NNegro ations and culture is a combat exposed in two phases. First, a crusade for the reconquest of confidence in the Negroid identity demolished by the slave trade and the colonization of Africa, then a phase of reconstruction, of strengthening of this identity via African languages. Diop begins by asking a fundamental question about the identity of the ancient Egyptians: Were they Negroes?
From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, Western slave traders particularly doubted the ability of blacks to be humans and found a civilization. These ideologues speculated that Egyptian civilization was the work of a white and mixed “race”. Diop tells us that this doubt is only recent. Its backdrop is the so-called racial hegemony, that of certain Westerners based on whiteness, a myth that justified and supported the slave trade in America and the colonization of Africa. According to Diop, this is an attempt to stifle the negroid genius. What motivation can we have behind the idea of dispossessing an entire “race”, the black people, of all their cultural references, of an organizational, social or political genius? It is undoubtedly to root the myth little by little in the Negro that he has brought nothing to humanity and that all that has been accomplished previously was the result of other “races”.
This falsification campaign on the history of the Negroid people could not last. This had to be clarified. In his book, Diop demonstrates that the Negroes were the first to set up a knowledge system in various fields (scientific, hieroglyphic, philosophical, cosmogonic, paradigmatic, etc.). As such, they have long been ahead of other civilizations. In reality, the cradle of humanity was the first to reach the pinnacle of social and political organization. The other populations from elsewhere, such as the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Asians and the Arabs, awoke to a large number of rigorous knowledge thanks to their contact with ancient Egypt.
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Negro Nations and Culture: From Egyptian Nepot Antiquity to the Cultural Problems of Today's Black Africa
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| Release Date | 2000-07-11T00:00:01Z |
| Edition | 4e edition |
| Language | French |
| Number Of Pages | 564 |
| Publication Date | 2000-07-11T00:00:01Z |
