Thread by @ancientkemite

The fact that Afraka has experienced at least 1,000 years of intense slave raids by Arabs, Europeans, and their agents, is a well known fact to afrocentrics. This is known as the Maafa.

What is sad is when we pretend that this did not have an impact on African traditional culture. These raids depleted the population of boys between 10-16 years old (the primary focus of slave raids).

As a result, there became a great shortage of men and so women had to share husbands. Over the centuries such polygamy became widespread in Afraka.

However, over the past 130 years the male-female ratio has re-established itself and so the practice of polygamy is no longer needed.

Because the slave-raiding lasted for at least 1,000 years, many traditionalists have incorporated polygamy as a part of African culture and refuse to abandon it. This is a grave mistake.

Polygamy is not fair to women, period.

It is a pure injustice that serves self-centered men who wish to exploit the Afrakan woman not elevate her. Only weak women will accept the deal because they have a low self-esteem. Polygamy is not Afrakan.

The only time it was permitted in antiquity is if a brother was killed and then his brother could have the right to wife his widow because he would be a better father than a man not related to the children. This was the only exception.

There is not one pharaoh in all the history of Kemet who presented himself with multiple wives. We see Ahmose with his Queen, Ahmose-Nefertari, at all times. He showed no one else.

The same is said for Amenhotep III and his Queen Tiye, for Akhenaton and his Queen Nefertiti, for Rameses II and his Queen Nefertari. These were the most powerful men on the planet and never insulted the Black woman by having her in a polygamous marriage.

It is true that some of the pharaohs had concubines, but these were not wives they were married to but political unions with the daughters of powerful Kemetic clans or princesses from foreign lands given to the pharaoh to establish political alliances.

We never see these women placed on the reliefs or in sculptures with the pharaoh; they were not his wives.

We must end the myth of polygamy as Afrakan, even if it has existed for 1,000 years of slave raiding.

What man loves his daughter if he gives her to a man who wants her to be loyal with him but share him with several other wives.

If both a man and woman are given the right to have other partners, then this is fair, but in 99% of the cases the man wants to be the sole polygamous partner and there is nothing but inequality in this.

(Above is Pharaoh Amenhotep III with his SOLE wife, Queen. Cairo Museum)