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The machine gun and the Berlin conference- Africa must learn SCIENCE to survive into the future

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 Where is our mother of all bombs in Africa? Where are our nuclear weapons? The machine gun and the Berlin conference  I've been thinking aloud for some days now about the Israel-Iran conflict. And with the US entering the conflict, it's now a war, some people even say this could be the beginning of the third world war. This keeps me wondering: what if this conflict was between Israel and Nigeria?  What if this war was between Israel and Ghana? What if this war was between Israel and Uganda? What if this war was between Israel and Kenya or Zimbabwe or Ethiopia or Sudan or any other African country? If that was the case; how will we defend ourselves? I now fully realize why Dr. Amos Wilson, during one of his lectures asked; if white people decide tomorrow that they want to remove us Africans from this planet; how will we defend ourselves?  They've already tried doing that in the past, it's just that they didn't succeed. And there's nothing in history that says th...

Top 10 Africans & African-American scholars of black history you should know

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Africans and African-American scholars of black history you should know Black history/ African-American history / African historians Africans must realize that the history we study in school is a European version of African history. Why? Because the Europeans after conquering the rest of the world and colonizing so many nations, installed their language, education, religion, in all conquered colonies, and in the process also installed their point of view about accounts of events (history), so the history we are taught is simply European account, not our account. If we colonized Europeans, history would've been different, it would've been to elevate ourselves. Look, the account they gave us is not a true historical account because history is written from the view point of the writer. In fact, history is written by the victors, not the vanquished. If I conquer you, if I enslave you, if I colonize you, I'll write your history to favor me and I'll force you to study...