black
Lady. There were blacks in Sicily and Italy in the middle Ages like Allesandro, the DeMedici Duke of
Florence (1510-1534). Allesandro was a biracial child of an African serving woman (a slave) and the
17 year old Cardinal Giulio de Medici (Pope Clement VII). Allesandro was a patron of the leading
artists in the area and the first duke of Florence. He was the first black head of state in the modern
Western World.
 A Black man in early Rome

There was also a Black presence in Rome. Even in ancient Greece, there was the mention of
Memmon, who was the black Ethopian King of the Illiad story. The Illiad was a fictional story
written by the Greek author Homer. In the story, Memmon came to the aid of Priam at Troy with
a noble character. In a battle, Memon slays Antilochus, then, in one of the more
sympathetic moments of the epic, Memmon spares Antilochus's defenseless father.
Greco-Roman writers described the black Ethiopians as noble and trustworthy. There
were so many blacks in ancient Rome that in 61 B.C., Nero allowed only blacks into the
theater to watch 100 Ethiopian huntsmen perform (according to scholar Frank
Snowden). Many black Africans in the Roman empire would be craftsmen, boxers,
acrobats, actors, soldiers, business people, and even government officials. This is similar
to the variety of jobs black people have today in the United States of America (which is
similar to ancient Rome in numerous ways). According to Yosef-Ben Jochanan, Septimus
Severus was an indigenous African (a Black Man). Septimus died in York at February 211 A.D.
Africans had many contributions to Rome. There were far more Africans in the Roman Empire than
what is shown indeed. The ancient Greeks and Romans did not display any hardcore race prejudice
as is evidenced today in America (with exceptions of course like slavery, etc.).
 This well-preserved coin depicting a black man, circa 208-207 BC, and dated by
some at 217 BC., was found in the Chiana (Clanis) valley. This coin was in
circulation in the vicinity of Lake Trasimeno and in the Chiana Valley. Could this be
the face of Hannibal?

Here’s more information describing this vital topic:

“On the contrary, some were writers, generals, philosophers, and emperors (a good example of a
Roman general was Septimius Serverus, whom the Antiochene chronicler, John Malalas, said was
dark-skinned). Moreover, a number of African slaves in Rome became prominent citizens and
contributed to Roman culture. The African in the Roman Empire worked, lived without fear of racial
animosity, entertained, and in many respects worshipped the same gods at the same place of worship
together with other slaves, servants and freedmen. Seneca, the Roman statesman, philosopher, and
intellectual said that among his own people the African's color was not noticeable… Tiro, an African
born a slave about the year 103 B. C. in Arpium, a city of Latium. He was born on the estate of Cicero,
the Roman statesman and lawyer. In fact, it was Tiro who invented shorthand. When Cicero, who was
still his slave master died, Tiro opened a shorthand school in Rome. He died in 4 B. C.

Terence, another African was born about 190 B. C. He was sent to Rome as a slave and was bought
by a Roman Senator, Terentius Lucanus, who named Terence after him. He was emancipated
because of his extraordinary talents. He wrote six plays and his works were studied with great interest.
He was/is highly regarded as one of the greatest humanists of all time. He wrote: "Homo sum, humani
nihil a me alienum puto" (I am a man and nothing human is alien to me). Terence died in 159 B. C.

