I am a student of history; I take serious George Santayana's reasoning that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". I respect and honor all the pains and horrors of history equally, but somehow I cannot garner that respect for my African Ancestry.
It is safe to say most humans have had their cultures (forcefully and willingly) influenced by Western European Societies and its subsequent cultures, especially the United States of America. For centuries humanity has been showered by the exploits and achievements of these cultures, with little or no acknowledgement that these cultures were directly influenced by many non-European cultures. Without the mighty cultures of Africa (i.e. Nubia, Egypt, Mali and Songhai), and Asia (i.e. Babylon, Assyria, Persia, Saudi Arabia) there would be no Western European cultures. The Ancient Greeks and Romans knew this, hence their fascination with Kemet, the REAL name of Egypt (Greek given name). The land of the black soil and Black people was a successful imperial state, later invaded by Asians and Europeans thus the varied mix of people you see in the geo-political region labeled the Middle East today.
Despite the current education curriculums the Mediterranean Region was and is a multi-cultured world of Africans, Asians, and Europeans. With the major civilizations arising in Africa and Asia laying the foundation for what would become the mighty Greek and Roman States, and thus the cultures of Western Europe.
But I digress...Let the history speak for itself...Below are a list of articles from around the World Wide Web that explore the glories of the African Peoples on Five Continents. Enjoy, learn, and love the humans often disregarded from World History-the Africans.
The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
An online magazine about Afro-Latin culture. Our feature articles highlight the diversity of the Latino community with an emphasis on the African influence in the music, art, film, spirituality, literature and history of Latino culture.
It is known that many Africans intermarried with Native Americans. Less widely known is the fact that many Native Americans also owned African slaves, and fathered children with African slave women. In addition there were smaller numbers Free People of Color who lived in many of the nations and who also lived and married persons from the same nations.
It is not easy to present a contiguous story of the African presence in pre-modern Asia. Many medieval sources refer to Africans in West Asia, but much of this literature is in Arabic…In this article, we present glimpses into the ancient and medieval Asia that African emigres lived in.
Long before the first slave ships started supplying labour to the cotton plantations of the American south, and many centuries before the first Africans were brought ashore to the sugar estates of Brazil and the Caribbean, Africans were being sold as slave-soldiers for India's princely states…Although they came at first as slaves, they were so successful as fighters that they at times usurped power from the rulers they were supposed to be serving…They are known as Sidis.
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