Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, June 26, 2017
RESTORATION CONSCIOUSNESS
RESTORATION CONSCIOUSNESS

Exactitude and precision in the measurement and description of natural phenomena is the basis of mathematics as that science was developed scientifically by Africans over many eons. It was the method of their religion and civilizations.
These facts I have learned from studying such works as AFRICAN MATHEMATICS by Robin Walker (2014), AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY THE PHARAONIC ERA 2780-330 BC by Theophile Obenga (2004); by reading the rich and varied works of Cheikh Anta Diop, John G. Jackson, J. A. Rogers and others; and by reading its admission in THE LAWS by Plato, who says there that children's mathematics games at play were such as to put full grown Greek men to ignominious shame .
Our STOLEN LEGACY -- to borrow the title of Dr. George G.M. James' classic-- also consists of an awareness of our own broader historical knowledge loss; that of the African people's primordial identity with mathematical mastery, in scientific, technical, educational and spiritual realms which was our forebears' greatest gift to posterity.
To have lost the knowledge of what was lost by the waves of invasive species from of outside of Africa, wave upon wave, like army ants at a family picnic, we were routed! But we, Africans in the Americas, have genetically resulted from their rout.
So our restoration-consciousness truly must consist of reacquiring the multidimensional mathematical African knowledge that once was lost, but now is found. That same gift of restoration-consciousness, if reacquired, will enable us to know that what was lost, was never lost, but reconstituted anew, since as in divine physics, it is still here like us!