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What makes it worse is that we take so much time labeling all the previous eras and millennium of the world. Even the fact that we have names for all of these periods is disconcerting. Mesozoic, Cretaceous, Paleozoic, Cambrian. Who can name these periods except for kindergarteners who spend too much time hugging stuffed dinosaurs and trading erasers shaped like pre-historical animals...
Hence, argued the founding father of Afrocentrist history, the late Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop, whatever is Egyptian is African, part of the lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements...
...technological innovation so absurd that they lie beyond satire, like those made for Soviet science in Stalin's time. Afrocentrists have at one time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell battery by observing electric eels in the Nile; and that late in the 1st millennium B.C., they took to flying around in gliders. (This news is based not on the discovery of an aircraft in an Egyptian tomb but on a silhouette wooden votive sculpture of the god Horus, a falcon, that a passing English businessman mistook some decades ago for a model airplane.) Some...
...anguish for the single country, forged over a millennium, beautiful, horrible, yet spiritual and poetic, created and lived in by my forefathers, grandfather, father and mother...
...upheaval, a planetary neighbor and a man from the 3rd millennium...