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"To tell the story of Africa as a story of empires is, in part, to repeat colonial hierarchies inside our own history. ... the empires were late. They were the visible flowering of a deeper, older intellectual tradition that had already done the hard work of becoming human.." - Yaw Kissi #BlackSky

Empire Was the Fruit, Knowledge Was the Root: Why African Civilizational History Does Not Begin with the Pharaohs - Universal Write PublicationsAfrican civilization did not begin with crowns, pyramids, or empires. Long before Kemet, Mali, or Songhai, African societies had already mastered agriculture, metallurgy, astronomy, medicine, and symb...uwpbooks.com