The Africans Who Discovered Europe — Black (First) Europeans Part II
The Africans Who Discovered Europe 45,000 BCE
It is not without some ironic humor that one considers the incendiary sentiments of the modern European politicians especially Spanish politicians respecting African immigration. It is usually forgotten in the tumult of patriotic passion that the notions of country, nation and state are very fragile and susceptible to time. It is forgotten that many of those that live in countries such as Spain are not indigenous to the place. Rather their ancestors were once immigrants into the areas or belonged to pillaging armies and tribes that committed a thousand unspoken atrocities.
And for many of today’s would be Spaniards, perhaps it is time they and the world are reminded once again that the borders of Africa have historically ended on the Pyrenees. The Iberian Peninsula has always been a part of Africa and has featured prominently in African history and psyche from the earliest periods of prehistory.
Black Africans had first settled Spain, which was once physically attached to North Africa. Black Africans were the aborigines of Spain. Those same Africans migrated over and again in recurring tides of human movement. It is thus not surprising that Africans have lived in Spain for hundreds and thousand of years as Spaniards until the 1492 conquest of Granada by the piratical armies of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabelle of Castille. Those two later oversaw the systematic expulsion from Spain (back to Africa or enslavement in West Indies), of the most “negroid†of the Black Spaniards (the so-called “Muslims†who had ruled for 700 years without interuption). Yet, African blood remains very dominant and highly visible in southern Spain no, the entire Iberian Peninsula one would dare say, even up to this day.
The genetic heritage of the Black African, which bears the original genetic tree of humanity, is very persistent and pervasive. Black Africans having birthed and built Spain, remain firmly intertwined in the midst of the Spanish population thriving. The blood of the original Spaniards continues to flourish in Spain. The blood of the Black Africans who always lived in Spain (often by themselves, but sometimes with their paler cousins like the Visigoths) through the dawn of pre-history, down to 1500 AD simply refused to be wiped away by denial, silence or historical distortion.
Now let the reader be aware, that the natural motions of creation may be interfered with for a while but the will of nature must eventually be respected. Spain is the natural haunt and playground of the Black African. Nature requires that Africans will like the inundations of the River Nile periodically rise from Africa to replenish the genetic and the cultural pool of their original heritage. After reading the brief outline of history that follows hereunder and doing the follow-up independent research it calls for, one will understand when it is declared herein that, Africans once marched in Spain as its original owners, Africans will once again march through Spain.
African Owners of EuropeThe so called Grimaldi, a nation of Black Africans were the first modern human nation to arrive in Europe. Their significance has always been clouded by the funny nomenclatures used to designate them i.e. Grimaldi, Neolithic men, etc. This reason for this being that many modern European historians steeped in the pervasive racism of their culture, would earnestly wish away the significance of the Grimaldi, and the founding role of Africans in the making of Europe and its present day inhabitants. The founding of Europe by Africans is one of those inconvenient historical facts that completely make a mess of the Eurocentric matrix of world history as developed by the western culture.
Into EuroLand
Just like the modern day immigrants of Africa who are today lured to Europe by forces lying buried in their genetic programming, the Grimaldi moved inexplicably from their lush and vast ancestral Africa into the southern but balmier shores of cold Europe.
They left Africa in waves of migratory movements beginning as far as the Cape of South Africa. They were in Europe as early as 45,000 years ago. On their way, most of them stopped settled and developed many nations in Africa. Many of those nations founded the groupings that currently exist in modern states of Central, West and North Africa.
45,000 years ago, there were no Straits of Gibraltar. It is speculated that theGrimaldis walked on dry land into Spain and France, into Italy, moving northwardinto Lombardy. They also dispersed into Bulgaria, Switzerland, Illyria and Southern Europe on the Adriatic Sea and into the area consisting of the modern England, Wales and Scotland.
The Grimaldi brought the first material culture to Europe evidence of which they left all over Southern Europe. These include artifacts such as gemstone pendants, stone implements, and symbols of communication.
Roots and Culture
The Grimaldi produced a joyful, spiritual culture which by all measures was relatively advanced for its time. Their artwork, and their cultural styles and fashion were surprisingly refreshing.
The Grimaldis depicted images of themselves with elaborate hairdo, which have been compared in appearance to those of modern African Blacks. Some wore their hair coiffure in fashions that resembled today’s cornrows. Others wore a peppercorn like style, where the hair is put into little black rolls or heads. The fact is that all the styles depicted by the ancient Grimaldi resemble what one could come across today in modern West Africa, or the Caribbean or United States.
The Grimaldi brought innovative sparks of the arts, as well as the survival skills, which gave new life to the staid and stagnant Neanderthal-period Europe. During the later Paleolithic period, the Grimaldi were the most powerful and influential cultural force on the European continent.
