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“AS LEARNING DECLINED, IGNORANCE AND FEAR BECAME ENTRENCHED. For the coming centuries farm and handicraft techniques stagnated at best, and more often declined from the levels of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The great courts declined as kingdoms and imperial states crumbled. And with the courts vanished the centers of higher learning. The universities of Jenne and Timbuktu had attained renown long before the fifteenth century; at the end of the sixteenth, ruin fell upon them; their scholars dispersed never to gather again after the collapse of Songhay. Between them and the new African universities of today there would come a wasted gap of three and a half centuries during which knowledge degenerated into ESOTERIC MYSTERIES, MAGIC REIGNED AND THERE FLOURISHED A RANK TRUST IN THE POTENCY OF RITUAL.”
Chinweizu
“The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite”
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