"The study of history too can become warped. The colonized African student, whose roots in his own society are systematically starved of sustenance, is introduced to Greek and Roman history, the cradle history of modern Europe, and he is encouraged to treat this portion of the... 
story of man together with the subsequent history of Europe as the only worthwhile portion.This history is anointed with a universalist flavoring which titillates the palate of certain African intellectuals so agreeably that they become alienated from their own immediate society"
"One of these subtle methods is to be found in the account of history. The history of Africa, as presented by European scholars, has been encumbered with malicious myths. It was even denied that we were a historical people"
"Earlier on, such disparaging accounts had been given of AFrican society and culture to appear to justify slavery... when the slave trade and slavery became illegal, the experts on Africa yielded to the new wind of change, and now began to present African culture and society...
as being so rudimentary and primitive that colonialism was a duty of Christianity and civilization.... Our highly sophisticated culture was said to be simple and paralyzed by inertia and we had to be encumbered by tutelage."
"And this tutelage...could only be implemented if we were subjugated politically. The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as a history of its dominant class."
"But if the history of a nation, or a people, cannot be found in a history of a class, how much less can the history of a continent be found in what is note even a part of it-- Europe."
"If African history is interpreted in terms of the interests of European merchandise and capital, missionaries and administrators, it is no wonder that African nationalism is in the forms it takes regarded as a perversion and neocolonialism as a virtue"
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