It clearly now appears from sources cited within Ayi Kwei Armah's fine book, THE ELOQUENCE OF THE SCRIBES (2006), that, rather than we being allegorical or archetypal descendants of Ancient Egyptians, we, African Americans, are their actual, genetic heritage, kinfolks !
I had read accounts similar to this in THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION by Dr. Chancellor Williams back in the 1970s. Later, in the 1980s, I saw these claims again in the iconic works of Cheikh Anta Diop. But not until tonight, as I read Dr. Armah's work, is the migratory latch from Egypt to West, Central, South Africa, emphatically sealed!
Armah's "method was to work my way back through the history of verbal art in Africa, beginning in the colonial and neocolonial present, then dipping into the era of our feudal kingdoms. Oral traditions from that period pointed back, rather insistently, to a time of migrations from the Nile Valley. "
190 P. "Traditions of Migration"
The work is magnificent, edifying, brilliant, redemptive of the identity of who we really are, and what!
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
THE ELOQUENCE OF THESCRIBES
It clearly now appears from sources cited within Ayi Kwei Armah's fine book, THE ELOQUENCE OF THE SCRIBES (2006), that, rather than we being allegorical or archetypal descendants of Ancient Egyptians, we, African Americans, are their actual, genetic heritage, kinfolks !
I had read accounts similar to this in THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION by Dr. Chancellor Williams back in the 1970s. Later, in the 1980s, I saw these claims again in the iconic works of Cheikh Anta Diop. But not until tonight, as I read Dr. Armah's work, is the migratory latch from Egypt to West, Central, South Africa, emphatically sealed!
Armah's "method was to work my way back through the history of verbal art in Africa, beginning in the colonial and neocolonial present, then dipping into the era of our feudal kingdoms. Oral traditions from that period pointed back, rather insistently, to a time of migrations from the Nile Valley. "
190 P. "Traditions of Migration"
The work is magnificent, edifying, brilliant, redemptive of the identity of who we really are, and what!
