EGYPT IS AFRICAN

"[I]t is one of the astonishing results of the written history of Africa, that almost universally in the nineteenth century that Egypt was not regarded as part of Africa.Its history and culture were separated from that of the other inhabitants of Africa; it was even asserted that Egypt was in reality Asiatic, and indeed Arnold Toynbee's "Study of History" definitely regarded Egypt as "white", or European! The Egyptians, however, regarded themselves as African. The Greeks looked upon Egypt as part of Africa, geographically and culturally, and every fact of history and anthropology proves that the Egyptians were an African people varying no more from other African peoples than groups like the Scandinavians vary from other Europeans, or groups like the Japanese from other Asiatics. There can be but one adequate explanation of this vagary of nineteenth-century science: it was due to the slave trade and Negro slavery. It was due to the fact that the rise and support of capitalism called for rationalization based on degrading and discrediting the Negroid peoples. It is especially significant that the science of Egyptology arose and flourished at the very time that the cotton kingdom reached its greatest power on the foundation of Negro slavery." p.99, "Egypt," THE WORLD AND AFRICA by W. E. Burghardt DuBois (1946, 1965).jpg" width="319" height="320" data-original-width="956" data-original-height="960" />