Archaeologists have uncovered Grimaldi arts of great antiquity but extraordinary workmanship. For instance, Graham Clarke, writing in the Dawn of Civilization designated the statue of the “Maid of Willendorf†designed and molded by some un-named Grimaldi artist and later found in Austria, as “the first designs of art on earth.†The remnants of their artwork suggest an idea of the extent of their migration. Pieces of Grimaldi sculpture have been found as far flung as southern Siberia and Russia.
The Grimaldi bequeathed useful tools like the bow and arrow to later Europeans. They also left rudimentary musical instruments providing an idea of how much they cherished joyfulness. These artifacts were crucial in the survival of later generations of barbaric peoples of Europe through prehistory until the coming of the Romans.
Their Bones Tell Tales Beyond Their Graves
Archeaological and genetic evidence have demonstrated that the Grimaldi were Blacks of the Central and West African typology. It is said that their facial and head characteristics resembled the Koramus people of South Africa and the San tribe (so called Bushmen) who were to come many thousands of years later.
Neolithic graves in Europe and Africa highlight the African origin of the Grimaldi and hence Africa’s claim to Europe. Archeologists working in this field have repeatedly denoted the racial and morphological similarities between the early settlers of Europe and those of the African continent.
It has been observed in respect of those graves that “they are constructed on similar lines, and the great majority of the skeletons they contain are remarkablefor their uniformity of type.†“So strikingâ€, writes Professor Elliot Smith, “is the family likeness between the early Neolithic peoples of the British Isles and the Mediterranean and the bulk of the population, both ancient and modern, of Egypt and East Africa, that the description of the bones of an Early Briton of that remote epoch might apply in all essential details to an inhabitant of Somaliland.†(The Ancient Egyptians, p. 58.)
In his book titled Civilization or Barbarism, (1981), at page 15-16, Cheikh Anta Diop made the following observation:
“The Grimaldi Negroids have left their numerous traces all over Europe and Asia, from the Iberian Peninsula to Lake Baykal in Siberia, passing through France, Austria, the Crimea, and the Basin of Don, etc. In these last two regions, the late Soviet Professor Mikhail Gerasimov, a scholar of rare objectivity, identified the Negroid type from skulls found in the Middle Mousterian period.If one bases one’s judgment on morphology, the first White appeared only around 20,000 years ago: the Cro-Magnon Man. He is probably the result of a mutationfrom the Grimaldi Negroid due to an existence of 20,000 years in the excessively cold climate of Europe at the end of the last glaciation.
The Basques, who live today in the Franco-Catabrian region where the Cro-Magnon was born, would be his descendants; in any case there are many ofthem in the southern region of France.â€
Change of Baton
The Grimaldi culture began to wane around 12,000 BCE. Eventually they moved on and all their trace became lost. There are several theories as to why this occurred. One improbable claim was that the Cro-Magnons exterminated them. Another suggests intermarriage, or race mixing causing the Grimaldi to lose their Black color. A more likely explanation as posited by Diop and confirmed by genetic studies is that the Grimaldi later evolved into the Cro-Magnon, either through an independent mutation of genes responsible for the phenotype or by intermixture with the Neanderthal.
Yet, archeological diggings conducted on the European continent provide irrefutable evidence the Grimaldi were its earliest modern inhabitants. The opening of Grimaldi graves and other excavations have revealed skeletons and artifacts in layers below those of the Cro-Magnons.
Many anthropologists believe that the Grimaldi Negroid was the African Homosapien who migrated into Europe about 50,000 years ago and gradually changed from Black Grimaldi to “intermediate†Cro-Magnon to northern pale skin Europeans of today.
It appears that after all is said and done, the bones of those long departed African men and women surely tell many instructive tales. At least those of the most ancient Europeans have testified. What they tell us is that Black Africans discovered Europe, and that Black African is thus the root of Europe.
Other Migrations from Africa
The Grimaldi was not the only Black African nation to have migrated, dominated and civilized Europe in many fundamental ways. Around 8,500 BC, it is speculated that Iberia (Spain and Portugal) were occupied by the Iberian Capsin culture and France was occupied by the early Tardendsain (Tardenoisian) culture. These cultural strains belonged to a group of cultures extant at that time in Africa that had migrated north through Spain.
The Iberian culture, which arrived in Spain, (from Africa) is the root of the present day Basque culture found in Spain, and France. The peoples of the Iberian culture eventually mixed with the Celts to become the Celt-Iberian Culture. Neolithic Iberian (recent African immigrants), small dark and long-headed people also inhabited Wales and Cornwall.
