Oral Tradition and Archeological Evidence For the Mande origin of the Ancient Tichitt Civilization
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"During this final phase the Dhar Tichitt-Walata counts 90 villages built...before settling again and forming the kingdom of Ghana"

- Professor Augustin Holl



"Neolithic sites there are attributed by the present nomadic population of the country to the Gangara, who were probably ancestors of the Soninke. Indeed, Azer, a Soninke dialect, is still spoken in Walata, Nema, Tichitt, and even in Shingit"

- Professor George E Brooks

When most people think of ancient history, their mind usualy goes to the Romans or the Hebrews of biblical scripture but the Ancient West African Tichitt Civilization of Mauritania and Mali is older than both the Romans and the Hebrews. Beginning 2200 BCE



"Southern Mauritania have revealed a wealth of rather spectacular stone masonry villages which were occupied by prehistoric cultivators.... It is argued that the inhabitants of these villages were Negro and very probably Soninke"
- Professor Patrick J. Munson

In 1595 an anonymous Spaniard living in Morocco wrote about how the Kanem empire acquired guns from Turkish soldiers. He mentions that this empire boarders a Kingdom of Black Christians converted by the Portuguese, referring to the Kongo.

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Quote from: "Relation de la Jornada que El Rey Marruecos he hecho a la conquista del reyno de Gago" by an anonymous Spaniard, 1595

Ruth B. Fisher, a British missionary wrote about the pre colonial African science and surgery of Uganda in 1911 :

"Vaccination for small-pox was known long before European influence reached them, as people were inoculated with the lymph taken from the arm of an affected person" "knowledge of surgery....Possessing no surgical implements, they operated clumsily but often successfully with their ordinary septic belt knives"

- Twilight tales of the Black Baganda, Ruth B. Fisher, 1911

"If there had not been an Nkrumah and his followers in Ghana, Ghana would still be a British colony"
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr "Ghana has something to say to us. It says to us first, that the oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it"
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Look at how narratives about Africa are purposely angled in a certain way to down play the oppression of African people, there were traitors among the Jews in Nazi Germany and traitors among Native American tribes and no one would dare minimalize their experiences. Purposely misleading narratives about the trans Atlantic slave trade conveniently ignore African Kingdoms like the Nri of Nigeria that never sold slaves or King Amador who lead a Maroon rebellion on the African island of São Tomé & Príncipe against the Portuguese in 1595.

Asante Traditional Buildings In Ghana
Architecture from the Asante Empire
Late 1600's AD - 1900 AD



"Arranged around courtyards, the buildings are constructed of timber, bamboo and mud plaster and originally had thatched roofs. The unique decorative bas-reliefs that adorn the walls are bold and depict a wide variety of motifs" - UNESCO World Heritage Convention

Marble portrait bust and painting of Antonio Manuel, ambassador of the Kongo kingdom in Rome, 1608 AD

Antonio Manuel traveled to Brazil and freed a Kongo nobleman who had been captured and enslaved. "He also wanted to go to Brazil to attempt to free a Kongo nobleman who had been wrongly enslaved. Manuel demonstrated considerable diplomatic skills in successfully accomplishing this man's release from slavery" - Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The MESSAGE Not The Messenger

One thing I've noticed about our people is that we have a hard time receiving the message. The messenger can't be to ugly or to short, to light skin or to dark skin, Christian like Marcus Garvey, or Muslim like Malcolm X. Historical African kingdoms that we deemed to be of the "wrong faith" are dismissed. Despite lessons to be learned from them. African history is not perfect or flawless but we have to be open to a non biased reflection of it.

The African King Who Freed 1000 Enslaved Africans From Brazil

King Pedro II of The Kingdom of Kongo, 1622 AD
(THREAD) Pedro II Nkanga a Mvika began his political career in the Kongo as the "Duke of Mbamba". After the death of King Álvaro III in 1622, Pedro was made king, due to the fact that King Álvaro died young with no offspring.

