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5 Eurocentric Myths About Black History, and Pictures That Disprove Them

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:45:10 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com It Was Europeans Who Carried Civilization to ‘Primitive Africans’ Not only were African people the first people on the planet, but there is plenty of evidence to show that Black people built and maintained many of the world’s earliest and most magnificent civilizations. The Greeks are considered by many Euro-American scholars to be [...]

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10 African Kingdoms No One Talks About But Should

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:28:09 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com Bornu Empire (1380–1893) The Bornu Empire was a state of what is now northeastern Nigeria. It was a continuation of the great Kanem Empire founded centuries earlier by the Sayfawa Dynasty. In time, it would become even larger than Kanem, incorporating areas that are today parts of Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Sao [...]

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7 Medieval African Kingdoms Everyone Should Know About

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:28:12 +0000

Source: Atlantablackstar.com While Europe was experiencing its Dark Ages, a period of intellectual, cultural and economic regression from the sixth to the 13th centuries, Africans were experiencing an almost continent-wide renaissance after the decline of the Nile Valley civilizations of Egypt and Nubia. The leading civilizations of this African rebirth were the Axum Empire, the [...]

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100 Things That You Did Not Know About Africa /black People and Why You Should Know Them Now

Consciousness Admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:34:49 +0000

Source: http://www.exposingblacktruth.org Many people have a misconception that Africa has no history, however, studies into history and archeological records has proven that Africa has more rich and great history than what the old historians tried to make us believe. A careful reading of the information below compiled by Dr Robin Walker makes it abundantly clear [...]

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