“Egypt and the nations of the Nile Valley figuratively were the beating heart of Africa and the incubator for its greatness for more than a thousand years. Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as ‘Western Civilization,’ long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.” “This is part of the African story, and in the distance it is a part of the African American story. It is difficult for depressed African Americans to know that they are a part of the larger story of the history of the world. The history of the modern world was made, in the main, by what was taken from African people. Europeans emerged from what they call their ‘Middle-Ages’ people-poor, land-poor, and resource-poor. And to a great extent, they were culture-poor. They raided and raped the cultures of the world, mostly African, and filled their homes and museums with treasures, and then they called their victims primitive. The Europeans did not understand the cultures of non-Western people then; they do not understand them now.” “History, I have often said, is a clock that people use to tell their political time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been. It also tells a people where they are and what they are. Most importantly, history tells a people where they still must go and what they still must be.” “There is no way to go directly to the history of African Americans without taking a broader view of African World History. In ‘Tom-Tom,’ the writer John W. Vandercook makes this meaningful statement: ‘A race is like a man. Until it uses its own talents, takes pride in its own history, and loves its own memories it can never fulfill itself completely.’ John Henrik Clarke-Foreword Book “African World History Project: The Preliminary Challenge” The Djehuty Project: African-Centered Think Tank and Research Institution 1996 Edited by Jacob H. Carruthers and Leon C. Harris Page xvii
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