The Birth of The Kemetic Egyptology (Kemitology).
with Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop & Dr.Theophile Obenga (1974).Videos: Ancient West African Cities Participants List of Cairo Symposium in 1974
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop: The'Pharoah of Knowledge'.
Cheikh Anta Diop assembled host of amazing evidences, ranging from linguistics, archeology, anthropology, history, philosophy, sociology and science at large. He succeeded in reconstructing the scientific past of Africa and stunningly demonstrated in the Cairo conference, 1974, that ancient egyptian civilization was black and that the pharoahs were negroes. Consequently, Dr. Cheikh A. Diop set up a rupture from the classical orthodox thinking that Egypt was all except Black.
Dr. Cheikh A. Diop calls upon Africans to build their social value systems and sciences from the fundations led by the African ancestry in Egypt. That could only be done, if Africans themselves realized the plain truth which has remained hidden for centuries.
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop equally calls for genuine collaboration and better relationships among different races based on historical truth, where no race will assume superiority based on color of skin.
"Thus imperialism, like the prehistoric hunter, first kill the being spiritually and culturally, before trying to eliminate it physically. The negation of the history and intellectual accomplishments of Black Africans was cultural, mental murder, which preceded and paved the way for their genocide here and there in the world."
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop
Dr. Theophile Obenga: Egyptologist & Disciple of Cheikh A. Diop.
For Dr. Theophile Obenga, African philosophy was born before the Greek, Indian, Chinese and before any other philosophy.
Africa is not only the cradle of human race, civilizations, but also the cradle to philosophical thinking, writing and symbolism.
He challenges -those who say "Africa does not have a philosophy" to prove any cradle of philosophy other than Africa. Black man had answers to all he needed to know about the universe; life, the meaning of happiness, the goal of existence, etc. Even in time of the Greeks and Romans dominion, with the advent of christianity, there were still great african philosophers. We could mention Saint Augustin, founding father of the Catholic Church, Manethon, Claudius of Carthage, Ibn Badjdja, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Kwame Nkrumah, etc.
Dr. Obenga affirms that the first universities in Europe were built in spain by Africans. Even in Africa before european colonialism, there were great universities in Africa: the University of Sankore in Tombouctou, Mali, the University of Gao, and the University of Djene. For Dr. Obenga, there's no such thing as scientifical knowledge belonging to one race. Science is a collection of contributions through out ages by all races including the Back.
According to Dr. Theophile Obenga, when you are destroyed in your thinking, in the way you think, you have no more existence. One on the problem of African renaissance to liberate today's black man's thinking.
Dr. Molefi Asante Kete: Father of Afrocentricity.
"Africa's influence on ancient Greece, the oldest European civilization, was profound and significant in art, architecture, astronomy, medicine, geometry, mathematics, law, politics, and religion. Yet there has been a furious campaign to discredit African influence and to claim a miraculous birth for Western civilization. A number of books and articles by white and some black conservatives seek to disprove the Egyptian influence on Greece."
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By Dr. Melofi Kete Asante
"The Afrocentric paradigm is a revolutionary shift in thinking proposed as a constructural adjustment to black disorientation, decenteredness, and lack of agency. The Afrocentrist asks the question, “What would African people do if there were no white people?” In other words, what natural responses would occur in the relationships, attitudes toward the environment, kinship patterns, preferences for colors, type of religion, and historical referent points for African people if there had not been any intervention of colonialism or enslavement? Afrocentricity answers this question by asserting the central role of the African subject within the context of African history, thereby removing Europe from the center of the African reality. In this way, Afrocentricity becomes a revolutionary idea because it studies ideas, concepts, events, personalities, and political and economic processes from a standpoint of black people as subjects and not as objects, basing all knowledge on the authentic interrogation of location."
Dr. Molefi kete Asante.
