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BLACK HISTORY MONTH - Editorial
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When we ruled.
Once again, Black History Month is here, when black people in Britain celebrate the great and good in the long history of their mother continent and people in humanising the world. This year, New African has borrowed not only the title but extensive extracts from Robin Walker's wonderful new book, When We Ruled, in a bid to concentrate the minds of people of African descent everywhere--on the mother continent and in the Diaspora--on the golden age of Africa. This is to disprove the firmly entrenched notion that "Africa has no history" or that African history started when the Europeans arrived on our shores in the 15th century. What were our ancestors doing before then? Sleeping perhaps?
Yes, we may have fallen as a people, continent and empire. But once upon a time, we sure ruled the world! Africa and its peoples shall rise again--but only if we study our history properly, take absolute pride in it, and learn from the mistakes and move on. We come from ...See the full content of this document
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