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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... symbolism , their abstract thoughts and their concepts . As a preview to later discussions , creativity concerns using ... symbol of a large number of similar , yet non - identical observations of basic characteristic ( Bailey , " Self ...
... symbolism and the mental machinery of abstract thought , creativity , and complex behavior long before it was seen in ... SYMBOL IS ANYTHING REFERRING TO OR REPRESENTING OR SIGNIFYING SOMETHING ELSE . An example 20 Joseph A. Bailey , II ...
... symbol and the thing it stands for is Ancient Africans ' treatment of a person's name as an essential part of him / her . But for purposes of clearer understanding , let us over - simplify a symbol to be an object - a material thing we ...
... symbols are dance and music because they express life dramatically . For Africans on the diaspora ( e.g. those located outside of Africa ) , dance and music have served as nonverbal communication as well as represent the only media ...
... SYMBOL WAS QUITE AS VALUABLE AS A NATURALISTIC REPRESENTATION . In fact , the diagrammatic art they brought from Interior Africa ( about 75,000 years ago ? ) reflected beginnings of writing . The Caspians are perhaps the best ...
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 |