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page 56: ...The human race must have been considered there as spontaneous,
having been born in the upper areas of Ethiopia where the two sources of life -- heat
and humidity -- are ever present. It is also in this region that the first glimmerings of
history reveal the origin of societies and the primitive home of civilization. In the
earliest Antiquity, before the ordinary calculations of history, a social organization
appears, fully structured, with its religion, laws and institutions. The Ethiopians
boasted of having been the first to establish worship of the divinity and the use of
sacrifices. There, too, the torch of science and the arts was probably first lighted. To
this people we must attribute the origin of sculpture, the use of written symbols, in
short, the start of all the developments that make up an advanced civilization.
page 71: ...The Egyptians seem quite early to have lost the memory of their
beginnings. Did they come from Central Africa or from the interior of Asia?
According to the almost unanimous testimony of the ancient historians, they belonged
to an African race which, first established in Ethiopia on the Middle Nile, gradually
came down toward the sea, following the course of the river.
page 140: ...A dynamic, modern contact with Egyptian Antiquity would enable
Blacks to discover increasingly each day the intimate relationship between all Blacks
of the continent and the mother Nile Valley. By this dynamic contact, the Negro will
be convinced that these temples, these forests of columns, these pyramids, these
colossi, these bas-reliefs, mathematics, medicine, and all this science, are indeed the
work of his ancestors and that he has a right and a duty to claim this heritage.
page 230: According to the unanimous testimony of the Ancients, first the Ethiopians
and then the Egyptians created and raised to an extraordinary stage of development
all the elements of civilization, while other peoples especially the Eurasians, were still
deep in barbarism.
having been born in the upper areas of Ethiopia where the two sources of life -- heat
and humidity -- are ever present. It is also in this region that the first glimmerings of
history reveal the origin of societies and the primitive home of civilization. In the
earliest Antiquity, before the ordinary calculations of history, a social organization
appears, fully structured, with its religion, laws and institutions. The Ethiopians
boasted of having been the first to establish worship of the divinity and the use of
sacrifices. There, too, the torch of science and the arts was probably first lighted. To
this people we must attribute the origin of sculpture, the use of written symbols, in
short, the start of all the developments that make up an advanced civilization.
page 71: ...The Egyptians seem quite early to have lost the memory of their
beginnings. Did they come from Central Africa or from the interior of Asia?
According to the almost unanimous testimony of the ancient historians, they belonged
to an African race which, first established in Ethiopia on the Middle Nile, gradually
came down toward the sea, following the course of the river.
page 140: ...A dynamic, modern contact with Egyptian Antiquity would enable
Blacks to discover increasingly each day the intimate relationship between all Blacks
of the continent and the mother Nile Valley. By this dynamic contact, the Negro will
be convinced that these temples, these forests of columns, these pyramids, these
colossi, these bas-reliefs, mathematics, medicine, and all this science, are indeed the
work of his ancestors and that he has a right and a duty to claim this heritage.
page 230: According to the unanimous testimony of the Ancients, first the Ethiopians
and then the Egyptians created and raised to an extraordinary stage of development
all the elements of civilization, while other peoples especially the Eurasians, were still
deep in barbarism.
| excerpts from the book... The African Origin Of Civilization Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop |