Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy [Paperback]

Molefi Kete Asante (Author), Ama Mazama (Author)

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Publication Date: April 2002

Debating the development of civilization in Egypt and Greece, this collection of essays explores European misconceptions of African history. Featuring contributions from some of the top scholars in African American studies, this book analyzes the inconsistencies erupting from academic and Eurocentric reports on ancient culture. It explores such questions as If the pyramids were built in 2800 B.C. and Greek civilization began around 700 B.C., how could the Greeks have contributed or taught Africans math and science? and If the Greeks built pyramids in Egypt, why did they not build a few in Greece?

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About the Author

Molefi Kete Asante, a professor of African American studies at Temple University, created the first African American studies department offering a doctorate degree. He has written more than 30 books, including The Egyptian Philosophers and Afrocentricity. Ama Mazama is a professor of African American studies at Temple University. They both live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: African American Images; 1 edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913543772
• ISBN-13: 978-0913543771
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #51 in Books > History > Ancient > Africa

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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Erudite, informative, challenging, scholarly essays, April 10, 2002

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This review is from: Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy (Paperback)

Egypt vs. Greece And The American Academy: The Debate Over The Birth Of Civilization collaboratively edited by Molefi Asante (Professor of African American Studies, Temple University) and Ama Mazama (Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies, Temple University) is a selection of erudite, informative, challenging, scholarly essays by an eclectic variety of learned authors, each one of whom focuses on different aspects of the rise of human civilization, from how a genetic model compares to ancient African history to observations about Eurosupremacism in academia. A fascinating, involved, iconoclastic compendium, Egypt vs. Greece And The American Academy is very highly recommended reading for students of Black Studies, as well as a seminal and ground-breaking addition to academic reference collections for the study of ancient history and the developmental origins of Western Civilization.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just how deep is the rabbit hole???, May 11, 2008

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Diana Wilson (sparta, ga) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy (Paperback)

In an effort to help us understand what Afro-centricity is and what it aint, a series of black scholars have written various articles on the topic of blackness and the founding of civilization around the world....at issue is whether or not they actually can prove that Africans were undoubtedly the founding fathers of very early civilizations and the intellectual cash brought, developed and spread throughout....The opposition say no, it is impossible for any other civilization to have risen and developed intellectually before and beyond Greece and the Miracle and Rome. The subject is far reaching and controversial...the black scholars have come with an A game that has caused the opposition to step up theirs, only to find that they have to exfoliate some false notions of mythological proportion, of what African people have done and contributed....

Under the litmus test....and brought to you Straight Out of Africa...one of the best essays written by Don Luke pertaining to the Old Norse Saga studies, found significant African cultural contributions to ancient and medieval Scandinavia , some of whom were referred to as Danes. Most profound, because there is a fingerprint which follows and helps to identify a people wherever they go, therefore, swarthy blamenn had a tendency to practice agriculture in contrast to the later indo people...

There are others that are very good...Theophile Obenga and the essay on Thales, the first Greek philosophers, experiences with his international training, as told by his later contemporaries. Clyde A. Winters has written on the ancient African history and its genetic model of which can be used as the analogy to explain the connectivity between ancient African civilization, such as the Olmec, Nubian, Fezzan, Grecian, Pelagian and others. Asa Hilliard has a written essay on the oppositions means of mounting the media war on Afro-centricity and exactly where the payoffs are coming, and lastly who benefits...

The rabbit hole is as deep as it is wide, for the last 500 years the opposition has built a faulty case using bogus scholarship based on racisms, delusions of grandeur, and inventions of superiority. Afro centricity is very much an excellent field, you will find out just how valuable it is once you know what it is...A must have for any thinking street scholar.....

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Complete African History, September 21, 2008

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F. I. Khattab "F. I." - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy (Paperback)

As a student for many years of anthropology, I am sick and tired of the bigoted view of what is Africa, and glad that there is another book of many to recitify the untruths told in a eurocentric perspective of African and her contributions to this world. Even though that Mary Lefkowicz would and does deny tha the the Greeks and Romans learned form us(Africans), this is another book that proves the authenticity of African beginnings of the entire world. any further disagreements with the cultural beginnings of Africa and her cultural contributuion to the earth,I suggest reading some book on geology, which all agree that the frist continent to unthaw and produce life was Africa.