From: "nkrumah lumumba" <[log in to unmask]>

> The legacy of Chancellor Williams in: The Destruction of Black
> Civilization-
> PART ONE
>
> This powerful book is re-examined today for Black History Month. Williams
> takes us back to ancient Black civilization in Africa and through
> painstaking research reconstructs history giving us a true picture of the
> evolution of Africa.
>
>
>
> The origins of Black civilization
>
>
> Dr Chancellor Williams: Photo courtesy of Oggi Ogburn
> Upper Ethipoia, rich in food production stirred the envy of Asia and
> Europe
> which caused migrants from these continents to settle in Africa
>
> Dr Chancellor Williams
> Dr Chancellor James Williams was born in Bennettsville, South Carolina on
> 22
> December 1898 to a father who had once been a slave and a mother who was a
> cook, nurse and evangelist.
>
> After receiving an undergraduate degree in Education and a master's degree
> in History from Howard University, Williams became a visiting research
> scholar at Oxford University and the University of London in England.
>
> However, it was William's research in African history at Ghana University
> in
> West Africa in 1956 that was the beginning of his focus on ancient African
> civilizations and achievements. In 1964 he looked at 26 countries and more
> than 100 language groups.
>
> Renowned as a novelist, historian, author and university Professor,
> Williams
> is best remembered for his epic work: The Destruction of Black
> Civilization:
> Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC to 2000 AD which we will now look at.
>
> Williams motivation for writing 'The Destruction of Black Civilization'
> stemmed from his belief that white scholars always told the history of
> Africa as a tale of Arabs and Europeans but never included Africans in
> Africa.
>
> In his book he asserted that Black kings and pharaohs of Upper Egypt were
> erased out of history and African names were replaced with Arabic ones.
>
> According to Williams's research the history of the Black race began in
> Ethiopia and Sudan (formerly southern Ethiopia). The meaning of Sudan is
> 'land of the Blacks' just as Egypt was once called 'land of the Blacks'.
>
> In ancient times Upper Ethiopia became rich in food production and
> "stirred
> the envy of Asia and Europe which caused migrants from these continents to
> settle in Africa."
>
> Asian and European occupation of the seacoasts of North Africa was easy
> and
> first welcomed by the indigenous Black population as trading opportunities
> but then poor nomads started to flood the most fertile and accessible
> areas
> in North Africa.
>
> According to Williams the weaker and more submissive Blacks remained in
> Asian-occupied territory and became slave labourers. The sexual
> trafficking
> of Black women produced a new breed of Afro-Asians who were classed as
> white
> or Asian, but not as Black people.
>
> Williams writes that many of the mixed race Africans objected to
> identification as Black and became known as Egyptians. These mixed race
> Africans joined with their Asian fathers to enslave Blacks until all of
> North Africa fell into their hands.
>
> The Asians and Europeans took over the best quarter of African land, the
> most fertile and inhabitable, leaving the remaining three quarters of
> virtually uninhabitable land to the indigenous Africans:
>
> "[They] became a wandering people, forever migrating in their own vast
> homeland, fragmenting from great united nations into countless little
> splinter societies, considering themselves quite different from their
> original brothers who were then regarded as strangers and enemies in the
> endless wars that ensued."
>
> According to Williams the Blacks had everything the world wanted: "gold,
> diamonds, ivory, copper, iron ore and themselves."
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