.Knowledge from Africa is not so ancient because it was not that long ago. Also, it still exists in many places and is being taught and sought.
History tells us “to the victor belongs the spoils.” The greatest spoil taken from African nations that were conquered was their knowledge.
1. Libraries and sacred books were stolen. (1)
2. From museums alone, we know what was also taken in large numbers: papyri, tablets and stones (Rosetta Stone, Shabaka Stone, etc.)
3. “Concerning the fact that Egypt was the greatest education centre of the ancient world which was
also visited by the Greeks, reference must again be made to Plato in the Timaeus who tells us
that Greek aspirants to wisdom visited Egypt for initiation, and that the priests of Sais used to
refer to them as children in the Mysteries.” (2)
4. “There were mystery schools, or what we would commonly call lodges in Greece and other lands,
outside of Egypt, whose work was carried on according to the Osiriaca, the Grand Lodge of
Egypt. Such schools have frequently been referred to as private or philosophic mysteries, and
their founders were Initiates of the Egyptian Mysteries; the Ionian temple at Didyma; the lodge
of Euclid at Megara; the lodge of Pythagoras at Crotona; and the Orphic temple at Delphi, with
the schools of Plato and Aristotle. Consequently we make a mistake when we suppose that the
so-called Greek philosophers formulated new doctrines of their own; for their philosophy had
been handed down by the great Egyptian Hierophants through the Mysteries. In addition to the control of the mysteries, the Grand Lodge permitted an exchange of visits between the various lodges, in order to ensure the progress of the brethren in the secret science.” (3)
5. “The schools of philosophy, Chaldean, Greek and Persian, were part of the Ancient Mystery
System of Egypt. They were conducted in secrecy according to the demands of the Osiriaca,
whose teachings became common to all the schools.” (4)
6. "In the 8th century A.D. The Moors, i.e., natives of Mauritania in North Africa, invaded Spain and took with them, the Egyptian culture which they had preserved. Knowledge in the ancient days was centralized i.e., it belonged to a common parent and system, i.e., the Wisdom Teaching or Mysteries of Egypt, which the Greeks used to call Sophia.As such, the people of North Africa were the neighbors of the Egyptians, and became the custodians of Egyptian culture, which they spread through considerable portions of Africa, Asia Minor and Europe. During their occupation of Spain, the Moors displayed with considerable credit, the grandeur of African culture and civilization. The schools and libraries which they established became famous throughout the Mediaeval world; Science and learning were cultivated and taught; the schools of Cordova, Toledo, Seville and Saragossa attained such celebrity, that they, like their parent Egypt, attracted students from all parts of the Western world; and from them arose the most famous African professors that the world has ever known, in medicine, surgery, astronomy and mathematics. But these people from North Africa did more than merely distinguish themselves in Spain. They were really the recognized custodians of African culture, to whom the world looked for enlightenment. Consequently, through the medium of the ancient Arabic language, philosophy and the various branches of science were disseminated: (a) all the so-called works of Aristotle in metaphysics, moral philosophy and natural science (b) translations by Leonardo Pisano in Arabic mathematical science (c) translation by Gideo a Monk of Arezzo in musical notation. In addition, the Moors kept up constant contact with mother Egypt: for they had established Caliphates not only at Baghdad and Cordova, but also at Cairo in Egypt.” (5)
7. “In his magnum opus A Lost Tradition: African Philosophy in World History (1975), Thoephile Obenga documents the confessions of 'famous' revered Greeks (the world's first Europeans) in their own Greek Hellenic language that they all received their education at the Temple of Waset in ancient Kemet (Egypt) and that their teachers were the master-thinkers or High priests in the Nile Valley. The Temple of Waset is the world's first university and was built during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the XVIII Dynasty, 1405-1370 B.C.” (6)
8. “The Greek, St. Clement of Alexandria , stated that if you were to write a book of 1,000 pages, you could not put down the names of all the Greeks who went to the Nile Valley in Kemet/Egypt, Africa, to be educated and even those who did not go claim they went because it was prestigious.” (7)
In the midst of reclaiming memory, the past, Ancestors and more, there are still too many Africans who do not want to believe in their inherent and inherited greatness. This is so even though African greatness is on display everywhere under someone else's claim and name.
Many groups of people received their best education from African sources. Right now Europeans and others are still searching for what we already have within us – African knowledge. Despite this truth, we still go to Europeans to teach us what they don't know but we do. Since they are pretending to know, we end up in worse shape than when we started because we put faith in information that has little liberating power unless it is paired with knowledge of self. African knowledge through a European sieve retains little substance. This type of education only works in their system unless we transform it into an African conceptual framework.
(1) James, George G. M., "Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy," The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2009) eBook, p. 36 (originally published in New York by Philosophical Library in 1954).
(2) Ibid., p. 34br>
(3) Ibid., p. 26br>
(4) Ibid., p. 15br>
(5) Ibid., p. 32br>
(6) Nantambu, Dr. Kwame, "Original Glory not out of Greece," October 20, 2004, Accessed 04/10/15, http://www.trinicenter.com/kwame/2004/2010.htm
(7) Ibid.br>