Fronto was another exceptional African writer; he taught the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who
was up to a point depicted accurately in the movie. There was Apuleius another African writer, and
Slavius Julians, an African who edited the Paraetorian Edict. On another note as it relates to our
subject, Lusius Quietus was one of Rome's greatest African generals (in the movie it is Maximus, he
was of minor significance). Quietus served under Emperor Trajan. The Emperor named him his
successor to the Imperial Purple. Quietus and other African soldiers defended the Dacians. Moreover,
when the Jews revolted, Trajan sent Quietus to suppress the revolt, which he did with extreme
severity. The Jews called the rebellion "The War of Quietus." Similarly, African soldiers distinguished
themselves under the reign of Emperor Diocletian. Interestingly, at least ten Africans became
Emperors of Rome. They are listed on the historical record as the following: Macrinu, Firmus,
Emilianus, Septimius Serverus, Pescennius Niger, Aquilus Niger, Brutidius Niger, Q. Caecilus Niger,
Novius Niger, and Trebius Niger who was a proconsul in Spain… Africans were authorities on
medicine and they were often quoted by Caelius Aurelianus and Galen. Other noted Africans were
Domituis Afer, orator, Arnobius Afer, Christian writer; and Victorianus Afer, a scholar of rhetoric whose
statue was erected in the forum of Emperor Trajan…” (“Africans
Contributions to Rome” by Adib Rashad at June 13, 2001 From
http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/rome.htm)

The following website talks about African Emperors and other Africans in the Roman
Empire:

“.."Interestingly, at least ten Africans became Emperors of Rome. They are

listed on the historical record as the following: Macrinu, Firmus, Emilianus,
Septimius Serverus, Pescennius Niger, Aquilus Niger, Brutidius Niger, Q.
Caecilus Niger, Novius Niger, and Trebius Niger who was a proconsul in
Spain. Africans were authorities on medicine and they were often quoted by
Caelius Aurelianus and Galen. Other noted Africans were Domituis Afer,
orator, Arnobius Afer, Christian writer; and Victorianus Afer, a scholar of
rhetoric whose statue was erected in the forum of Emperor Trajan...Fronto
was another exceptional African writer; he taught the Roman Emperor,
Marcus Aurelius, who was up to a point depicted accurately in the movie
Gladiator. There was Apuleius another African writer, and Slavius Julians,
an African who edited the Paraetorian Edict." (From
http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub68.htm)

Lloyd A. Thompson wrote a book called “Romans and Blacks” describing the history of black people in
the ancient Roman Empire also. Jerome and Sophronius in the 4th century A.D. called Colchis a
second Ethiopia because of its large black population. Here’s more facts on the black Presence in the
Greco-Roman world according to scholar Frank Snowden:

“…The exact number of Ethiopians who entered the Greco-Roman world as a result
of varied military, diplomatic, and commercial activity is difficult to determine, but all
the evidence suggests a sizable Ethiopian element, especially in the population of
the Roman world….The black population in Greece and Italy was larger than has
been generally realized…” (Snowden, 183, 184)
 The person on the left is Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. The person on the right is
the black man Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who was Alexander’s great-grandfather.

The African Presence in Russia is interesting to discuss about. African presence in Russia
and its surrounding regions existed in the ancient past. I didn’t even realize this information
until a few years ago. There are more account of Black Colchians. In 522-443 B.C., a Greek
poet named Pindar described the Colchians, whom Jason and the Argonauts fought, as being
"dark skinned.” Apparently, in 1912, a Russian natualist by the name of V.P. Vradii
found a small colony of Black people in the area of Batumi, which is on the
southwestern coast of Georgia in Southern Russia. Vraddi noticed that they were quite
black in skin color and had very African features, while others were mixed with black and
Russian. Vradii published a book about the Black tribe called, Kavkaz. After the publishing
of his book, reports of other Black populations around the Black Sea began to flood local
media. As other scholars began to travel the land, here in modern times, they too began
reporting tribes of Black populations. There is another source on this information:

"Passing for the first time through the Abkhazian community of Abzhiubzha... I was
struck by the purely tropical landscape: Against the background of a bright green
primeval jungle there stood huts and sheds built of wood and covered with reeds; curly-
headed Negro children played on the ground and a Negro woman passed by grandly
carrying a bundle on her head. Black-skinned people wearing white clothes in the
bright sun resembled a picture of some African scene." (Allison Blakely, Russia and the
Negro: Blacks in history and Thought, Howard University Press, Washington, DC,
1986, p.78). Moreover, a black Colchian writer, historian, and ethnographer, Dmitri Gulia
(1874-1960) asserted that his peoples heritage stemed from Sesostris. He published a book
called, History of Abkhazia, which shows that the black Colchian people of Southern Russia
were really an Abyssinaian people of Egypt. he proves this by putting together a vast array of
Abkhazian words that matched that of ancient Egypt. He also chronicles "family names,
names of rivers and mountains, anems of pre-Christian deities, and much more." (Poe, 58).

