DR. Carr

This week the lecture Learning, Wisdom, and the African World Experience: An Mbongi was given by Dr. Carr. Many people do not know that African language proved that education, literature, and even scholarship began in Africa. Dr. Carr emphasized that words like Sedjem, Ma’at, Sedi, Sankofa, and many more were all existent words long before the colonization of Africa by Europeans. During the sermon Dr. Carr also went into depth of a quote from E. Franklin Frazier in which he complained that the intellectual negro was to blame for his limited thinking, and lack of philosophical insight on the meaning of life or lack thereof. Kemet also known as Ancient Egypt was of very important significance in the lecture, Our professor greatly expressed the significance of Kemet not only because it was the most advanced of any African civilization but because many civilizations European, African, or Middle Eastern built their empires on the same principles of the ancient Egyptians in Kemet. Africans is under rated in the history books as the race that were just slaves and that is it. In When being studied we are seen as insignificant and not important. The first woman was an African, the first world conquering empire was ancient Egypt or Kemet not Rome, even the pyramids which today are still thought of as architectural wonders of the world were built and designed by Africans. Dr. Carr’s lecture was informative and almost forces one to explore and go into depth about the hidden history of Africa that people do not want us to know, which is really the ancient history of man since it all began in Africa.