Debunking the Subterfuge: Africa was never will never be a Poor Continent

Abstract

This work is a search for afro-optimism in recognition of the fact that the first human civilization occurred on the continent of Africa. It should be digested as an attempt to animate and interrogate Eurocentric accounts of Africa. The five horsemen of the apocalypse are the triangular slavery, colonialism, imperialism, flag-independence and debt peonage. Recently democratization has been added to ideological repertoire. This hiatus is provoking the extant narratives about Africanist scholars like Basil Davidson, Ali Mazuri, Maulana Karenga, Myers Mandami, Wamba-dia-Wamba, Mujuhid Nyahuma, Theophile Obenga, Cheikh Anta Diop and Zeleza. A radical departure from Eurocentric history of African appeared to challenge world history according to Eurocentric scholars. This work shows that Africa is not barren when evaluating the role of Africa in the advancement of human civilization. It uses both ancient Egypt and Ethiopia to show the great advancement that Africa had made to human civilization. The author shows that Egypt and Ethiopia, due to material conditions and geography, gave the world opportunity for the first human civilization. It argues that the Hellenic world owes a great deal to Egyptian civilization. The shows that negroid ancestors of Black Africa invented mathematics, astronomy, calendar, the sciences, arts, religion, agriculture, social organization, medicine, writing, technology and architecture. The work concludes that Africa was never, and is not and will never be a poor continent in human and material resources.