African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago · Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr: A Tribute to Dr. Carter G. Woodson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if9rF-9bXXw&feature=youtu.be
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medase, this was great. I’ll share with my students, we just got done doing a lesson on the origins of Black History Month and Carter G Woodson this past Tuesday.
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year agoa year ago (edited)
Various quotes discussing the Igbo and resistance during the era of enslavement.
“During the first wave of the incursion, the Aro deployed the Abam to kidnap Ebiri people, forcing them to flee from their original homeland in Oroni to a new location presently called Eke-Igbere. The flight of the Emir might have helped them become more vigilant…
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago · “By the mid-seventeenth century, Africans and their descendants in the Caribbean began to outnumber whites very substantially. This demographic imbalance escalated during the eighteenth century. Because of their reputation as rebels, Greater Senegambians became less welcome. Although Greater Senegambians were feared in Spanish colonies, they…
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How come they didn’t teach this part of African history when I was in school?
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year ago · “In 1483 the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão was the first European to enter the Congo River and encounter the Kingdom of Kongo. After landing in the Congo estuary near a city called Mbanza Sonyo, Diogo Cão sent messengers and gifts to the king, Nzinga Nkuwu, who lived in the capital, Mbanza Kongo. After several weeks as his messengers were…
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“The Portuguese explorer, Diego Cao, captured 4 Kongo nobles and sailed for Portugal.”
As early as 1483, Europeans were capturing Afrikans as slaves.
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“The Portuguese demanded Afrikan slaves in exchange for anything King Alfonso I demanded from Portugal.”
The Europeans were the initiators, the manufacturers, the drivers, the force behind The Atlantic Slave Trade.
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“Despite the many restrictions that King Alfonso I put on the slave trade in the kingdom of Kongo, thousands, if not millions, of Afrikan slaves were continuing to be illegally captured and exported annually into the New World to work the plantations.”
Afrikans on the Continent resisted and fought to stop the illegal capture of enslaved…
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African Deep Thought: Following the ways of our ancestors a year agoa year ago (edited)
“The history of the Kingdom of Kongo is very important because it offers a remarkable and valuable insight into the early encounter and relationship between Europe and Africa. Founded by Lukeni Lua Nimi in the 14th century, the Kongo kingdom became one of the largest and most powerful states in Central Africa during the 15th and 16th centuries.…
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