ECHOES OF ANCIENT AFRICAN VALUESAncient Africans, perhaps around 5500 BC, established a tradition based upon truth, goodness, beauty, and other immaterial and intangible aspects of things of worth. Believing all of God’s creations were forever linked, they focused on having good relations with and behaviors toward fellow human beings and with nature – both for the purpose of reaching a heaven afterlife. Out of these concepts arose the sense of community, including the practice of no person being left behind. Echoes of Ancient African Values discusses who Ancient Africans were as a people; their genius and creative ways of thinking; their philosophical and spiritual foundations; and their world shaping achievements. Unfortunately, peoples throughout the world have failed to realize or acknowledge the fact that Ancient Africans have produced the most brilliance civilization and culture the world has ever known. This applies whether the measure is by significance, greatness, or numbers. The fashioning of such brilliance inside high morals not only transcended space and time but also designed sublime echoes. A major premise of this book is that these echoes were extremely instrumental in enabling Ancient African slaves to survive their hellish situation as well as having ongoingly contributed to the recovery of Black Americans from the effects of slavery. Numerous examples are given. Otherwise, what is stressed to all peoples in the world is that Ancient African Values contain workable answers for solving every type of problem concerning humanity. |
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... result in practicing the right relations with and behaviors toward fellow human beings . This focus , in my opinion , means that of all of the world's great societies , Ancient African society came closest to human perfection and ...
... result of writing this book , my own worldview was redesigned . Up to that point , I had primarily absorbed Eurocentric worldviews . Those worldviews left me confused because there was no ultimate source out of which Eurocentric values ...
... resulting from the varying and often emotional opinions of interested individuals concerning the premise upon which any significant Afrocentric discussion is to be based . Afrocentric is defined by Asante ( The Afrocentric Idea , p . 2 ) ...
... result of this " cornerstone " concept , Ancient Africans said they were made in the image of God ; were therefore spiritually related ; and all had the duty to show harmony and unity through fellowship , through a sense of community ...
... results so as to explain events in nature . One of my jobs in the legal arena was to distinguish conscious deceivers ( out - right liars ) , from self - deceivers ( people who wrongly believe they have an organic problem ) , from ...
Contents
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Ancient African People | 50 |
Rituals and Rites | 56 |
Lineage Systems | 62 |
Great Black Europeans | 162 |
Rise of Knights | 175 |
SECTION III RISE OF RACISM | 183 |
AFRICAS DECLINE | 197 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES | 211 |
Methods of Willie Lynch Slavemaster | 223 |
Malicious Naming | 229 |
ANCIENT AFRICAN ECHOES IN AMERICA | 237 |
Judicial System | 68 |
Goddess Maat | 78 |
Ancient African Education | 97 |
Tribal Life Education | 105 |
Ancient African Science | 112 |
Ancient African Literature | 123 |
Ancient African World Gifts | 139 |
African American Philosphers | 258 |
African American Religions | 265 |
Black American Cultural Achievements | 275 |
Closing Remarks | 309 |
Index | 315 |
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Echoes of Ancient African Values Joseph A. Bailey II M. D. F. a. C. S.,Joseph A. Bailey No preview available - 2005 |