Africa In Antiquity
Specialized Study, Research and historical analysis
Africa in Antiquity: A Comprehensive Study
This specialized study delves into the rich history and cultural heritage of Africa. Through rigorous research and historical analysis, we acquire knowledge and skills by learning or gaining experience. Research involves systematic investigation to establish facts, principles, or generalized knowledge. Both learning and research are forms of inquiry, and research demands a structured method based on facts, analysis, and objectivity. Dedicated academics and individuals with proven knowledge and research abilities undertake this rigorous process.
“According to the comprehensive evidence we now possess, the origins of humanity can be traced back to Africa.”
"The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was an African, and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South". ⎯Sir E.A. Wallis Budge.
The ancient Egyptian civilization, the oldest known to humanity, endured for ten millennia. At its zenith, it experienced a decline before the emergence of Europe, necessitating recognition of the remarkable individuals in Africa long before the birth of Christ. These influential figures shaped early Europe and the known world of their era. This book delves into the reasons behind Africa’s marginalization from historical accounts and presents a lesser-known aspect of history currently under scholarly investigation: the enduring impact of African personalities on Asia, particularly the Indian Ocean slave trade (also known as the East African slave trade), dating back to 2500 BCE.
"The significance of African history is shown, through not overtly, in the very effort to deny anything worthy of the name of history to Africa and the African peoples. This widespread, and well nigh successful endeavor, maintained through some five centirues, to erase African history from the general record, is a fact which of itself should be quite conclusive to thinking and open minds. For it is logical and apparent that no such undertaking would ever have been carried on, and such length,"...but [t]he prime significance of African history becomes still more manifest when it is realized that this deliberate denial of African history arose out of European expansion and invansion of Africa which began in the middle of the fifteenth century." ⎯ Richard B. Moore.
p>In reference to the aforementioned resources and those that follow, our objective is to provide evidence to rectify the corrupt interpretation and misrepresentation of history by Western sources, which are often employed to promote a false narrative (Europe-centric) of white racial superiority, particularly in the context of ancient Africa and Asia. To foster global unity and establish a peaceful world, it is paramount to uncover and acknowledge the objective history of humanity, encompassing the diverse contributions that have propelled civilization forward. All are found in the Prallagon Library. Lets begin with the following:
publications
Listed in Alphabetical order by the Author's last name
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Ariel, A.J., A History of the Sudan: From the Earliest Times to 1821, Hassell Street Press (2021), 304 pages.
Armstrong, H.C., Lord of Arabia: Ibn Saud, Kegan Paul Arabia Library. 1998, 306 pp.
Baldwin, John D. ( Baldwin, John D. (John Denison), 1809-1883), Pre-historic nations; or, Inquiries concerning some of the great peoples and civilizatins of antiquity, and their probable relation to a still older civilization of the Ethiopians or Cushites of Arabia. Pub. 1874 [c1869], New York, Harper & brothers. Collection cdl; americana. Contributor: University of California Libraries. Item Size 688.4M.
Note: In this work, on page 25, is Baldwin’s rewrite of African History. He attempts to rewrite African history by opposing prior stated evidence and assessments made by competent scholars and historians, the Greeks and Romans, and others of antiquity, who identified and defined Ethiopians as being of the Black race. Baldwin creates a fictitious “Brown” race as a barrier, to refute factual assessments that identify Ethiopians as a Black people, and without justification or evidence attempts to separate Black people from their rightful heritage by disregarding and reinterpreting evidence concerning their known contributions to civilisation throughout African antiquity and beyond.
Baikie, James The Life of the Ancient East. Chautauqua Press (1925), Edition: Chautauqua Home Reading Series.
Baring-Gould, Sabine, Lives of the Saints. (1914).
Batuta, Abu Abd, Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354, H.A.R. Gibb (Translator). Martino Fine Books (2023), 422 pages.
Batuta, Abu Abd, "The Travels of Ibn Batuta", (In Egypt, Syria, Persia, Zanzibar, Tartary, Hindustan, Ceylon, China, Spain, and Africa; between 1325 and 1353), tr. from the Arabic abridged manuscript copies preserved in the Public Library at Cambridge, London: 1829.
Beardsley, Grace, The Negro in Greek and Roman Civilisation. London, 1929.
Boahen, Abu, A., Topics in West African History, 2nd Ed., (1967).
Breasted, James Henry, Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, Collected, Vol. II. 1865-1935.
Breasted, James Henry, Ancient Times a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History and the Career of Early Man, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2014), 514 pages.
Breasted, James Henry, Egypt Through The Stereoscope: A Journey Through The Land Of The Pharaohs, Vol. I. Underwood & Underwood (Creator). Legare Street Press (2023), 376 pages.
