September 14, 2004 07:37PM
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Doug M Wrote:
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> So what you have is a well intentioned idea gone
> bad, only made worse by acedemic institutions that
> promote a humanities based (literary works made up
> of snippets of facts from somewhere else). This
> is the opposite of a wholistic based approach to
> all things African, where every branch of science
> is mastered so as to benefit Africans and everyone
> else. That is the best way to truly promote
> understanding into Africa and its history. And if
> there is an issue about the AE, you would have
> first hand evidence and facts, supported by solid
> research to support your arguments.
What makes me sad about Afrocentrism is that so much time and effort is spent on it, when there is a lot of good work to be done to rescue, investigate and reevaluate-- not Egyptian stuff-- but what has been done in the rest of Africa. A group of colleagues and I have been working on developing a curriculum to teach science in grade school using examples from Mesoamerica. This is the proper level for this information given the technological levels of the societies involved. Unfortunately, Afrocentrics are more interested in claiming that Egyptians knew about quantum mechanics than in doing the kind of thing I've been doing.
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> On the other hand, even with the inherent
> problems, you must remember that there is a lot of
> negative racial history in Africa as well as
> atrocities commited against Africans because they
> were African. So, while it is easy to dismiss
> sloppy research and academic credentials, it is
> not easy to dismiss the wrongs humanity has
> visited upon Africa.
Absolutely! The track record of the First World has been horrendous throughout history. We are still fundamentally unconcerned about genocides such as Darfur, and even in areas such as archaeology funding is only relatively available for excavations in Egypt and/or searches for hominid ancestors.
Bernard
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