“The Europeans are not yet willing to acknowledge that the world did not wait in darkness for them to bring the light, and that the history of Africa was already old when Europe was born.”
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John Henrik Clarke, “Education for a New Reality in the African World” (1994)
Amen
(via youngblackandvegan)
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So I’ve taken a prehistory of Europe and a prehistory of Africa class, and let me tell you, the African one was waaaay more interesting and complex.