African Genius and State Building

Let's get to work on what we have to do tonight, because we've got more before us than we've got time before us. What I'm talking about tonight is not only the missing pages of African history, but some of the missing pages of the history of the world. after the decline of the missing pages of the history of the world. After the decline of the Roman Empire, forced by the rise of Islam and the pushing of the Europeans out of North Africa and the Mediterranean, more than a thousand years of history got neglected from the history of the world when African genius and state building began to decline in the Nile Valley, African genius and state building was reborn in the Niger River. And another great river civilization was born. This great river civilization was born. This great river civilization has been left out of history. Entire history books, even history of Africa has been written with this great river civilization left out left out because people are stupid enough to call this black Africa never use the word black Africa not because Africans are not black, black is an honorable word, there's nothing basically wrong with it, but because it presupposes that there is a legitimate white Africa. There is no legitimate white Africa. And so, somebody said, black Africa, ask them, what other kind of Africa legitimately is there? You never say white Europe, and you never say wet rain. What other kind of rain is there other than wet rain? That's redundant. It's just like saying, blue sky, blue sky. All right. My main point here is that when you look at the genius of Africa, that genius, once it declines in one place, is reborn in another place. And when you look at the continents, the continents of the world, and look at the people in the world, Nearly all civilizations are born near great rivers. When you look at Africa, when you look at the civilizations of Africa, first the civilization of the Nile River, then the Niger River, then the Volta River. Then the Congo River. Then again on the east is the Limpopo and the Zimbabwe River. You go to China, the Zimbabwe, China is the Yantizi River. Go to Europe, it is the Danube River. And the Volizi River. Go to Europe, it is the Danube River. In the Volta River. Go to England, it is the Thames River. Every time you go to a continent and look at and look for the beginning of a civilization in the beginning of a great city and a commerce. You find the river and the city on the river. Now we are examining a great civilization in Africa that had its birth after Egypt. To some extent, it is as old as Egypt, but it came to the attention of the world after Egypt. And to some extent, it benefited from the aftermath of Egypt. This is Nile Valley civilization that had its birth and flourished after Egypt. It is also a civilization whose people benefited from a river civilization that flourished in the green Sahara before it became a desert. You do not say Sahara desert because the word Sahara means desert. Years ago, before the area dried up, cities existed in the area, and there were rivers in the area, water in the area, and it could support large population who were cattle and life. All of this has been proven, especially in a book by a Frenchman, André Loeb, in search for the Tisilla frescoes. Frescoes mean pictures. And he was searching for the cave drawings in the Sahara that indicated the kind of life that existed in the area before it dried up and became a desert. He also found something that Herodotus indicated in his writing, that a people lived in that area of Africa called the Garamantes. Herodotus indicated that the Garamantes went to war using a three-wheeled chariot. Herodotus was wrong. Europeans think that everything that moves, moves for war because Europeans are war conscious. What he thought was a war chariot was nothing but a utility wagon that Africans used to bring crops from the field. All of this in spite of the fact that there was a French historian, Raymond Monet, who went around the world, calling himself world's greatest authority on Africa, who will forever sing, until the 16thth century the African never knew the wheel. And at a meeting in Canada when the African young turk stopped the meeting of the African Studies Association in the middle of his speech told him the meeting is illegitimate you are illegitimate get the hell out of here he said young man do you know who I am I am the great authority Raymond Mounet he said you are illegitimate you are our faith get hell out of here. He'd never been the same since, almost had a stroke. Someone later told him, and I was the one that told him this, there were African chariot drivers in Rome, there were African gladiators, some Africans were in the arena being killed as Christians. And some Africans were driving chariots, killing Christians. And I'm sure their chariots had wheels. That was before the 16th century. I guess he's retired or dead, but it doesn't matter a great deal, but the African had known the wheel for quite a while. In spite of Raymond Mooney's proclamation that until the 16th century he didn't know the wheel. And he had a research institute in Senegal, up until about five or six years ago, when they had the common sense to fire him. Alright, now, my main point, I'm trying to show that before Ghana...