Alexander Pushkin is a famous author in Russia (whose name in Russian is АлексаJндр

СергеJевич ПуJшкин). A.V. Lunacharsky said that: “Pushkin was the Russian spring.
Pushkin was the Russian morning. Pushkin was the Russian Adam." Alexander Sergeievich
Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russia. Pushkin's great-grandfather, a page raised by Peter the
Great (who lived from 1682 to 1725), was Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who was born in
Eritrea. Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal was a Black African Prince who was
brought to Russia by Peter the Great and became major-general, military engineer and
governor of Reval. He is perhaps best known today as the great-grandfather of Alexander
Pushkin, who wrote an unfinished novel about him, Peter the Great's Negro. In an unfinished
work, The Moor of Peter the Great, Pushkin paid great homage to his illustrious ancestor,
repeatedly referring to Hannibal as "the Moor", "the Black" and the "African." Gannibal’s
first wife was Evdokia Dioper, a Greek woman. Alexander is a patriarch of Russian literature.
In his day, most Russian writers composed their writers in French. Feodor Dostoevsky wrote
that, "No Russian writer was ever so intimately at one with the Russian people as Pushkin."
Maxim Gorky wrote that, "Pushkin is the greatest master in the world. Pushkin, in our
country, is the beginning of all beginnings. He most beautifully expressed the spirit of our
people." I. Turgeniev wrote that, "Pushkin alone had to perform two tasks which took whole
centuries and more to accomplish in other countries, namely to establish a language and to
create a literature."

According to N.A. Dobrolyubuv:

"Pushkin is of immense important not only in the history of Russian literature, but also
in the history of Russian enlightenment. He was the first to teach the Russian public to
read."

Czar Nicholas I even hated and fear Pushkin, but called him the most intelligent man in
Russia. Pushkin wanted to have social reform and that was why he was exiled from Russia.
The Czars back then were apparently pro-authoritarian. Alexander Pushkin made many works
like Eugene Onegin, the Ode to Liberty, the Captian’s Daughter, and Boris Godunf. To this
day, bronze images of Pushkin exist around Moscow and St. Petersburg. His portraits are
everywhere. Pushkin died on January 29, 1837 from a duel in defending his honor. In 1937,
the town of Tsarskoe Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honor. Today, many black people still
live in the nation of Russia.
Now, here's some history of Sub-Saharan Africa. Western Africa had many advanced
civilizations. The culture of Nok came about in Ghana in the time of 200 B.C. Nok was
definitely composed of complex artwork and various tools for resources. Benin and Ghana
came up by ca. 200 A.D. The origins of Ghana existed in the time between 600 B.C. and 400 B.C.
according to scholar Basil Davidson. Kings in Ghana settled disputes among different clans. He was
the supreme leader in military affairs, religious rituals, and other parts of the atmosphere of the nation.
A Moorish nobleman named Al Barki (from the 1000’s A.D.) described the Ghanaian King as setting
near gold and plenty of horses. Ghanaian typically refused to convert to Islam, but they had a cordial
relationship with Muslim merchants. They offered Islamic legal advice. The ancient Kingdom of Ghana
traded in plenty of items like cotton cloth, metal ornaments, and leather goods. Of course, the gold
and salt trade was a vital resource in Ghana’s trade procedures. Ibn Hawkal once called the King of
Ghana the richest soverign on Earth with reserves of gold, 1,000 horses (with their own supplies), etc.
Al Barki (El Berki) described Ghana's city of Aoudaghast as:

