Black and African History lecture
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The second in the set of four Black History Month Lecture Series: Part II: Contributionism: The History of High Cultures and Civilisations in African Antiquity.
An Introduction to African & Black History by historian Abu-Bakr Madden Al-Shabbaz in recognition and celebration of Black History 2020.
This session will focus on the high cultural practices engineered by black people in the African continent such as: Ancient Kemet (Egypt), Nubia, Kush, Carthage, Moorish Empire, Mali, and Songhay. We will also touch on African high cultures in Asia such as: Sumer and the Elam of what is now known as Mesopotamia and Persia. Although European scholarship deems Africans to be primitive, savage and barbaric while they see themselves as being cultured and civilised; this section will look into the reality of empire building by blacks when whites were still living in caves around Europe during the dark age being unable to produce basic wood and stone structures. This episode will introduce learners to the first or earliest civilisations in which black Africans created – independently, to establish a high cultural society from ancient times beginning with the first black king Nimrod.