Then there were other major migratory initiatives by later pre-dynastic Egyptians and Ethiopians, which led to the establishment of colonies in pre-Hellenic Greek and Etruscan territories (Italy). These later developed into the great Empires of the Mediterranean, of which history, culture and origin, modern day Europe is so adept at distorting.
Furthermore, the Egyptians (original Anus from Sudan), Phoenicians (Africans originally from Punt by the Red sea coast of Africa), and Ethiopians (the most ancient nation in Africa) also established colonies in England, and Ireland where they mined important mineral like tin. They had numerous settlements therein for hundreds of years and they made essential impact on the demographic make up of the British Isles.
Ancient Mauretania, Morocco, (Northwest Africa) Ghana Empire (West Africa), Bornu Empire, in Nigeria, had at different times in history traded heavily with the Mediterranean civilization and actually left discernable genetic footprints on Spain, Rome and Greece suggesting an influence and impact of no small measure. Actually, the Pyrenees in Spain was always regarded (since pre-history) as the original border of Africa with Europe.
Moreover, between 711AD to 1495AD West African ruling houses, most of them from the area lying between what is presently known as Nigeria and Senegal, ruled Spain. They civilized Spain, and Spain in turn became the civilizing torch that moved Europe out of the dark ages.
Incidentally, whenever a connection is made to the African substratum of Europe, these days, one is wont to hear some diseased racist minds suggesting that such connection most have been a consequence of enslavement or conquest.
That was never the case. Africa was the last continent on earth to see the enslavement of its people. Other continents had long perfected the art and science of enslavement of their people (for example Eastern (Slavic or Slave tribe of) Europe) before it was forcibly imposed on Africa these last 1,000 years, but most especially the last 500 years of European abated slave trade.
Chattel slavery first came to Africa with the subsequent corruption of the Islamic religion which turned many of its adherents into human predators. These were supported by the venal, corrupt and greedy muslim clerics who parasited on African people and continent. This was followed by the depredations of historic proportion wrought on Africa by the murderous European piratical slave dealers who introduced an extremely vicious aspect of human destruction unseen in history into the frame of things.
Nevertheless, besides this aberration that occurred the last 500 years, African migration into Europe had nothing to do with slavery but everything to do with trade, acculturation and sometimes colonization of Europe by those ancient and highly advanced Africans.
One can then begin to understand why this article commenced with a note of irony. The ancestors of those same Africans of today prevented from entering Western Europe by all sorts of immigration policy, were really the founders of Europe in general and Spain in particular. How febble a thing this human memory can prove.
In the near future, other articles will explore the nature and extent of those other great and historically significant migrations which modern racist scholarship seeks to hide away permanently. We will keep you posted.
Ogu Eji Ofor Annu
May 1, 2006
Sources:
Mark Hyman, Blacks Before America, Africa World Press Inc., Trenton,
NJ, 1994, pp. 108, 109
Cheik Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization, 1955 - 1974
Cheik Anta Diop, Civilization or Barbarism, (1981)
Dr. Rene Verneau, Les Grottes de Grimaldi, Vol. II., Monaco, 1906.
Encyclopedia Britanica online.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Brown Africans yes, Black Africans, No. The Paleoanthopologists found that the racial type of the neolithic peoples of Europe, North America, the Medditeranean regions, and even China were of skull types that actually predated racial categories of today and were most like peoples today who are of mixed race. All exhibited distinctive caucasian cranial features such as pronounced brows and square orbits, had large noses and long vs. round heads. On the other hand, they had quite asian features as well. Can it be that their hair and skin more closely resembled the African norm of today? Their sculptures and paintings seem to indicate this. It is interested to do an online study of cranial reconstructions of neolithic skeletons such as Spirit Cave Man, Kennewick Man, and so on. They in general closely resemble the mixed South American or Medditerraneans in my opinion, some are said to look like the polynesians or the Ainu of Japan. The Black Bantu tribes, on the other hand, are thought to be a quite recent expansion out of the Congo basin of Africa and are the most recent wave of people groups coming out of Africa. Of course, they probably were an early admixture all along anyway. Nice article.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
How is it that brown Africans discovered Europe but not black Africans? Is this division of color the result of the fact that you can’t face the possible truth that Africans whether they are brown, mahogany, chocolate, latte, butterscotch, dark black, middle black, really black, light brown, brownish-brown, brown, etc are responsible for building this giant, known as Europe. As you claim, if their “skull types predated racial categories†and can be described today as “mixed raceâ€, then how do you arrive at the conclusion that they exhibit distinctive Caucasian cranial features? Or why is it supposed that one of the race is Caucasian? Now if they actually predated racial categories, how did the paleoanthopologists determine their features? Or is their assumption based on a notion that Africans have a uniformed look?
