“Pan” Africa Rising
“Pan” Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria’s Afri-Capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business By Rita Kiki Edozie
English | PDF | 2017 | 184 Pages | ISBN : 113759537X | 1.54 MB
It was G.W.F. Hegel who once claimed that Africa has no history. The rise of the Ibadan School of history helped to successfully contest this claim. The advanced civilization and history of Egypt also proved impossible for denialists of African history to ignore. Forced by the truth, denialists finally conceded only to turn around and claim that, while “White” Africans were capable, Black Africans were incapable of innovation, leadership, self-rule, and advanced civilization.
So, in the case of Egypt, it was “White” Egyptians or “White” Africans in Apartheid South Africa who were the capable Africans. Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop counted this revisionist doctrine in his path-breaking book, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974), where he demonstrated that the Pharaohs in Egypt were, in fact, Black.