"What is religion but the deification of ancestors, the making sacred of traditions within the context and history. How can we honor any god who was used against us? The only people who accept alien gods are defeated people; all others honor and accept their own name for the Almighty. We must learn to appreciate ourselves and our traditions. What is wrong with the African God?
What would we think of a Yoruba who accepted Chinese ancestors as his own? We would find it quite interesting and wonder how it came to be. But what of Africans' acceptance of others' gods? Is there no tradition with these alien gods? Of course there is tradition with these gods! To accept the Jews' god or the Arabs' god or the Hindu's god and so forth is to valorize those histories above your own. Indeed, it is to honor the names in those myths and stories higher than your own stories, it is to love the language, the places in their stories above your own. Why is Mecca, Rome, or Jerusalem more sacred that Bosumtwi? Quite simply, it is imperialism, not by force of arms, but by force of religion which sometimes comes armed."- Dr. Molefi Asante


"The slave trade: consequence of the explorations. European or Arabic, the slave trade always had a destructive effect on the African society.....the principal sources of slaves for markets in Arabia, the Middle East, and the New World. The trade had devastating effects"

"...the arab general Amr-ibn-al-As entered Alexandria (In Egypt) in 642 A.D. with four thousand men. The conquest of (Black) Egypt by the Muslim armies was not only to change the character of Egyptian Civilization radically, but it was to have disasterous impact on the dignity and destiny of Africans as a people. The Arab conquest had opend the floodgates wider and Arabs poured in. Colonization and Islamization progressed. As Egypt became a main center for Arab power, this fact found contrete expression in Arab-Islamic expansion over North Africa, into Spain, and southward in what remained as "The Land of the Blacks.".."with eventual conquest of the Sudan through mosques and traders."
Destruction of Black Civilizations, Chancellor Williams


***Words of Wisdom***

"If it's not about NATIONBUILDING, it's not about ANYTHING."- Dr. John Henrik Clarke

"We are not the victims! We are just fighting forces that we cannot see!"-2001 Sankofa Conference

"You don't have the RIGHT to have free time from your children."-Kwame Agyei Akoto

"It is the worst feeling to hear the call of the drum and not be able to respond."-Solarus

On understanding Afrakan thought:
"it's like explaining astrophysics to a whino, the explanation can't be done like that. when people try to simplify it, they ask the other person to tailor the answers their cultural context. and trying to cater afrikan ideals to european understanding is a REAL sin."-utamaroho