"A very large city with several markets, many date palms and henna trees as big as olives,
filled with fine houses and solid buildings." (Davidson, Basil. The Lost Cities of Africa.
Boston: Little Brown, 1959, 84)

In 1067 A.D., Al Barki also described the king Ghana possessing the capability of putting
200,000 warriors in the field (with more than 20,000 of them being armed with bows and
arrows). In ancient times, Africa was a rich land full of Kings and Queens of renown indeed.
One was Tenkamenin of Ghana. His reign was from 1037 to 1075 A.D. He instituted religious
tolerance, he promoted the great gold trade across the Sahara desert, and promoted justice in
Ghana. Timbuktu was a large city with an University where scholars from around the world
went into during the Middle Ages. King Askia Toure King of Songhay (from 1493-1529) had a
historical record of efficiency and administrative genius. Mahnud Ka'ti wrote, "the great men
of the Songhay were versed in the art of war. They were very brave, very bold and most
expert in the deployment of military stratagems." (Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth
century/ editor, D.T. Niane [London; Heinemann Educational Books; Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1984], 200). During the Middle Ages, Donald Levine and Almeida
described the Ethiopians as "very amenable to reason and justice…intelligent and good
natured…mild, gentle, kind…" (Hunwick, John, "Black Africans in the Islamic world: an
understudied dimension of the Black Diaspora," Tarikh 5.4, 27). A Portuguese chronicler
described an ambassador from Benin as, "a man of good speech and natural wisdom." (Lost
Cities, 136). Here’s another source on West African history:

"The Negroes are of all peoples those who most abhor injustice…Complete and general
safety one enjoys throughout the land (Mali Empire in West Africa)."
-Ibn Battua, 14th century Arab scholar who had traveled to China, India, East Africa, North
Africa, and finally Mali (Davidson, Basil. African Kingdoms. New York: Time, Inc., 1966,
82)

El Berki, writing in 1067 about the City of Aoudaghast in Ghana recorded that it is, "A very
large city with several markets, many date palms and henna trees as big as olives, filled with
fine houses and solid buildings."

King Alfonso I of the Kongo (who reigned from 1506 to 1540) made his area to possess
advanced knowledge and technology. Although a Roman Catholic, He opposed the slave trade
because many European powers worked with traitorous native African tribes to kidnap people
for slavery.

Writing in 1622 about the Kingdom of Benin, a Dutchman, Olfert Dapper, recorded that,
"These Negroes…are people who have good laws and a well-organized police; who live on
good terms with the Dutch and other foreigners who come to trade among them, and to whom
they show a thousand marks of friendship." (African Kingdoms, 104). In fact, most African
Americans who live in America today are descendants of the West Africans (especially
among the tribes of the Yoruba, Benin, in the national of Senegal, etc.).
There is also the great black civilization of Zimbabwe in Africa. There were a small
number of Iron Age people living in Zimbabwe by the 300’s A.D. Bigger
settlements existed by the Middle Ages from the 1000’s to the 1300’s. In the
1300’s, Zimbabwe became a powerful kingdom. Gold of course was a major source
of wealth as they traded with Africans, Arabic people, and others. There was the
development of cattle there as well. From about the late twelfth century," Peter
Garlake tells us, "diversification, expansion, affluence, and a concomitant of these,
increased social, economic and functional specialization took place in both cultures
so that in the end, entire settlements could, like areas within sites, be built and used
for limited functions by certain groups or clusters of people." (Africa from the twelfth
to the sixteenth century/ editor, D.T. Niane (London; Heinemann Educational Books;
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 533). The territory of Zimbabwe back
then reached from the Zambezi River to Transvaal. Their architecture was complex:

“All serious scholars now perceive Great Zimbabwe as an essentially African development,
built of local raw material and according to architectural principles that have endured from
the use of these media over many centuries." ~B.M. Fagan, Oxford Archeologist

