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The King Tut Blog is refocusing and reshaping itself. It will now be known as the Afrikan Classical History Blog. King Tut will still be addressed, but more emphasis on other topics will be discussed. This is not a great leap from the original position of the blog.
The Nile River Valley’s ancient past is a product of Afrikan
development and migrations into that area. The Nile has been fed for
thousands of years from inner Afrika, the Great Lakes region of
Central-East (especially DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania) and the
Highlands of Ethiopia. The first Humans in the world came from this
part of Afrika. The Afrikan people who populated the greater Nile
Valley came from these regions and West from the Sahara. They brought
civilization with them into the Nile, and they also brought the
mathematics that they later developed even further after the founding
of dynastic Tawi (Ancient Egypt or the Two-Lands). The Nile Valley
would be the parent cultural cradle of Afrika. I refer the reader to
Diop’s essay “Peopling of Africa from the Nile Valley” in The African
Origin of Civilization. In and around this region was the parent
location of Afrikans, humanity, civilization, and mathematics. My first
introduction to Afrikan mathematics came by way of the great Cheikh
Anta Diop in Civilization or Barbarism. Further, I was profoundly
impressed with the subject of Afrikan mathematics from the works of
Beatrice Lumpkin and convinced that math, like all the subjects of
learning, had been told through a false European view of the world that
was not accurate and intentionally falsified to bolster European
supremacy.
It is through this European supremacist view of education that children
are incorrectly taught math and all of the subject areas. This, I
maintain, is one of the key reasons why children of Afrikan descent
perform poorly in school. Children are taught about great Europeans who
created math, the “Father of Geometry” as Euclid is known, or the
“Father of Algebra” as Diophantus is known, or the “Father of
Numerology” as Pythagoras is known. The fact is that geometry, algebra,
and numerology all existed before the Greeks had the most vague
understanding of mathematics. As much and more will be explained in the
following pages. Children, and adults in universities, are taught or
indirectly left with the impression that Greeks fathered, not only
math, but science, philosophy, and all areas of knowledge. The Greeks
were latecomers in the history of mathematics; indeed the Greeks were
latecomers in the history of world civilization that sprang up in the
Nile Valley and later in the Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and China before
entering Europe. From the current educational system, we are left to
believe that civilization started with the Greeks and spread to Afrika
very late with the era of slavery. This is altogether false. As all
cultures and peoples have, the Greeks did make some contributions to
mathematics, but the Greek contributions to mathematics was built from
an Afrikan foundation before and during the Library of Alexandria
period in Egypt where many of the great “Greek” mathematicians went and
studied.
It is significant to note that the ancient scholars associated with the
Library of Alexandria are all assumed to be Greek merely, it seems,
because they made a contribution to some filed of knowledge and wrote
in Greek. The fact is that the identity of many of the philosophers is
not clear in the least. Instead of doing guesswork about racial
identity, I want to focus on Afrikan mathematics. In fact, before the
building of this library, Greeks were already studying Afrikan math and
other subjects in this Afrikan nation.
The Greeks never claimed to
be “Fathers” of math, science, history, or philosophy. Those fatherhood
titles were given in later times. However, the Greeks didn’t always
give credit to the Afrikans of the Nile who taught them mathematical
and knowledge otherwise. Consider the following quote from Basil
Davidson in Egypt Revisited:
http://afrikan-history.blogspot.com/2009/08/afrikan-kemetic-mathematics-by-mukasa.html
development and migrations into that area. The Nile has been fed for
thousands of years from inner Afrika, the Great Lakes region of
Central-East (especially DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania) and the
Highlands of Ethiopia. The first Humans in the world came from this
part of Afrika. The Afrikan people who populated the greater Nile
Valley came from these regions and West from the Sahara. They brought
civilization with them into the Nile, and they also brought the
mathematics that they later developed even further after the founding
of dynastic Tawi (Ancient Egypt or the Two-Lands). The Nile Valley
would be the parent cultural cradle of Afrika. I refer the reader to
Diop’s essay “Peopling of Africa from the Nile Valley” in The African
Origin of Civilization. In and around this region was the parent
location of Afrikans, humanity, civilization, and mathematics. My first
introduction to Afrikan mathematics came by way of the great Cheikh
Anta Diop in Civilization or Barbarism. Further, I was profoundly
impressed with the subject of Afrikan mathematics from the works of
Beatrice Lumpkin and convinced that math, like all the subjects of
learning, had been told through a false European view of the world that
was not accurate and intentionally falsified to bolster European
supremacy.
It is through this European supremacist view of education that children
are incorrectly taught math and all of the subject areas. This, I
maintain, is one of the key reasons why children of Afrikan descent
perform poorly in school. Children are taught about great Europeans who
created math, the “Father of Geometry” as Euclid is known, or the
“Father of Algebra” as Diophantus is known, or the “Father of
Numerology” as Pythagoras is known. The fact is that geometry, algebra,
and numerology all existed before the Greeks had the most vague
understanding of mathematics. As much and more will be explained in the
following pages. Children, and adults in universities, are taught or
indirectly left with the impression that Greeks fathered, not only
math, but science, philosophy, and all areas of knowledge. The Greeks
were latecomers in the history of mathematics; indeed the Greeks were
latecomers in the history of world civilization that sprang up in the
Nile Valley and later in the Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and China before
entering Europe. From the current educational system, we are left to
believe that civilization started with the Greeks and spread to Afrika
very late with the era of slavery. This is altogether false. As all
cultures and peoples have, the Greeks did make some contributions to
mathematics, but the Greek contributions to mathematics was built from
an Afrikan foundation before and during the Library of Alexandria
period in Egypt where many of the great “Greek” mathematicians went and
studied.
It is significant to note that the ancient scholars associated with the
Library of Alexandria are all assumed to be Greek merely, it seems,
because they made a contribution to some filed of knowledge and wrote
in Greek. The fact is that the identity of many of the philosophers is
not clear in the least. Instead of doing guesswork about racial
identity, I want to focus on Afrikan mathematics. In fact, before the
building of this library, Greeks were already studying Afrikan math and
other subjects in this Afrikan nation.
The Greeks never claimed to
be “Fathers” of math, science, history, or philosophy. Those fatherhood
titles were given in later times. However, the Greeks didn’t always
give credit to the Afrikans of the Nile who taught them mathematical
and knowledge otherwise. Consider the following quote from Basil
Davidson in Egypt Revisited:
http://afrikan-history.blogspot.com/2009/08/afrikan-kemetic-mathematics-by-mukasa.html
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