May 8th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
“Human skin color is quite variable around the world. It ranges from a very dark brown among some Africans, Australians, and Melanesians to a near yellowish pink among some Northern Europeans. There are no people who actually have true black, white, red, or yellow skin. These are commonly used color terms that do not reflect biological reality.”
Human Biological Adaptability: Skin Color as an Adaptation
So consider the use of Black as an ethnic and cultural designation for Africa and its descendants. But truly like your racialist presumptions would suggest, “brown (and dark brown) Africans built Europe.”
No matter how you term it, Africa built Europe! And this fact will no more remain hidden.
Jahdey
May 10th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Thank you for your contribution, Sandy Van Eysinga. I also have read similar things. See my arguments here
“No matter how you term it, Africa built Europe! And this fact will no more remain hidden.â€
It can’t be “hidden†because it’s not fact, Jahdey. Why are you so preoccupied with Europe? See my arguments on the “African Roots of Ireland†page, as well as here
Europe is its own place, and Europeans are their own people. Your claims are false, Jahdey.
May 16th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Africa built Europe? what is it? Indo-europeans built Europe, and spaniards and caucasian mediterranean don’t share any ethnic characters with tribes from north africa. Please, respect my Ancient Mother Europe.
June 25th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Some mania causes these assertions, that “black” Africans built every other civilization. The evidence for Europe is clear: Cro-Magnon were the ancestors of modern Europeans, they migrated in from the East (steppes today). A few very early remains of “Grimaldi” type were found. After that, it is all Cro-Magnon.
The creators of European civilization, culture, and, yes, SPAIN, were Europeans. Sorry if those facts, all well-substantiated, threaten some people.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:45 am
Cro-Magnons are not the ancestors of [all] Modern europeans in my opinion. If you look at many europeans, today especially, you can see many similarities with their asian cousins. Compare even a dark skinned indian person, with his pointy nose, very straight hair, and low eyebrows and you can imagine that thousands of years-ago, or maybe even quite recently, europeans would have looked similar to this before they moved west into europe and mixed with cro-magnon and Neanderthal.
Cro-Magnons had high foreheads, long faces, and were by modern standards powerfully built. [Many] modern europeans do not fit this description (Irish people have small faces for example) and apart from skin colour resemble peoples of the indian sub continent-(even south Indians or aborigines). The [skin colour] of europeans and, maybe, a more stocky anatomy, I would say is due to a little Neanderthal Gene mixing. The very tall stature seen in homo sapiens comes from homo erectus, cro magnon was tall but he wasnt a bean pole! The last home of the Neanderthals was western europe and maybe southern europe(france, portugal, croatia, Gibraltar). In some of these regions even today you have people whose body anatomy doesn’t look anything like their supposed African ancestors of thousands of years ago, and if you put a Neanderthal next to them, he wouldnt look that out of place. Scientists try to say that the differences in all the races today is due to evolution over time and living in cold or warm climates affecting skin colour, body anotomy, etc. I doubt it. And this has happened in such a short space of time. One minute you’ve got these black people leaving Africa, and then you’ve got caucasians walking around with beards, spears, and long hair looking like hippys (the usual image in the Archaeology books anyway). So Africans mixed with these other ancient hominids. Its not as clear cut as the scientists would want us to believe, and they keep trying to put a nail in the coffin on the out of Africa debate.
Regards
August 28th, 2006 at 8:23 am
I never understand why Europeans just can not and will not admit that African’s Rule. I am a light skin African American woman with long black hair and I am always asked what am I what race and I? By white people. It burns me up. Is it that Europeans don’t think that blacks are beautiful or something. Yes the African race is of many colors the light the medium and the dark. I exhume my African Royalty every day by learning something new about ancient Africa and our people. What I have learned first and far most is that everything that any other race to this day is and will be is because of the of the ancient African’s….Flat out…And our ancient people were smart because they left traces of themselves all over the world just so that we could and other could know the truth. They just don’t want to admit it. In addition I read His-Story and none of it makes sense to me. Slowly but surely some European Archaeologist are starting to admit the truth because it right there. Two excellent sources that I have studied are the Destuction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams and the Susu Economis by Paul Alfred Barton. So be fair and learn the truth. Stop being closed minded and read outside of your imagination or your own culture.
The African were not the null and void people you want them to be. They were and always will be your daddy. Apparently there is a lot of doubt going on in a lot of people head even about the Ancient Egyptians that’s why they are digging up the all those kings graves trying to determine if they were black or white. Here’s a thought go dig up Alexanders The Great graves that’s if you can find it. Hotep/Imani
October 21st, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I think that there is a lack of evolutionary communication on this board. I hear people reaching without any substantial evidence. Emotional debate lack facts and are often times unresolved.
