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Paint a picture of tomorrow and you draw from the colors of the past !

If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors.

– African Proverb
The most pathetic thing is for a slave who doesn't know that he is a slave Holocaust

Malcolm X

Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 6:06PM
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Today terms like sub-Saharan Africa dominate history books and discussions on Africa. But this term is not an African construction but yet another European linguistic tool to divide and conquer. It is a vestige of the colonial project used to describe European terms of African homogeneity. This barrier of sand hence confines Africans to the bottom of this make-believe location, which exists neither politically (African Union), ethnically (Tuareg), linguistically (Afro-Asiatic), religiously (Islam) or physically (Sudan and Mali). Sub-Saharan Africa is used as a by-word for primitive African: a place, which has escaped advancement. Hence, we see statements like, “no written languages exist in Sub-Saharan Africa” and “Egypt is not a Sub-Saharan African civilization.” It is a term used to satisfy negative perceptions and feed the "Dark Continent." Black or African

Part of any examination of Slavery and it's legacy must also look at how language is use to favor European interest and justify slavery. "Black on Black" violence in Africa is a term which is used to say Slavery was self-inflicted. But then the Jewish Holocaust would be "White on White." Words have powerful meanings and a serious effect on historical perception. Black or African
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 6:44PM
DAVID JOHNSON