Pan Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy Of Nigerias Afri-capitalism And South Africas Ubuntu Business (contemporary African Political Economy)
by Rita Kiki Edozie /
2017 / English / PDF
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It was G.W.F. Hegel who once claimed that Africa has no history. The rise of the Ibadan School of history helped to successfully contest this claim. The advanced civilization and history of Egypt also proved impossible for denialists of African history to ignore. Forced by the truth, denialists finally conceded only to turn around and claim that, while White Africans were capable, Black Africans were incapable of innovation, leadership, self-rule, and advanced civilization.
So, in the case of Egypt, it was White Egyptians or White Africans in Apartheid South Africa who were the capable Africans. Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop counted this revisionist doctrine in his path-breaking book, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974), where he demonstrated that the Pharaohs in Egypt were, in fact, Black.