Rastas post was written exceptionally well on a historical basis but then there are those who wish to oppose such facts which introduces another form of research.
All people are of ancient African decent wither we want to accept that or not. Y-DNA, mtDNA, Linguistic, anthropology, archaeology bare witness to this factor.
The world is filled with children of Mother Africa but somewhere along the way people forgot and they began to change in color. Scientist have found the gene that transfored skin from brown i.e. black to it’s present form.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121501728_pf.html
Without this form of mutation their wouldn’t be a such thing as a racial issue.
Cranial studies are the most unstable for the simple fact that African around the world (note: brown/black Africans)cannot definded by one classification of Cranial research. African have them all. African Americans are a prime example of this, because they come in all shapes,sizes, colors and features. African Americans are representation of what Africa looks like.
Brown vs. Black = ignorance because their is no difference, just like there really isn’t a different with Black vs. White… 99% of dna is exactly the same in all of humanity and it is the one 1% that divides… That one percent cannot override the 99% so it is a racist ideology to participate in race discussion.
When someone on this board feel that it is time to discuss dna, linguistics and other forms of debate… I will be read and waiting.
Peace!~
October 26th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Afro-centrics are so annoying! Listen I am a native of Moroccan, Moroccan are not black! we are a separate race full stop! Berbers and Arabs all came to Africa via the Sinai! It was us responsible for the great civilisation in Andalusia Spain, Spain even accepts that the inhabitants of morocco conquered Spain in the name of Islam. However some Moroccans have heavy black ancestry. NORTH AFRICA SHOULD BE AKNOWLEDGED AS A SEPARATE REGION JUST LIKE NORTH AMERICA IS SEPARATE FROM SOUTH AMERICA!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
I am not trying to imply that Africans are primitive but this nonsense has to stop! I am convinced that all the Babel is a result of insecurity. STOP THE LIES!
November 17th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Typical nigger bullshit masquerading as intellectualism. Man oh man, you guys can’t even put a respectable government together in your own continent (Africa, my brutha). I can just see it now — the litany of rote responses coming:
: 1) “We can’t put a government together becaause of the white man”
2) “We can’t get respectable jobs because of the white man”
3) “the white man has all the power”
4) “We can’t obtain economic freedom because of the white man”
Let me ask you all a question. If the white man is so weak; and you are so strong, why are we supposedly able to keep you down for so long? You might want to ask yourselves this question: Is it the white man, or are we just innately stupid?
November 17th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Craig, in the 1930 Whites were 30% of the worlds population. Today they are 16%. Around 2100 it is predicted you will be 1% to 3%. While aids is not doing what it was designed to do in Africa. I agree with you that today we blame too much on the common white. Not the Rothchilds and the Bushs is a different thing. Black Africans weather in the U.S or where ever they can should take more control over thier societies. They should start migrating away from the US public education system, they should look at the investment opportunities in West Africa like the group we are working with. We do not need any affirmative action or qoutas there as we found out we are the affirmative and all others come beneath. We are /have built developments that are advertised as for Black People. Isn’t that something, there we can do this without fear of a lawsuit. Huh!
As I said, I think Blacks are depending too much on the whites to solve their problems. We should look at the other groups of West Africans who come here and make money to send back home. By the way, when traveling to other countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, or West African countries you “white man” is hated. I would never wear a garment with an american flag on it for fear it would be looked at as a bulls eye target. I do believe the hate is due to your white leaders who you fail to keep under close eye and demand they follow your Constitution.
Thanks
November 19th, 2006 at 1:27 am
So much scientific “inaccuracy” in this blog, I cant believe it!
“Negroes evolving into Cro-Magnon”, “blacks discvered europe”. These emotional outbursts are a great disservice to any race.
I am afraid the fact is that the Black/White racial issue has become the taboo ne-plus-ultra.
Almost nobody, black or white has the guts to look at the obvious racial diversity implications in an accurate scientific manner and dignity for truth, as is afforded when reseaching friut flies or nematode worms……The Blacks for fear of the implications and the White man for fear of being politically incorrect.
Lets live with the fact that Bronze age and iron age Africa never even existed.
Look ahead.
December 27th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Amazing article.
December 27th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Those of you white black and inbetween who don’t believe we were the O.G.’s of certain parts of Europe need to read Ancient and Modern Brtions Volumes 1 and 2
The funny thing is that there are references made of several white scholars and historians who tell it like it is and was and white people still don’t get it. Now that we have advanced in the science of genetics, it has also been proven that Europeans have black genes and visversa. Also Asians have a lot of Black in them. All come from the same stock. Whites want to separate and be different but you are outnumbered by Dark people eventhough you kills us and we kill us by the Millions each day.
