The Destruction Of Black Civilization!

24/10/2005:

The legacy of Chancellor Williams in:
The Destruction of Black Civilization:
PART ONE
Deborah Gabriel // Copyright © www.blackbritain.co.uk
Dr Chancellor James Williams was born in Bennettsville, South Carolina on 22 December 1898 to a father who had once been a slave and a mother who was a cook, nurse and evangelist.
After receiving an undergraduate degree in Education and a master's degree in History from Howard University, Williams became a visiting research scholar at Oxford University and the University of London in England.
However, it was William's research in African history at Ghana University in West Africa in 1956 that was the beginning of his focus on ancient African civilizations and achievements. In 1964 he looked at 26 countries and more than 100 language groups.
Renowned as a novelist, historian, author and university Professor, Williams is best remembered for his epic work: The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC to 2000 AD which we will now look at.
Williams motivation for writing 'The Destruction of Black Civilization' stemmed from his belief that white scholars always told the history of Africa as a tale of Arabs and Europeans but never included Africans in Africa.
In his book he asserted that Black kings and pharaohs of Upper Egypt were erased out of history and African names were replaced with Arabic ones.
According to Williams's research the history of the Black race began in Ethiopia and Sudan (formerly southern Ethiopia). The meaning of Sudan is 'land of the Blacks' just as Egypt was once called 'land of the Blacks'.
In ancient times Upper Ethiopia became rich in food production and "stirred the envy of Asia and Europe which caused migrants from these continents to settle in Africa."
Asian and European occupation of the seacoasts of North Africa was easy and first welcomed by the indigenous Black population as trading opportunities but then poor nomads started to flood the most fertile and accessible areas in North Africa.
According to Williams the weaker and more submissive Blacks remained in Asian-occupied territory and became slave labourers. The sexual trafficking of Black women produced a new breed of Afro-Asians who were classed as white or Asian, but not as Black people.
Williams writes that many of the mixed race Africans objected to identification as Black and became known as Egyptians. These mixed race Africans joined with their Asian fathers to enslave Blacks until all of North Africa fell into their hands.
The Asians and Europeans took over the best quarter of African land, the most fertile and inhabitable, leaving the remaining three quarters of virtually uninhabitable land to the indigenous Africans:
"[They] became a wandering people, forever migrating in their own vast homeland, fragmenting from great united nations into countless little splinter societies, considering themselves quite different from their original brothers who were then regarded as strangers and enemies in the endless wars that ensued."
According to Williams the Blacks had everything the world wanted: "gold, diamonds, ivory, copper, iron ore and themselves."


Black achievements in ancient Africa
One of the most significant aspects of William's book is the way in which he corrects centuries of racism that saw white archaeologists and historians seek to deny the presence of African civilization even when the evidence was overwhelming.
For example, even when Sneferu's Black Queen Mertitefs was found by archaeologists she was described as of an inferior race and not of "the high type." The Great Sphinx is the portrait statue of the Black Pharaoh Khafre and his African facial features are quite unmistakeable.
Nekheb was the African Egyptian capital and Thebes and Napata were the cultural centres of the Black world.
It was Black Africans who established the Dynastic system in Egypt about 3100 BC. The chief pyramid builders came from the Fourth Dynasty. Africans also developed one of the oldest written languages. Egyptian is an African language with a later influence similar to Arabic or Swahili.
Early Africans were very religious people and built several religious cities, each one having a special God or Goddess. Many of the temples were more like colleges as different fields of study took place within the temples.
However, Early Greeks and Romans reshaped them making them parts of western culture. Both Europe and Asia seized and transported from Africa as much of the artefacts of its civilization as they could.
As early as the 6th century BC, Cambyses hauled away over $100,000,000 of precious historical materials from Thebes because the Black tombs contained not only historical material but treasures in gold and precious stones.
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