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Wonderful Ethiopians--An excellent pioneering work,
By RRashidi@swbell.net Runoko Rashidi (San Antonio, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1 (Paperback)
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire represents the crowning achievement of Ms. Drusilla Dunjee Houston. The work was originally published in Oklahoma City in 1926. It is the first known attempt by a Black woman, and perhaps anyone, to produce a multi-volume work on African history told from an African perspective. Ms. Houston herself was an educator, journalist and historian. She spent most of her life in Oklahoma and Arizona and succumbed to tuberculosis in Phoenix, Arizona in 1941. Her work is broad and comprehensive and was quite advanced for its time. Its audience was not confined to scholars but the layperson, particularly Black folk, who were in need of a accurate tonic to boost Black self-esteem. It retains a powerful value even today, more than seventy years since its initial publication.
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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Well researched presentation of ancient African history.,
By wooten@aloha.com (Honolulu, South U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1 (Paperback)
Western civilization has grudgingly recognized that homo sapiens evolved in Africa, within the last 40 years through the work of Richard and Louis Leakey and the discovery of the "Lucy" skelital evidence in Ethiopia. However, Drusilla Huston's book copiously documents legends of of African culture before the dessication of the Sahara and the Egyto-Nubian desserts. She continued with ancient references to the ancient Kushite and Ethiopian civilizations and Kings refered to by Homer, Heroditus, Diodorus, Massey Champoleon and others to flesh out the stories of the Nubian, Nahesey, Napatan, Meroic, Alumic, Egyptian, Summarian and Ethiopean nations over 75 years ago. It is therefore, a prophetic and profound example of pioneering African-American scholarship operating in a bleak and hostile environment over many decades. It's veracity is only enhanced and fortified with the passage of time and recent production of books such as "Black Athena" by Martin Bernal, "Civilization or Barbarism" by Cheik Anta Diop and the 1996 "African Exodus" by Chris Skinner and "Egypt Revisited" edited by Ivan Van Sertima and numerous others.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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reality explored,
By solomon (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire (Paperback)
This book explores the forgotten reality of human history from the source. Genuinely educating book.
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