December 27th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
White’s even have Black last names
like Dunmore (Duhb is Gaelic for black so is mor) The Black Douglases etc… It’s so funny. White people don’t even know the history of thier lastnames. They are just functional now but if you read books written by white historians that told the truth back in the 1800 you would have glimpse of your past. Which had lots of blacks in in it!!! Period.
February 6th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
To respond to Craig, you obviously don’t understand that put into a certain situation (and it has been proven), slavery could have occured and dehumanized any race. For instance, just as the whites have placed blacks into slavery, causing them to lose sense of self (with many exceptions), there were also instances in which whites were enslaved in Africa (I bet you didn’t know that…it’s even in your American Literature & History books: READ UP). Those whites who were enslaved, lost sense of self, were mentally dehumaized and acted as if they deserved the situation that they were put in. They were at such an emotional pit, that they often felt as less than human, or identifiable with animals. You see, it was that state that the Africans were put into that caused them to act in the manner that they did, which would have also occured if Africans enslaved Europeans instead. So it goes both ways. The simple fact that you can admit to “keeping a race down” for so long shows your inhumane values, and your barbaric traits. Score one for the white race! It seems that other races took too kindly to the white race, by showing them hospitality and kindness, and the insticts of the so called “strong white man” was to repay their hospitable guest by enslaving them, torturing them, raping their women (and men in some instances), and doing other ungodly deeds that are no more suiting for a human as an animal. If you believe thats what makes a strong race, then that tells me alot about you. The things that whites did to the native americans, the africans, and the aborigines were far from acceptable, far from humane and probably the definately not a sign of a strong race. It’s funny that you could be a supremist amongst such a group of barbaric maniacs. Is it our ancestors fault for being compassionate and helpful? Maybe so, but imagine where you would be had it not been so. And think about this, before whites could compare themselves against others of darker skin tones, they only could compare amongst other whites (such as English vs. Irish). You have this never ending need to be the supreme race, when in reality, you are accomplishing the opposite. African was rich in kings and gold and had a fully functioning society. Who destroyed that? YOU DID. You can’t accept anyone being better than you, and fight to be supreme. You have almost wiped out the Native Americans, the aborigines of Austrailia, and enslaved africans killing millions. As far as blaming whites for the bad that has occured, maybe if you’d admit to it, we’d stop blaming you. And no, we don’t need any sympathy for you or your race, but fessing up to your wrongdoings could suffice. It won’t change anything in our pass, but it will help whites look towards a better future, maybe erasing the supremist mindsets that lurks in the corner of most whites minds.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:15 am
On this website I am at, I need to know the name of the ship that Rasta Livewire used.
March 14th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Good format, but the piece seems driven more as an attempt to convince the world of accomplishment or achievement of the african race as we know it today simply by the fact they are an older race, and were “there first”. It’s a sweet story, but pales in comparison to the stories of the peoples of Europe and Asia who made their marks at later times in history, dwarfed by none since. Good read though. Keep strechin!
April 21st, 2007 at 4:56 pm
The thing that sparked me most about this article was the fact that the Africans were the last to be enslaved. That information in addition to learning that Africans were in Europe first, are two things I had no idea about.
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:29 pm
It seems like there is plenty of evidence to prove that Africans originally settled Europe. I thought it made perfect sense that they would just walk over to Spain. Researchers are wasting their time trying to prove that something else occurred. It is sad that they are missing out on studying the actual history of Europe.
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I felt as if this article was almost a repition of all the other articles we’ve read. I think it is interesting that Africa has such a complex history but there is only some much one can learn before getting bored.
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:36 pm
articles like these help understanding african history more and more allowing it to be more interesting
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Similarly to the other articles that we have been reading, this is just more proof that Africans should be recognized more because they are the orginator of human existence. Every person descended from Africa but no one acknowledeges it. Reading these articles are interesting because it contrary to popular belief
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
“The so called Grimaldi, a nation of Black Africans were the first modern human nation to arrive in Europe. Their significance has always been clouded by the funny nomenclatures used to designate them i.e. Grimaldi, Neolithic men, etc.” - Although I’m not sure how accurate this information is, it amazes me how much history can be bended and manipulated to maintain the status quo of Western thought. Not just with African history but with the histories of many other nations as well.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Most of the articles we’ve read seems to state the same thing which is that Africans are the First group of people to originate in these countries. If this is true, why are Africans the victims of colonization? I did a research in high school and i remember reading about how slavery started. It was said that the reason slavery occured in Africa was due to the fact that Africans were already buying and selling one another for money and resources, therefore the colonizing state explioted this situation.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
I think it is interesting to know that Africans had actually settled in Europe before the “Europeans.” Being that we are taught a western system of education in schools, we would never learn this kind of information in a classroom.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:12 pm
very interesting article-and things I did not know about…makes you think about our history more
April 24th, 2007 at 4:26 am
Once again, we are being revealed information about Africans that has been kept very hush. It may be hard for many people to admit that Africans were the first Europeans, but this is important to know. Our perceptions have been distorted for took long and this article is a great step in realizing truths of the past that we have not given thought to.
