Sunday, August 26, 2012

John Malveaux: 'EUROPEANS TAUGHT FOR CENTURIES that Africa had no written history, literature or philosophy'

[Lost Libraries (http://community.allhiphop.com/discussion/457498/powerful-black-images/p8)]

 John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com sends the above picture and this link:

EUROPEANS TAUGHT FOR CENTURIES that Africa had no written history, literature or philosophy (claiming Egypt was other than African). When roughly 1 MILLION manuscripts were found in Timbuktu/Mali covering, according to Reuters "all the fields of human knowledge: law, the sciences, medicine," IT DID NOT MAKE MAINSTREAM NEWS" 


The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu 1 of 5 - BBC Travel Documentary

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The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu 1 of 5 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 17.04.2010 

Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans.
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  1. Sisko241August 27, 2012 at 4:47 PM

    Thank you for this reminder of the spectacular find at Timbuktu. That Africans could and would have had written history should have been obvious. But I did have a teacher or two who said Africans didn't leave written history. Being that I was in junior high school at the time and unable to disprove them, I felt cowed into silence. But now I'm pleased to see that wrongful history corrected.

    Thank you.

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