Culture, Culture And Culture In Africa And The History Of Africa

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When it comes to the African continent we could say that we've heard a lot and nothing at the same time, this is because the history of Africa is barely starting to be written and we are somehow ignorant to the great wonders of this huge and vast continent. Its large and magnificent empires, kings and queens that ruled for generations, centuries at times and also is host of spectacular ruins scattered widely throughout the continent, but even with all these wonderful things that this continent offers to this day there are those who say, and think that Africa is a continent without history, culture and has offered nothing to the world in any form or manner. Africa has always been seen and perceived as the dark continent, this because Europeans claimed and saw the Africans as people without culture, progress and because they were different Europeans concluded that the continent was plunged into a dark age and this is where the term "dark continent" comes from. Africa has always been a source of debate in terms of culture, technology, economy, and in every way you can imagine, it has been labeled as the dark continent from centuries ago just for not being at the forefront as the other continents and although it not called in this way anymore there are still people who think of Africa in the same way. Oyebade argues:
The pseudo-intellectual basis for the "dark continent" ideology was provided by scholars engaged in critical discourse supposedly on the cultures and peoples of Africa. (10)
He basically is saying that this was one of the many excuses for Europeans to deemed people and the continent to be inferior. But as in any discussion or argument there is always the exception to the rule and this is the case of Ancient Egypt, which ...

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Cheikh Anta Diop was one of the many Afrocentrists in stating that: the making of the ancient Egyptian civilization was the work of Africans. It is Malthus Appropriate to connect with ancient Egypt African history. (19) He tries to make clear is that it is impossible to write the history of Africa or ancient Egypt without the necessary connections, one can not talk about one without mentioning the other. "The effect of the European conquests on Egyptian civilization was more lasting and crucial Earlier Than That of any alien regimes. One important factor is political and military monitoring That was more absolute under the Macedonian Ptolemies, and later the Romans, than ever before(The History of Ancient Egypt)". This lets us know that the Europeans fought so much on Egypt been part of Africa to almost destroyed it with colonization.

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