Zimbabwe’s stonewalls were well constructed and had sophisticated drystone masonry.
Great Zimbabwe is a sixty acre site having 2 massive stone structures. There was a royal
palace and a fort. An Acropolis existed or a succession of stone buildings on a high hill that
overlooked a much larger enclose (which was called the elliptical building). The elliptical
building is over 300 ft long and 220 ft wide-somewhat larger than a football field. In 1929,
Gertrude Caton-Thompson was the first to conclusively state that the site was indeed created
by Africans. Archaeologists generally agree that the builders probably spoke one of the Shona
languages, and so were members of the Bantu family. There are racists and others who
believe that Phoenicians or Semites created the structures, which are lies. As noted by
Connah, "There was never any doubt about its African origins in the minds of those
who real understood the archaeological evidence.” The Heritage of World Civilization, a
book compiled by Harvard and Yale historians, asserts that the, "civilization was a purely
African one sited far enough inland never to have felt the impact of Islam." (The Heritage of
World Civilizations: Volume One: To 1650, 4th ed. Editor, Owen, Cralyce. Upper Saddle
River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Simon & Shuster, 1997, 512). The ancient Zimbabwe
civilization ended by the 1500’s mostly believe people migrated up north (because of
land exhaustion), Portuguese colonialism, and other reasons. Zimbabwe, Ghana, Songhai,
and other Kingdoms remain as some of the most complex civilizations in the ancient world.
Also, these areas are a testimony to the great, advance civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa.

Many passages from the Talmud and from other racists contributed to promoting the lie that being
black was a curse. Colonialism against Africa didn't just occur by Europeans. Many Asian and Arabic
people stole land in Africa and made slaves of black Africans as well back in the 700's A.D. European
colonialism were more entrenched in the African continent with the British, French, German, Dutch,
Belgium, and other nations lusting after the continent’s resources . The evilness and vileness of
population control is still promoted in Africa now in 2009. Steven Ranson wrote an article entitled,
"AIDS and Population Control," in describing this problem succinctly. The deal is that pharmaceutical
industries are trying to promoting cheap drugs under the guise of "helping" the suffering people of
Africa (including the fight against AIDS). Yet, the catch is that sterilization, abortion, and population
control is promoted in the process. Some of the drugs in Africa and other Third world nations are toxic
in their cosmology. The World Bank and the IMF are using this same catch of population control under
the guise of using loans to Third World nations. Many Africans are suffering through very treatable
diseases. One of the old international bankers involved in these actions was population control
adherent J.D. Rockefeller. Bill Gates. Steven writes:

"...The Durban 2000 AIDS conference, held on July 9-14th 2000, had the funding of fifteen
sponsors, eleven of whom are pharmaceutical industries and/organizations who have a direct
interest in population control. That the Ford Foundation was one of the sponsors of Durban
2000 will come as little surprise to readers au fait with the population control 'league of
friends'. They are billed on their web-site as 'providing grants and loans to projects that
strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international co-
operation, and advance human achievement....Whilst The Ford Foundation funds a number of
worthwhile projects across the globe, it also funds various 'reproductive health' programs that
do not best serve the interests of the recipient. Also, the Ford Foundation's longstanding links
with the Rockefeller Institute, coupled with its own history of CIA collaboration in various
destabilization programmes across Africa in the early 1970s, makes the purpose of the
corporation's attendance at the Durban convention highly questionable...."

