•African civilization that existed long before colonialism.
•Europeans never introduced civilization to Africa.
•Romans portrayed Northern euros are savages.
•Europeans never introduced civilization to Africa.
•Romans portrayed Northern euros are savages.
They won’t teach you in school that Africans had their own writing systems before the advent of Europeans and Arabs on African Soil.
Here are the list of African ancient writing systems.
1. Ethiopic Writing System
2. Egyptian (Kemetic) Hieroglyphs
3. Afan Oromo Writing System
4. Sudanic Writing System
5. Nsibidi Writing System (Southern Nigeria)
6. Edo/Benin Writing Sytem
7. Tifinagh Writing System (Libyan ancient writing system)
8. Bamum Writing System (now in Cameroon)
9. Kikakui Writing System ( Ancient Sierra Leone)
10. N'ko Writing System (Ancient Guinea)
11. Mandombe Writing System (Ancient Congo)
12. Shumom Writing System
Here are the list of African ancient writing systems.
1. Ethiopic Writing System
2. Egyptian (Kemetic) Hieroglyphs
3. Afan Oromo Writing System
4. Sudanic Writing System
5. Nsibidi Writing System (Southern Nigeria)
6. Edo/Benin Writing Sytem
7. Tifinagh Writing System (Libyan ancient writing system)
8. Bamum Writing System (now in Cameroon)
9. Kikakui Writing System ( Ancient Sierra Leone)
10. N'ko Writing System (Ancient Guinea)
11. Mandombe Writing System (Ancient Congo)
12. Shumom Writing System
CAUCASIANS ON ANCIENT KEMETIC PEOPLE
“To the Greek and Latin writers contemporary with the ancient Kemetians the latter’s physical classification posed no problems: the Kemetians were negroes, thick-lipped, kinky-haired and thin-legged”.
“Herodotus, ‘the father of history with regard to the origins of the Colchians he writes:
I myself guessed it, partly because they(Egyptians) are dark-skinned and woolly-haired; though that indeed counts for nothing, since other peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision.
The great French philosopher Constantine de Volney on a visit to Egypt in 1787 would put it beautifully "Just think," de Volney declared incredulously, "that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!
Diodorus states, “They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. For, speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they maintain, was not land but sea when in the beginning the universe was being formed; afterwards, however, as the Nile during the times of its inundation carried down the mud from Ethiopia, land was gradually built up from the deposit. .
Aristotle (389 BCE - 332 BCE) says, “‘Those who are too black are cowards, like for instance, the Egyptians and Ethiopians. But those who are excessively white are also cowards as we can see from the example of women, the complexion of courage is between the two’”
Lucian (Greek writer, 125 - 190 BCE) describing a young Egyptian states, “‘This boy is not merely black; he has thick lips’”
Quote from Aeschylus (when describing the Egyptians): "I can see the crew with their black limbs and white tunics."
Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus [Latin historian, 330 - 395 CE] said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."
Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones".
References
Greek text and English translation of the Histories in A. D. Godley (ed.), Herodotus, Histories, vol. I (Book I and II). The Loeb Classical Library 117 (1920):
Book lll (beginning) Contents of the Third Book of Diodorus (University of Chicago) 90-21 B.C.
“To the Greek and Latin writers contemporary with the ancient Kemetians the latter’s physical classification posed no problems: the Kemetians were negroes, thick-lipped, kinky-haired and thin-legged”.
“Herodotus, ‘the father of history with regard to the origins of the Colchians he writes:
I myself guessed it, partly because they(Egyptians) are dark-skinned and woolly-haired; though that indeed counts for nothing, since other peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision.
The great French philosopher Constantine de Volney on a visit to Egypt in 1787 would put it beautifully "Just think," de Volney declared incredulously, "that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!
Diodorus states, “They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. For, speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they maintain, was not land but sea when in the beginning the universe was being formed; afterwards, however, as the Nile during the times of its inundation carried down the mud from Ethiopia, land was gradually built up from the deposit. .
Aristotle (389 BCE - 332 BCE) says, “‘Those who are too black are cowards, like for instance, the Egyptians and Ethiopians. But those who are excessively white are also cowards as we can see from the example of women, the complexion of courage is between the two’”
Lucian (Greek writer, 125 - 190 BCE) describing a young Egyptian states, “‘This boy is not merely black; he has thick lips’”
Quote from Aeschylus (when describing the Egyptians): "I can see the crew with their black limbs and white tunics."
Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus [Latin historian, 330 - 395 CE] said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."
Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones".
References
Greek text and English translation of the Histories in A. D. Godley (ed.), Herodotus, Histories, vol. I (Book I and II). The Loeb Classical Library 117 (1920):
Book lll (beginning) Contents of the Third Book of Diodorus (University of Chicago) 90-21 B.C.