African Civilizations
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...as imagined in Western culture is that African civilization didn't exist. Presumably, Africans possessed no cities, no centers of for learning, no advanced political or religious culture or economic systems. Western "authorities" asserted that Africans did not invent systems of writing as did the civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt. There is a distinct problem with this concept of African civilization, which is that it simply isn't true, and isas a matter of facta complete reversal of the truth.
Yet this concept was believed for generations and still lingers in the public mind. An examination of history reveals that the invention of this concept by Europeans was absolutely necessary in order to rationalize European religious beliefs and their treatment of Africans.
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, Europeans developed a profitable capitalistic enterprise, the enslavement of human beings. The slave trade made many of them personally wealthy and greatly enriched their countries. While it is true that slavery was not new to human experience, what was unique about...
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