April 24th, 2007 at 6:09 am
Where has all this been hidden? Why don’t we learn African history in the sense that they discovered Europe?
April 26th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Black is beautiful and ignorance is bliss. So rejoice in these sayings for they describe you.
Whether the first modern humans to populate the Earth were black is important (historically), but what is even more so is what their descendants have accomplished and what they might still accomplish.
We all descended from ape-like creatures. We all descended, if we go further back in time, from single-cell organisms. These are facts. So, does that mean that single-cell organisms which have spread to all regions of the Earth are greater than their descendants, humans for one? I think few would agree with this. And if you do subscribe to this, then you should show more modesty and respect when you consider single cell organisms like cholera, typhoid, etc. The truth is that what matters is not the “glory” times of past , real or imagined, as much as we would like not to think otherwise, but the present and the future.
Human beings exists today in a number of colors. Blacks of post-global migration that have adapted to their new environments, through no intrinsic fault of their own, and those of pre-global migration blacks that predominantly still reside in Africa are different not only in color. They are different not only in form either. They are most importantly different in kind of mind they possess. Arguably, the blacks the left our Mother country, Africa, were the explorers, the discoverers, the creative, the brave, and the wise. What was left behind was quite the opposite. One can even call it the world’s first great “brain drain”.
P.S. I strongly recommend that ALL of you see the movie, “Blood Diamonds”(2006). In it you might possibly come to realization that there just might be something fundamentally wrong with all those blacks who never explored beyond the next hill to find undiscovered worlds like those who left Africa did before them. In such an act they were eventually transformed into a higher state of existence. All humans alive today came from Africa. Africa belongs to all of us (Asians, Blacks, whites). And we will come back to claim all that is rightfully ours! Africa our ancestral homeland.
April 26th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
This is really interesting because day by day reading these articles you understand more and more how races intermesh with each other and why some people look similar to others as far as features, or skin tone. Its funny because a lot of people who are considered to be spanish have a thing against blakc people like others and in some way we are all united. The ironic part is we are have no unity between cultures or different races.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:05 am
I am very young at age and I have been studying the hidden history of african people for years. My father was the one who educated me in my history, not teachers. Most teachers still use ignorant words such as “Moslims” or “Indians”. Everyone who is interested in this article or the hidden history of the world then I suggest a book called “Black Spark, White Fire”.
August 20th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
i think everyone here forgets something.Rastafari is a RELIGION.You can’t tell creationist that we are apes, you can’t tell rastafari they are not the original ppl.Like jew think they are god’s chosen ppl.Let ppl belive in what they want.Freedom of religion.I hope not to live the day to see something like that in schools in my country.We have enough creationist bullshit already.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:32 am
CRACKS and HONKYS have nevered descovered anything less their own lands it is Absurd to think otherwise the Cracka has never built any advanced civilizations own his own has never form a government own his own and has never been able to live in peace even still today, but it’s no wonder, White people were not given such high praise. The ancient people of Greece and Rome believed that the pale skinned people to their north, with their long and yellow, brown, and red hair, were immoral and inferior savages, The Greek geographer, Strabo, writing about the 7th century Celts, commented: “Concerning this island, I have nothing further to tell…except that its inhabitants are more savage than the Britons, since they are man-eaters…they count it an honorable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them, and openly to have intercourse with their mothers and sisters Europe’s first written stories highlight the Ethiopian’s (Greek and Roman name for all black people) morality and noble character. In the Iliad, Homer–explaining why the Olympian Gods loved the Ethiopians more than any other people and visited them for an annual twelve day feast–described blacks as, “Blameless Ethiopians.”3 Homer also wrote: For Zeus had yesterday to Ocean’s bounds
Set forth to feast with Ethiopia’s faultless men,And he was followed there by all the godsas for MOROCCO the name itself plainly describes the peoples that inhabit it “MOORS†But just who were the Moors anyway? Indeed, as early as the Middle Ages and as late as the seventeenth century, “The Moors were,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “commonly supposed to be mostly black or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for negro.” Dr. Chancellor Williams stated that “The original Moors, like the original Egyptians, were Black Africans.” To the Christians of early Europe there was no question regarding the ethnicity of the Moors and numerous sources support the view that, at the very least, a significant portion of the Moors were black-skinned people. Not the ones there today. ïŠ
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:07 am
OMG!!!