Breasted, James Henry, The dawn of conscience (The Scribner library), Charles Scribner's Sons (1968), 431 pages.
Brooks, Lester, Great Civilisations of Ancient Africa.. Four Winds Press (1971), Edition: 1st. Edition
Budge, E.A.W., Ethiopian Book of Life, Frontline Distribution Int'L Inc. (2004), Edition: Reissue, 307 pages.
Clark, Desmond, J., The Prehistory of Africa, Frontline Distribution Int'L Inc. (2004), Edition: Reissue, 307 pages.
David, Anthony E., A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, B. A. Seaby Ltd. (1992), Ed.: Reprint, 179 pages.
Davison, Basil, A History of East and Central Africa, p. 14. Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1969.
Davison, Basil, The African Genius, (1969), Edition: New Ed, 384 pages.
Davison, Basil, The Lost Cities of Africa, p. 218, Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
Doresse, Jean, Ethiopia, trans. by Elsa Court, pp. 32, 64, 84. New York, Frederick Unger Pub. Co., 1959.
El Masudi, (Arab historian, d. A.D. 956). Says the Abyssinian invaders were "Negroes". An Account of the Establishment of the Fatemite Dynasty in Africa: Being the Annals of That Province from the Year 290 of the Heg'ra to the Year 300. Ascribed to El Mas'ûdi. , Adamant Media Corporation (2002), 146 pages. (Note: Collaborated by Barbier de Meynard, 1861. In addition, "In 1763 the ruler of Yemen was a Negro, according to Niebuhr, who saw him. His mother was a Negro slave who seized the throne on his behalf and had him proclaimed sultan with the title of El Mahdi. His brothers, of whom he had twenty, Niebuhr says, "were as black as ebony, flat-nosed, and thick-lipped." (Travels in Arabia, p. 103. London, 1811).
Huggins, Willis N., Introduction to African Civilisations, Black Classic Books (2013), 276 pages.
Jackson, John, G, Introduction to African Civilisations, (2002). Paperback. Citadel Press Inc., U.S.
Leakey, L.S.B., The Progress and Evolution of Man in Africa, Oxford. (1961), 51 pages.
Massey, Gerald, Ancient Egypt The Light of the World: Vol. 1 and 2, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform (2011), 598 pages.
Monte, Pierre, Lives of the Pharaohs, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform (2011), 598 pages.
Muhammad, Wesley, Black Arabia & the African Origin of Islam, A-Team Publishing, Incorporated (2009), Edition: 2nd ed., 268 pages.
Osei, G.K., The Forgotten Great Africans 3000 to 1959 A.D., London, 1965.
Palmer, R.R., A History of the Modern World, other authors: Joel Colton and Lloyd Kramer. McGraw-Hill College (2007), Edition: 10th, 1259 pages.
Perry, Rufus Lewis, The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Hamd, Bookcrop (2023), Edition: 1, 147 pages.
Rashidi, Runoko, African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East, Books of Africa Ltd (2012), 399 pages.
Rihani, A. Maker of Modern Arabia, Publisher : Kessinger Publishing (March 1, 2007), 468 pages. ISBN-10: 1432569457, ISBN-13 : 978-1432569457.
Rogers, J.A., Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race. (2018), 252 pages.
Sirdar Ikbal, The Controlling Minds of Asia, Hesperides Press (2006), 340 pages.
Paperback, ISBN 1406736074. Other Authors: Shah, The Sirdar Ikbal Ali.
Snowden, Jr., Frank, M., Blacks in Antiquity, p. 218, Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
Solanke, Ladipo, United West Africa (or Africa) at the Bar of the Family of Nations, Pub. African Publication Society, 1969. Original: University of California; digitized 15 May 2009, 68 pages.
Wells, Ellen, Hatshepsut, Pub. Doubleday (1969). Pg. count: 287. Original: Univ. of Minnesota. Digitized: March 4, 2010.
Williams, Chancellor, The Destruction of Black Civilisation. Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. What the Blacks themselves achieved independently of either Europe or Asia. Third World Press, Chicago, IL, 1987
Wright, David, The Use of Race and Racial Perceptions Among Asians and Blacks: The Case of the Japanese and African Americans, Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies 30 (1998), Pgs.135-152 (PDF). The Hitotsubashi Academy.
Africa In Antiquity
SPECIALIZED STUDY, RESEARCH AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Prallagon Library
Our mission is to sustain an unparalleled service that enables the learning, teaching, and research objectives of the Prallagon Consulting Group, its partners, and external sources. In this case, we provide access to information on ancient Africa, particularly Egypt, fostering intellectual growth and clarification of the historical evidence that the continent contributed to the advancement of civilization since its earliest origins.
