Title:
Africa : mother of Western civilization
Author:
Ben-Jochannan, Yosef.
ISBN:
9780933121256
Personal Author:
Edition:
Student's and researcher's ed.
Publication Information:
Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press, 1988, ©1971.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 717, [19] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series:
African-American heritage series
African-American heritage series.
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Alkebu-lan Books, ©1971.
Includes indexes.
Contents:
The dawn of civilization; and, The value of a name -- Prehistoric homosapiens or ancient African man -- Who were/are the Africans of ancient Alkebu-lan (Africa) -- Historic quotations and comments about, and of, the Africans -- People who made Nile Valley history yesterday and today -- Racism, historians, and Ethiopians -- The return of Kimit, Zimbabwe, and Nubia to the continent of Alkebu-lan (Africa) -- Nubia- "mother of Kimit"- gateway to the north -- Predynastic and dynastic Kimit, Nubia, and Kush -- The Egyptian dynasties and comments by high-priest Manetho -- Notes on Egyptology, etc. --African origin of "Greek philosophy" -- Arguments and answers relative to the African origins of "Greek philosophy" -- Who were the indigenous Africans of Kimit (Egypt) -- Reflections on ancient Kimit (Sais or Egypt) -- Chronology of Egyptian rule over Kush and Nubia -- "Cleopatra's needle" : a stolen African treasure in America.
The rise and fall of the Africans of Khart Haddas (Carthage) -- The Black man of antiquity -- What "Black is beautiful" is not ready to hear -- Judaism, the "Black Jew" or "Israelite" -- Roots of biblical "anti-Negroism," etc. : a cause for Black "anti-Semitism" -- A lecture on the beginnings of the Christian church in North and East Africa -- The Africans right to be wrong is sacred.
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Electronic Access:
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