Dr. John Henrik Clarke: Forgotten History

Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 8:34 · Video file (25 MB)

Dr. John Henrik Clarke explores the historical contributions of Africa and its civilizations, challenging Eurocentric views and emphasizing the contributions of black

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So originally, Africans did not define themselves by continent and more by region. Africa as a continent began to be defined by foreign. In North Africa, the Roman province called Africa, the word became Africa. The history, both known and hidden, of the land where time began, has been a primary focus of Dr. Clark's scholarship throughout his long career. The concept of social order, the concept of an organized society, came out of now valid civilization. The food that was any other society that has been known to man functioning any other place in the world. The significance of now valid civilization is that it was that civilization that set a standard of performance untouched by the other civilizations of the world and people are reluctant to give an African credit for a creation that happened in Africa. They also forget that the now valid stretches, 4000 miles into the physical body of Africa, and that it was the world's first cultural highway. For centuries, Eurocentric scholars had rejected the idea that the mighty Egyptian Empire was in fact created and maintained by black Africans. The concept that Western civilization was the product of non-white intelligence, imagination, technology, and spirituality was unacceptable, both psychologically and politically. A brilliant, cynically scholar and scientist would shake and many say topple the very foundation of that conventional wisdom. His name was Shake and the Dio. His research was brought to the attention of the English-speaking world through the efforts of his longtime colleague and friend. I was running why his books are never been published in the United States. He said, no publishers interest in this book, so it took me seven years to interest the publisher in the books of Shake and the Dio. Dio's disciples referred to him as the Pharaoh of the upper Nile. To see the historical fact, we can all be impassioned. But that is now not how we resolve the complex. Don't worry, don't worry. Don't worry, don't just do it, don't just do it, don't just do it. The domination that we suffer from that I have suffered from myself. Now, to propose the nation, the results of the last, the preceding. So, Africa has exerced an imperialism, continue to become a capitalist. But for four thousand years, black Africa had an imperialism. The central and the conquist, and the system of the domination of the white. On a Western Asia was under the domination of blacks. We don't repeat it, it's a mess, it's a problem that the situation could have been a problem. And at that time, no one would ever have dreamt that the situation could be reversed. It's a process that the history, the history, the modern society, the history of the country, and the relativism. This is why the study of history gives us the serenity required to appreciate the fact that they are. 97 to four, he would challenge the major scholars of the world on the concept of Egypt not being anything other than an African state. And the conference on the people of Egypt leading scholars of the world met and debated. Most of them wanted to put Egypt origin outside of Africa. She can't have deal in his prologue, fearful, or banger, place Egypt within the context of Africa's totality. She can't have deal with more than his story, his scientists, his phetalologist. And he had proven that if he could get the pigment from some of the mummies, he could prove the African origins. All the rest of the companies came just to disagree and when it was all over, they had to admit these two men came prepared to prove their case. At that point, they began to close the door to the researcher, Schick and Adio. From the first dynasty to the invasion of Narbale, that was the first golden age. And from the third dynasty, came the great multi-genius in hotel, the real father of medicine, who lived 1800 years before the Greek was called the father of medicine. When we read the biography of the Greek, he says, I am a child of M. Hotea. And from the 18th dynasty, came the world's great social reform on, maybe one of the world's first ditches of nothing. He thought so much of life he would not crush a flower. He outlawed warfare. Spirituality was a part of the total life of the people. Before the coming of the Europeans, the African was very religious. The step pyramid was originally built for the temple at the top, for you can go up and pray. But this relates not just to the glorification of a Pharaoh, but the spiritual outpouring of a people. This is what made the civilization of the Niles so great. At the same time that Egypt was in its 24th dynasty, Europe was just emerging from its pre-literate paths. The first show of European intelligence was the book called the Odyssey in the Ilian. That's about 85 BC. Why is Egypt 85 BC? Egypt is old and tired and has gone through 24th dynasty. It is only the eve of its last great dynasty that would come from the Pharaohs in the south. And the European are just with the book of folklore. Just south of Egypt lies another highly evolved black society, the Newbians. Their civilization thrived for some 3,000 years. I call the 25th dynasty the one dynasty from the south that moved up north. And to tell that cousins, the Egyptians, how to rule a nation one more time. In the great show of history, this was Africa's last walk in the Sun. It was a great mighty walk that woke at last 10,000 years. Now it's coming to an end. Europe is just being born. The very word Europe is not even being used.
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