IHalf a century ago, the Senegalese researcher Cheikh Anta Diop posed the question of the negritude of Egypt and the anteriority of Negro civilizations. Today, it is from North America that we hear the echoes of such a challenge to the history written by whites. There are many themes. Are we not all the children of a black Eve? Wasn't the first civilization African, then radiating from its Egyptian cradle to classical Greece? Didn't the goddess Athena have a black origin? Didn't the Hebrews have Ethiopia for their true homeland? The rewriting of Africans' past, seen in the light of Pharaonic Egypt, gives rise to a rereading of the European past. The Greco-Latin humanities are opposed to the Negro-Egyptian humanities. Young blacks from the metropolises of northern countries learn hieroglyphics and sing against the Babylon of the Whites. And in the countries of the South, the Bantus are set up as equivalents of the Aryans. Further on, America would have been discovered and populated by blacks, already present in pre-Columbian civilizations. All scholarly historiography is therefore suspected of a planetary plot against black peoples, whose cultural heritage it would have stolen in order to better enslave them. This so-called Eurocentric science is therefore challenged by an Afro-centric history of the world. The object of this book is to better understand the argumentation of this current, to discuss its sources and methods, to understand its motivations and to analyze its networks, without forgetting the centuries of oppression and discrimination weighing on the black condition, nor the current aspirations for a black renaissance.
Release Date | 2020-05-04T00:00:00.000Z |
Edition | 3e edition |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 410 |
Publication Date | 2010-01-09T00:00:00.000Z |
Format | Kindle Ebook |