October 15th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Wat on earth all these people are soo hateful that’s prolly half the reason this piece was wrote i mena we weren’t derived from apes. I don’t believe in that but i do believe over time our skin tones did evovle over time according to the atmosphere we lived in. But wat i don’t understand is why all these people care soo much about who was first and who derived from who it’s not like u can do anything about it now so why get on here and be all racist and trash talk other skin tones i mean oh my goodness it’s just a colo. I mean if u went 2 a store and a cashier was very polite to u adn just so kind and u were wearing a green shirt but the next day u go in and have on a blue shirt and b/c u have a blue shirt on the cashier treats u like crap she is rude and drops some of ur purchases is that not stupid. That is just stupid right well it’s the same thing with skin-tones treating someone bad or being mad b/c their skin was the first to derive is just as stupid. so don’t be so racist.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
FEB 1, 08 I HAD THIS THOUGHT , WHICH BROUGHT ME TO THIS SEARCH,
( BLUE EYED BLONDE WITH STRAIGHT HAIR, CAUCASIAN ,) BLACK STRAIGHT HAIR ORENTIAL,
( BLACK NON STRAIGH HAIR NEGROID )
March 11th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
very interesting information,It makes alot of sense,I have been doing alot of research and it makes sense,oneday the schools will have to acknowledge this fact and restrain from ignorant denial..It is all of our past..amen
March 14th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I don’t know how many Asians wants to be called black people for the ignorance of not admiting they are the descendants of Africa. But, the truth remains Africa is the countinent and we all can say no! we are only lying under our teeth. There s nothing wrong with Africa if nopt those who plarized it we cant afford to be lying one man, one nation and. And Amen! God.
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Different races is a myth just as flying dragons and mermaids etc.persons who have lived in regions of the earth have adapted over thousands of years and different regions produced different results.persons in extreme hot desert climate tend to have dark/black skin which is due to the accumulation of melanin to protect the dermis from being being damaged and black Africans adapted to the heat of the sun and over time the hair tightly curled to protect the scalp from the scorching dust and heat .on the other hand people living in cold climate over the years and did not need the melanin and thus the pale skin is exposed so are least protected from the suns rays everyone needs to know that no matter how dark u are beneath the surface skin dermis there is white skin.example if a dark person gets leprosy it eats away the skin and the leprosy exposes the white skin or u could notice a persons lighter skin when they bleach or example Micheal jackson melanin removal he did not paint his self white but just had to remove his outer dark skin layer to expose his lighter skin tone. but due to ignorance throughout history many people have suffered due to their petty differences and are still.jesus christ did not say he was going to die for one spacific people only but he died for all to save all not excluding no set of people.u can say dark people are superior for hot regions and whiter persons are superior cold persons thats the only superiority other than white people have created superior weapons that can eliminate mankind and due to white people proclaiming themselves superior they did not envision the long term consequences.people will tend to want to be like them to get some of their proclaimed superiority and this ha sled to intermarriages ,low birth rates due to ther high position and long hours working and in order for them to stay rich they can only make a low number of children 1.5 average for urban whites which projects that in about the next century duE to immigration ,intermarriage ,low birth rates ,homo sexual practices etc will tremendously decline the white population especially in europe by about 3/4. so the past does not matter about who were the original watch at the inhabitants of egypt mostly Arabs which conquered ancient Egypt and the modern day Egyptians are really foreign invaders and most likely that too will happen with Europe but white people are desperate to keep their land example Russia is paying people to make children how desperate can they get ,what next try human cloning?
August 27th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Most of the contributors to this blog seem to be really misinformed − deluded too − in the case of the Afrocentric ramblers. The Moors were not black people, that’s because they are the ancestors of modern Moroccans – who sure aint black (I am Moroccan so I know this to be true). Yes we did conquer Spain! Yes the Spaniards were primitive Europeans − barley human at the time – in synergy with the rest of Europe. I guess you could say we jump started your car. There is no Spanish intellectual with a reputation to protect who would not concur.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:57 am
No Mr. A-Rabber, you are what you are…a Turkish/Arabo thieving liar who immigrated to Africa with the Banu Hassaniya tribe. You are another lieing pretender wannabe Moor. The Moors were Africans! Go ask the Spaniards why their flag features a Moorish African and not a Moorish Turkish/Arabo wannabe.