Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A Speculative Question on Colonialism and Western Contact with Africa

Toyin you are much wiser than this post.

You refuse to study ancient northeast Africa

or Williams, Rodney, Inikori, Blaut, as well as the numerous eurocentrics who have recanted, 

because their views do not fit your model. Grow your intellect. You are still mired in the slime

of 19th century  European racism.

I  still wonder why you chose to do a somersault and become a  barbarian and a self hater -  but

redemption is still possible.

I believe Molefi Asante will be interviewed

a few weeks from now. Go listen. Free your mind.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Really?

On what grounds would the West be a desert in any sense?

Most  African peooles could neither read nor write till the West colonised Africa.

We're they not much more developed than Africa before they arrived in Africa?

I dread the idea of living in pre-colonial Africa, without writing, without books, without significant knowledge of the world outside the small sphere represented by oral traditions.

Thanks

Toyin

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 13:00 'Patrick Effiboley' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The West would have been an epistemological and scientific desert or at least something less dominant and less brilliant than what it currently is.

Dr Emery Patrick EFFIBOLEY

Maître-Assitant en Histoire de l'Art

Chef, Département d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Bénin

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg,(2014-2016) 

www.researchgate.net/Profile/Emery_Effiboley

 

Le mercredi 1 septembre 2021, 05:18:06 UTC+2, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> a écrit :

And what would the West be without Africa?

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department, Central Connecticut State University
www.africahistory.net

http://web.ccsu.edu/afstudy/archive.html

Chief Editor- "Africa Update"

www.vimeo.com/gloriaemeagwali

Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries

2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies

 University of Texas at Austin

2019   Distinguished Africanist Award                   

New York African Studies Association

 

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If you had a chance to change history so that Africa did not experience colonisation and so never had any contact with the West at the scale it had, would you do it? 

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