Carried on from the first entry.
Introduction recap:
The taking up of African
historiography by Europeans has long been mired with disinformation, as
scholars of European descent sought to accommodate imperialist designs
of their governments around the African continent. This matter had been
particularly brushed on briefly in an earlier entry discussing the
significance of additional Timbuktu chronicles
that were brought to light in recent times and the corresponding rush
to preserve those relics, whereby we come across the systematic
construction of the "Ghana Conquest Theory", at a time when European
polities had their eye set on colonizing African territories and fuel
their growth with African resources. The historiography of Ancient
Ghana, and Western Sudan (otherwise now recognized as "West Africa") in
general, was but just one element of this disinformation campaign; the
policy had extended to other elements of African historiography, Ancient
Egypt being the most popular and enduring example of this. Complexes
from Kush, Abyssinia or Aksum to the Great Zimbabwe had all become
casualties of European disinformation.
Timeline indexing, as well as covering topics around mtDNA and Y-DNA segments, microsatellite sequences and other DNA loci, not sparing Linguistics.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
How are the Media and Schools catching up with Scientific Progress?
Introduction:
The taking up of African historiography by Europeans has long been mired with disinformation, as scholars of European descent sought to accommodate imperialist designs of their governments around the African continent. This matter had been particularly brushed on briefly in an earlier entry discussing the significance of additional Timbuktu chronicles that were brought to light in recent times and the corresponding rush to preserve those relics, whereby we come across the systematic construction of the "Ghana Conquest Theory", at a time when European polities had their eye set on colonizing African territories and fuel their growth with African resources. The historiography of Ancient Ghana, and Western Sudan (otherwise now recognized as "West Africa") in general, was but just one element of this disinformation campaign; the policy had extended to other elements of African historiography, Ancient Egypt being the most popular and enduring example of this. Complexes from Kush, Abyssinia or Aksum to the Great Zimbabwe had all become casualties of European disinformation.
The taking up of African historiography by Europeans has long been mired with disinformation, as scholars of European descent sought to accommodate imperialist designs of their governments around the African continent. This matter had been particularly brushed on briefly in an earlier entry discussing the significance of additional Timbuktu chronicles that were brought to light in recent times and the corresponding rush to preserve those relics, whereby we come across the systematic construction of the "Ghana Conquest Theory", at a time when European polities had their eye set on colonizing African territories and fuel their growth with African resources. The historiography of Ancient Ghana, and Western Sudan (otherwise now recognized as "West Africa") in general, was but just one element of this disinformation campaign; the policy had extended to other elements of African historiography, Ancient Egypt being the most popular and enduring example of this. Complexes from Kush, Abyssinia or Aksum to the Great Zimbabwe had all become casualties of European disinformation.