African Presence in Early Europe - Dr Ivan Sertima - PART 1

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African Presence in Early Europe puts in perspective the history of the role of the African in world culture. The authors consider recent archaeological and anthropological studies that present new evidence of little known contributions by African people to the advancement of European civilization. Articles detail the physical and cultural presence of Africans in Europe. Topics covered include: the debt owed to the Moors for the Renaissance; Leo Africanus's Geographical History of Africa as a source for Shakespeare's vision of Othello; the Africoid Grimaldis in Europe; the black Moors; the origin of certain aspects of Greek philosophy; African popes; and black madonnas. The book is divided into six parts: The First Europeans; African Presence in the Ancient Mediterranean Isles and Mainland Greece; Africans in the European Religious Hierarchy; African Presence in Western Europe; African Presence in Northern Europe; African Presence in Eastern Europe.

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  • The statements regarding "Black Madonnas" are personal uninformed opinions. You need to dig deep, because you are at the surface now.

    What you are trying to describe is called "Theotokos" and belongs to Orthodox Christianity.

    See the Orthodox people in Ethiopia and Erithrea, they have the "Theotokos" painted in icons as she was, white, and also with golden-black in order to show to the faithful that divine persons are mysterious and nothing is with them as it is with us.

  • This is completely baseless and wishful speculation.

    We need thousands of proofs for civilization origins, not just one or two that are discussed extensively.

    You can search for PREHISTORIC DACIA ENGLISH for such proofs; the ancestors of DACIANS were the first civilization.

  • @spanptotacs do you want to discuss the lecture or...complain/whine?

    I'm not one for hindering freedom of speech, but unless you can offer something even remotely more intelligible I'm going to remove your comment.

    discourse is good, ignorance is not.

  • The "GREAT" CHIEKH ANTA DIOP has already destroyed the so-called best of his-storians at the 1974 UNESCO SYMPOSIUM ON THE PEOPLING OF ANCIENT EGYPT / KEMET, and there are numerous see; countless others from that School of Thought. "enough said" Truth is Truth All Day! The Truth Triumphs over Untruth always. by Mahatma Ghandi

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