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INTERESTING ESSAYS ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS, December 16, 2010
This review is from: Essays in Ancient Egyptian Studies (Paperback)
Jacob Hudson Carruthers (1930-2004) was a professor at Northeastern Illinois University.
He writes in the Introduction to this 1984 book, "The decision to focus on Ancient Egypt was made after a long period of study and debate ... the reasons were that Ancient Egypt offered the best presently known source of data about the uncorrupted African past with enough data to not only verify the facts of African civilization but to begin the construction of a framework to reinterpret the hsitory and social reality of the world."
Here are some quotations from the book:
"The African worldview is essential to a proper explanation of world history. Otherwise, we are merely engaging in the old Negro history game of adding the Negro contribution to white history." (Pg. 14)
"We must, thus, abandon the alien identifications of our mecca and replace them with with concepts by which (Kemet) identified themselves and their land. By so doing, we can affirm our own identity as well as show respect for our ancestors." (Pg. 28)
"In sum, few if any Black scholars have been able to disentangle the data from the dictates of nomadic historiography and this has resulted in obstacles to full development of an African historiography." (Pg. 35-36)
"Of what relevance for us today is this ancient African worldview of the Creation? ... this is still the basic orientation of most African people, even many of us who have been trained to 'know better.' Thus, if we are to know our people we must know our mentality." (Pg. 73)
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