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“Thus it was that the intellectual foundations for the articulation of the Kemetic national memory by kings and commoners were rooted in the idea of a perpetual re-birth through education. The first Weheme Mesu, four thousand years ago, began with the revision of the ancient instructional tradition especially the “Instruction of Ptahhotep.” Revision as a basic characteristic of the foundation signifies that restoration of the heritage must be the pillar for progress, that is making it better than it was before.”
-Jacob H. Carruthers, The Weheme Mesu and Pan-African Historiography
