Over the past five hundred years, Euro-centric scholarship, albeit Eurocentrism, has sought to convince the world that nothing came out of Mother Africa but defenseless, powerless slaves and that the inhabitants of this continent were uncivilized, barbaric, primitive cannibals---non-human beings.
These people contributed nothing to world civilization and culture, according to this Euro-centric interpretation of history or His-Story.
However, an Afro-centric interpretation of world history reveals a totally different, but true, picture or Story. Truth be told:
The fact of the matter is that while all these inventions took place in the A.D. era, let us recall that in the B.C. era, Africans (Kemites) of ancient Kemet (Egypt) invented the binary mathematical system, which is the spinal cord of the computer system today.
Moreover, in 47 B.C., the High Priests of ancient Kemet performed the world\'s first recorded medical operation. These original medical doctors delivered Pharaoh Cleopatra\'s VII son called Caesarion or \"Little Caesar\" through this procedure named after his father, Julius Caesar, then Emperor of Rome. This ancient medical procedure is called the \"Caesarean Section\" today. The operation was done at the Temple of Kom Ombo---Africans invented medicine. According to the Euro-Greek Homer, \"In medicine, Egypt leaves the rest of the world behind.\"
Africans: invented the world\'s first Zodiac sign at the Temple of Dendera in 300 B.C; the 365¼ day Solar calendar in 4,100 B.C.; the 24-hour day; and paper using the papyrus plant.
In religion, three of the early Popes of the Euro-Christian Roman Catholic Church were African (Black) men, viz, Saints Gelasius, 492 A.D., Miltiades, 311 A.D., and Victor 1, 189-199 A.D. The African Pope Victor I decreed Latin as \"the liturgical language of the Roman Catholic Church.\"
Bro. Malcolm X once remarked: \"If I can convince you that you have done nothing then you will do nothing.\"
What is vitally needed is a new, holistic educational paradigm in public schools to bring to the fore the historical geniousness of African people.
Africans are the original people with original ideas and if it were not for an African of yesterday, then there would not be a Europe or America today. Nothing in Europe is original, including the Europeans themselves. The continent of Europe is named after Princess Europa of Mother Africa.
As Itabari Njeri concludes: \"So institutionalized is the ignorance of our history, our culture, our everyday existence that often we do not even know ourselves. \"So, where would the world be without African (Black) people? The world would still be in the DARK!
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