African Controversies In African History
Controversies in African History
In 1871, Charles Darwin suggested that Africa was the birth place of humankind. This statement ignited great controversy within Europe. Most of Europe withheld Protestant beliefs, believing that human races were separately created. They believed in Adam and Eve and completely disregarding the theory behind evolution. Because many Europeans did not want to accept that their ancestors came from Africa, the idea of the Africa cradle of human kind was easily a racial issue. According to “Human Evolution” in the book History of Africa written by
Kevin Shillington, “The material evidence for human evolution depends largely upon the recovery and examination of ancient bones, fossils, stone tools and other artifacts” (Shillington …show more content…
She is author of the book Not Out of Africa which seeks to disprove the
African influence on ancient Greece, and anti-Afrocentric point of view. According to Professor
Molefi Kete Asante who does believe that Greece was absolutely influenced by ancient Egypt,
“Afrocentricity seeks to discover African agency in every situation. Who are we? What did we do? Where did we travel? What is our role in geometry?” (103). He continues by saying
Afrocentricity is very different from Eurocentricity. He says the Afrocentrist does not advance
African particularly as universal while the Eurocentrist idea is advanced in the united states and other places as if the experiences of Europeans is universal (Asante 103). He stabs once more by saying, “This imposition is ethnocentric and often racist” (Asante 103). Lefkowitz’ book states that Greece did not receive contributions from Egypt. Lefkowitz has “offered the public a pablum history which ignores or distorts the substantial evidence of African influence on Greece in the ancient writings of Aetius, Strabo, Plato, Homer, Herodotus, Diogenes, Plutarch,
In 1871, Charles Darwin suggested that Africa was the birth place of humankind. This statement ignited great controversy within Europe. Most of Europe withheld Protestant beliefs, believing that human races were separately created. They believed in Adam and Eve and completely disregarding the theory behind evolution. Because many Europeans did not want to accept that their ancestors came from Africa, the idea of the Africa cradle of human kind was easily a racial issue. According to “Human Evolution” in the book History of Africa written by
Kevin Shillington, “The material evidence for human evolution depends largely upon the recovery and examination of ancient bones, fossils, stone tools and other artifacts” (Shillington …show more content…
She is author of the book Not Out of Africa which seeks to disprove the
African influence on ancient Greece, and anti-Afrocentric point of view. According to Professor
Molefi Kete Asante who does believe that Greece was absolutely influenced by ancient Egypt,
“Afrocentricity seeks to discover African agency in every situation. Who are we? What did we do? Where did we travel? What is our role in geometry?” (103). He continues by saying
Afrocentricity is very different from Eurocentricity. He says the Afrocentrist does not advance
African particularly as universal while the Eurocentrist idea is advanced in the united states and other places as if the experiences of Europeans is universal (Asante 103). He stabs once more by saying, “This imposition is ethnocentric and often racist” (Asante 103). Lefkowitz’ book states that Greece did not receive contributions from Egypt. Lefkowitz has “offered the public a pablum history which ignores or distorts the substantial evidence of African influence on Greece in the ancient writings of Aetius, Strabo, Plato, Homer, Herodotus, Diogenes, Plutarch,