The following week, Dr. Greg Carr spoke about the great wisdom and stolen history of our African ancestors. He first explained and gave definition of encouraging words from ancient Kemet. Such words such as ma’at, Iwa- I’ewa, Iwa- l'aiya and sankofa which all has to do with ones education, character and the truth. The teachings of these words were all tied into the miseducation of the American “negro”. Our ancestors came from such great countries with unique traditions, beliefs and teachings just to be completely stripped of those very things that made them proud and given the name slave. The brain washing of the African slaves led to the re writing of history of our people. We should understand and follow the words Seba/Sebayt and sankofa; the teachings and “go and get it.” African Americans should go get and relearn their peoples teachings that they lost so long ago.
Education of our ancestor is the only way we can truly learn and understand ourselves. We should reclaim our history and pass down the knowledge that we received. I believe Dr Carr’s lecture opened many of our eyes. He brought up historical facts that many of us was not aware of. The African world experience is not something that is spoken about in a positive light. The “Learning, Wisdom, and the African World Experience” slide has gotten the attention of us younger Africans to search for the truth, the real truth of our people. Carr’s lecture is the beginning of regaining our history back.
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ReplyDeleteColin Adebayo
Dr. Carr gave a Lecture this week named Learning, Wisdom, and the African World Experience: An Mbongi; this speech was both empowering and enlightening. His research on ancient 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 his lecture Dr. Carr also explained a quote by E. Franklin Frazier in which he criticized the intellectual negro for his limited thinking, and lack of philosophical insight on the meaning of life or lack thereof. Kemet (Ancient Egypt) was also a major focus of the lecture, Dr. Carr greatly stressed the importance of Kemet not only because it is 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. Africans have been greatly ignored by the historians because in the history books we are only a small part when in reality we are the larger percentage of ancient history. The first woman was an African, the first world conquering empire was Kemet(Ancient Egypt) not Rome, even the pyramids which today are still thought of as architectural marvels were built and designed by Africans. Dr. Carr’s lecture was informative and has even managed to inspire me to look deeper into the ancient history of Africa, which is really the ancient history of man since it all began in the motherland.