Dr. John Henrik Clarke Speaking About The Importance Of Having A
Pan African Army :

"When World War II ended, a body of African people, mostly African-Americans were available to Africa and they could have been picked up very cheaply if Africa was organized to do so" "Africa would have a fine modern army. Our enemy had trained us to protect him, and they had taught us the technique of this protection. He had taught us how to kill them when he wanted other Europeans killed, and we did it well" - Dr. John Henrik Clarke

The Kongo Prophetess Dona Beatriz

A Early Pan Africanist Woman Who Tried To Stop Slavery And Unify All Of Central Africa
1684 – 1706
(THREAD ) Dona Beatriz was born of Noble blood in 1684 AD, during a time when the Kongo was going through a civil war. She spent time studying to become a "nganga marinda", a person who could speak directly to the ancestors in the spiritual realm.

"Great Benin where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious" - Lourenco Pinto 1691 AD "Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms" - Olfert Dapper, 1668 AD

"U.S. politics is ruled by special-interest blocs and lobbies. What group has a more urgent special interest, what group needs a bloc, a lobby, more than the black man?" - Malcolm X, 1965 "Labor owns one of Washington’s largest non-government buildings—situated where they can literally watch the White House—and no political move is made that doesn’t involve how Labor feels about it. A lobby got Big Oil its depletion allowance." - Malcolm, 1965

"Western historians have falsely assigned Ghana an origin of approximately 300 AD, in their attempt to keep all of the African nations south of the Sahara to history without pre-Christian origin" - Black Man Of The Nile And His Family by Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan

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"As the desert advanced, the Dhar Tichitt culture moved southward into the still well watered areas of northern Mali. This now seems the likely history of the civilization that can be documented at Koumbi Saleh" - African Time by Ife Killmanjaro

Dr. Carter G Woodson on the Mali Empire :

"the left bank of the Niger developed heroic leaders. Operating from Kangaba, sometimes called Kanga, the capital of Manding, they made for themselves a place in history among the greatest rulers of their day"
#BlackHistoryMonth #Day2 "This city has been the center of the Malinké, or Mandingo people...For several hundred years this city was the capital of one of the greatest empires ever developed in Africa and one of the most considerable that ever existed in the history of man" - Dr. Carter G Woodson

Tupac Shakur was raised & mentored his whole life by Black Panthers. In 1989 he himself became the national chairman of the New Afrikan Panthers

"I believe that New Afrikan Panthers are about really reaching out and embracing serious freedom" - Tupac
#BlackHistoryMonth #Day2

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In 1991 he started a rap group and a program called "The underground railroad", seeking to create a alternative way out of the streets for young Black men.

The title of Lauryn's Hill 1998 debut solo album "The miseducation of Lauryn hill" was inspired by Carter G Woodsons 1933 book "The miseducation of the Negro".
#BlackHistoryMonth #Day1 "you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America" - Dr. Carter G Woodson

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson founded Negro history week in 1926, to honor & teach the hidden contributions of African descendants to human history, often overlooked in Eurocentric academia. He dedicated his life to preserve those missing pages of our history
#BlackHistoryMonth #Day1 Dr. Carter G Woodson was the author of several books, dealing with medieval and modern Black history. In his book "African heroes and heroines" he speaks on the history of West African civilizations, one of the ancestral homelands of African Americans.

Neolithic Kiffian
Reconstruction of Ancient Saharan Skeletal remains from Gobero, Niger 7500 BC.

They were 6 feet tall and Craniometric analysis indicates that they were closely related to the Late Pleistocene Iberomaurusians and early Holocene Capsians of the Maghreb.

"sub-Saharan DNA in the Iberomaurusian genome, Iberomaurusians may have gotten it from migrants from the south who were their contemporaries. Or they may have inherited the DNA from much more ancient ancestors" - Oldest DNA from Africa offers clues to mysterious ancient culture