AFRCNA 0031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Slavery In Africa, Neolithic Subpluvial, Basil Davidson
13 Oct 2015
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Abandonment, distortion and untruth in the western tradition. Shows an objective historical understanding of africa"s contribution to the human. Impossible to find a person of european ancestry who saw african context story. Born on november 9, 1914 in bristol, england. He developed a school of modern african history, in which the biases and presumptions against african civilization and its inhabitants were abandoned, and archaeological, anthropological and historical evidence was embraced. Greatest enemies eurocentric egyptologists--- responsible for the western campaign: take egypt out of africa and african"s out of egypt. He had the temerity to report on africa in a fair and balanced way. Buildings stood at the heart of black powerful place. For over 300 years, the coast was organized and systematic cruelty, misery and desecration. Matappa hills tuck away messages from the very dawn of history.
