Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Who Is An African?
This question needs to be asked. The ancient land that the Hebrews called CUSH and the Greeks later called Ethiopia/Egypt, was renamed Africa by the Romans. According to the Greek historian, Herodotus, fifth century B.C., Egyptians were black skinned with woolly hair. The term Egypt was once used to mean all of Africa, which was called the Land of Ham. But before Adam and Eve did the continent have a name? All the Pyramids on the African continent, not only those in present day Egypt, but those in the Sudan and the two in Northern Ethiopia, were built thousands of years before there was an Adam and Eve mentioned anywhere on the planet. When we get to the birth of Abraham, the Africans along the Nile were already in their thirteenth dynastic period. So who were these people and what did they call themselves? To be defined by others, named by others and spoken for by others is really dehumanizing. From Mother Africa to the Carribean, Brazil, the United States of America, the Australian Outback and all places where black skinned and woolly haired persons exist, WAKE UP!
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