Awake the African Spirit Seminar.
The Awake the African Sprit Society will be hosting a seminar at All Africa House, Middle
Campus on Thursday, 6 September at 18h00.
Theme : The Stolen Africa Civilization
Speaker: Mr. Olusegun Morakinyo
A light dinner will be served.
Profile of the speaker
Olusegun Morakinyo has a background in philosophy and equality studies. His research interests include Afrocentric philosophy, African history and African heritage studies.
Olusegun has taught African history and philosophy at colleges in Europe and Africa. He is presently the facilitator for the Robben Island Museum/UCT/UWC postgraduate programme in African Museum and Heritage Studies.
Abstract
African stolen civilization
The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective, nor un-uffled; [s]he his ignorant, cowardly and neurotic.
Cheikh Anta Diop 1974
The claim of stolen African civilization can be argued to rest on the question of the role of ancient Egypt in African history. The Afrocentric paradigm, championed by Cheikh
Anta Diop asserted that; ancient Egypt was an African civilization therefore the heritage of the Egyptian civilization rightly belongs to Africa and not Greece, as it is widely believed. It argued that instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, the
Black world [Africa] is the very initiator of western civilization. These assertions have been derided as being comfortable with the notion that the earth is flat and a myth masquerading as history by Lefkowitz and others, who warned of its risky political implications. In this paper from a critical Afrocentric perspective , I will attempt an exposition of African contributions to human civilization, showing how and why these contributions have been denied and the implications of this denial. I will conclude the paper by arguing the potentiality of the theses of stolen legacy and Black athena for the liberation of Africa from civilizational racism .
Contact
Imoh Colins Edozie
Energy Research Center
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
Tel: +27-21-6502832
Fax: +27-21-6502832
Email:colins.imoh@uct.ac.za