It is funny when you see a group of people cashing in on an opportunity and you have the opportunity or ability to cash and also, you may just do so, even if there’s no integrity in the cash cow. This is what many Africans had to face during the Atlantic slave trade business era. … [Read more…]
I was there before you, was the phrase I heard from my great uncle as I traveled back to Nigeria to visit relatives. I was a young teenager at the time and my great uncle said, “YES YOU ARE FROM AMERICA… BUT I WAS THERE BEFORE YOU!” I capitalize it because of his commanding deep … [Read more…]
Did you know that there were at least eighteen Ethiopian rulers not mixed with other nation’s seed (pure black/brown) rulers of Ancient Egypt? YES, Ethiopians sat on ancient Egyptian thrones, and one of the more well known rulers was one named Piankhi (R. Krauss and D.A. Warburton, “Chronological Table for the Dynastic Period” in Erik … [Read more…]
The earliest Elamite sites exhibit pottery that has no equivalent in Mesopotamia, but for the succeeding period, the excavated material allows identification with the culture of Sumer of the Uruk period. Proto-Elamite influence from the Persian plateau in Susa becomes visible from about 3200 BC, and texts in the still unclear Proto-Elamite writing system continue … [Read more…]