Afrocentricity: Unifying African Americans and Africans for their common good
Past, Present, and Future of the People called African Americans
Afrocentricity refers to an intellectual paradigm within the field of Black Studies.
This is a collection of Black Studies to understand the Past, Present and Future of
the People called African American!
"Black" in this context is an ethno-racial classification label applied to certain human populations.
The English word was spawned by the European colonization and conquest of non-Europeans, however the concept of Black people can be found as early as
the 2nd Century B.C.E.. It solidified into popular culture during the enlightenment as one of the four major categories into which European philosophers
tried to organize the newly discovered human diversity. The categories were based upon skin tone as perceived by Europeans of the time: Red (Native Americans),
Yellow (East Asians), White (Europeans), and Black (Africans).
Afrocentrism is a worldview or ideology that focuses on the lives and creations of black people.
More particularly, it often seeks to emphasize the contributions of black African peoples and the African diaspora over other peoples.
The beginnings of modern Afrocentric scholarship can be found in the work of African-American and
Caribbean intellectuals early in the twentieth century. Publications such as The Crisis and the Journal of Negro History sought to counter the
prevailing view in the West that Africa had contributed nothing of value to human history that was not the result of incursions by Europeans and Arabs.
Since the dawn of recorded history humans have tried to classify each
other with various descriptive names in an attempt to organize their environment. The Ancient hebrews used the word "Kushim" from the Egyptian "K'sh" as a specific
label of identifying people from Africa who were of naturally dark complexion. It is difficult to discern whether this label was originally applied merely to skin
tone or if it considered the regional or ethnic identity of groups. This is because ancient cultures did not usually associate skin tone with group identity.
A dark-skinned person was not considered less of a Hebrew or Egyptian than someone of lighter complexion. The early Greeks and Romans called various dark skinned
peoples by various names: Aegypts and Aethiops referred to their burnt colored skin. Melanogaetulians were dark skinned people in the north. Leukaethiops meant
light burnt faces. Until at least the 14th century, this word Aethiops had been the word of choice in Europe and much of the middle east to describe darker skinned
people, especially those from Africa.
"Wealth is to have your own Land, Language and Culture! Where is the Land of the African American? What is the Language?
And, Where is the Culture of the people?"
African Americans - an Edenic Holy Land People
African Edenic connection of African Americans to the Holy Land Israel.
We encourage everyone to explore the history of African Americans, to learn about our struggles and to celebrate our successes. And, related studies of African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction in light of education, politics, religion and spiritual discipline.
Black History Month: Celebrate Year Round
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans. It is a time set aside to recognize the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. African American leaders, artists and writers have helped to shape the character and identity of the American nation. Names such as Harriet Tubman with the Underground Railroad, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Selma and the Montgomery March, as well as the Black Lives Matter movement have influenced the history of America and the world.
African Americans are descended from various ethnic groups. From ethnic groups that lived in Western and Central Africa and the Sahel. Some African Americans are descended from ethnic groups that lived in Eastern and Southeastern Africa. The majority of enslaved Africans belonged ethnic groups that included the Hausa, Bakongo, Igbo, Mandé, Wolof, Akan, Fon, Yoruba, and Makua, among many others. Although these different groups varied in customs, religious theology and language, what they had in common was a way of life that was liken unto the Hebrew Israelites of ancient Israel.
Christianity was forced on the enslaved Africans. Latter, in the South the slaves sat in the upper galleries of white churches and Free Black people in the North set up their own networks of churches.
The (1800–1830s) has been called the "central and defining event in the development of Afro-Christianity." Many enslaved Blacks considered finding a way to return to Africa. Politically and economically, Black people have made substantial strides in the post-civil rights era.
After the Civil Rights Movement gains of the 1950s–1970s (Actually an African American Freedom Struggle), due to government neglect, unfavorable social policies, high poverty rates, changes implemented in the criminal justice system and laws, and a breakdown in traditional family units, African-American communities have been suffering from extremely high incarceration rates. African Americans have the highest imprisonment rate of any major ethnic group in the world.
The future of african americans is repatriation to Africa! To return to our Home land, our culture, spiritual beliefs and love for our people. Back to Africa - Ghana repatriation!