It isn't just the Rockefellers involved with this agenda. The Gates Foundation, the Bilderbergers, the
IMF, the World Bank, the WHO (or the World Health Organization), the Rothschilds, and others are
involved in population control (and economic imperialism against the people of Africa). Kissinger's
NSSM 200 from the 1970's blatantly calls for the population control of the Third World (including using
food as a weapon to control people). Bill and Melinda Gates support abortion and have giving at least
$24 billion to population control activities. Numerous vaccines are dangerous. You can only look at
Gardasil to see evidence of this. Bill Gates regularly attends former Communist party boss
Mikhail Gorbachev's annual State of the World Forum held at the former Presidio Army base in
California. Bill Gates supports Planned Parenthood. The American Life League, a pro-life
organization, confronted software mogul Bill Gates years ago. The AFL told him that a World Health
Organization (WHO) tetanus vaccination program (undertaken with Gates' sponsorship) bears striking
resemblance to a similar WHO program (which was exposed as a measure to involuntarily sterilize
young women in the Philippines). Gates has donated $26 million to a WHO tetanus program in
several developing countries. Bill Gates is a slick man indeed.
Black History Month is important to recognize the contributions among those of black descent
indeed. Virgie M. Ammons (he created the fireplace chimney device called a damper to allow
smoke upward out of the house), W.A. Lovette (He invented the advanced printing press), W.
Johnson, W.B. Purvis (He created the fountain pen and the hand stamp), W. H. Sammons, and
dozens of others were great black inventors of various things. It was a black man named
Garret A. Morgan who invented the Automatic Traffic Signal in 1923. There are great modern black
inventors and scientists today as well. For example, Dr. Philip Emeagwali (a Black Nigerian
man) solved 100 math problems in one hour. The African American inventor from Virginia
named Dr. James E. West (with his colleague Gerhard Sessler) invented the Electret
Microphone, and a Black American woman who is named Dr. Shriley Jackson made many
advances in science and mathematics.
Many believe in order to fight Africa's poverty is a return to basics. There needs to be a promotion of
modernization in Africa, real trade, economic liberty and the promotion of real, personal liberty to
those that are suffering. There is nothing wrong with voluntarily sending money and aid to help Africa.
Yet, if a comprehensive solution isn't done, money will only have a limited reach to develop the
continent. Now, there is some good news in Africa. Far too often, the mainstream media and
other factions would focus too much on the negative news going on in Africa. There are
positive news in Africa. According to a study from the United Nations report, in Zimbabwe, there has
been a drop in the infection rate among pregnant women from 26% in 2002 to 18% in 2006 and that
abstinence is playing a role in encouraging people to have less casual sex. In nations like Burkina
Faso, Ethiopia, and others, younger people are reportedly waiting longer to begin having sex. In
Cameroon, the UN study says the percentage of children under 15 having sex has dropped from 35%
to 14%. Fewer people are dying -- a decline of 200,000 from 2006-2007 -- and new infections dropped
by 300,000 last year. "The global HIV epidemic cannot be reversed, and gains in expanding treatment
access cannot be sustained, without greater progress in reducing the rate of new HIV infections," the
report says. To Bush's credit, he allowed some improvements in Africa, yet there is still a very long
way to go in improving Africa. There are rural areas in Africa and urban cities with Internet and
other technological marvels. There are also black people living today in Asia, Latin America,
Mexico, and all of South Africa. So, I will never forget about those black people as well.. Tons
of sub-Saharan Africans (who include whites, blacks, Asians, etc.) possess a high level of
contributions in the world whether people believe that or not. It's funny that many folks want
to harbor hatred (especially against people of color) by using slick, condescending
stereotypes, but rarely offer real solutions to help people the world over. I'm over stupid
stereotypes and dehumanization. I'm all for solutions. Tons of believers in God and leaders
still exist in Africa. Africans of many colors and ethnic groups in the past, present, and the
future will continue to fight for liberty, truth, and justice for all human beings. These are good
news. Black people like all people came from leaders and strong, very intelligent human
beings that created elaborate contributions in human history. That great legacy of Africa from
the past will continue in the present and the future.
By Timothy

The truth is here and will remain forever. You can believe that.

Real Black History ought to be learned 24/7 365 not just in the
month of February

This is dedicated to all people of the world.