The History of Black Peoples

[thorbiorn]

One question to keep in mind when reading the following post is this: Will the outcome of the activity of Black Africans in the coming years provide primarily food for the moon or food for the soul? If, as Cassiopaea suggested, "it will depend on how much awareness you manage to generate to direct the energy", how do you propose to do this?

Above I was suggesting advertising SOTT, but will that do it? Even if one out of a 100 will click? Or if 1 out of a 1000 will read a bit more? Then will that do it? I think one can advertise, but basically it is up to the individual how much they would like to educate themselves. How much they would like to network and share with others.

Thorbiorn

 

[thorbiorn]

Credo Mutwa was metioned in one of the posts/ excerpts from the Cassiopaean Transcripts.
On The Wikipedia site linked to above, they mention other websites like:
http://www.credomutwa.com/
http://www.sabon.org/credo/index2.html
http://literature.kzn.org.za/lit/18.xml

This post was inspired by a visit to a bookshop, where I saw two books by him that are quite interesting:
1. Indaba My Children: African Folktales (Paperback)
by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (Compiler) first published in 1964

2. Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries (Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu,) (Paperback)
by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (Author), Luisah Teish (Foreword), Stephen Larsen (Editor)

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[thorbiorn]

From Black Africans I have heard, that considering one can not recall any Black Africans that received a noble price in science, then it follows that others are better gifted.

As the numbers of the national IQs may indicate one can find some excuse for what they are saying. But it does not mean that there is no black people to be found in science:
http://www.internetmathedu.html :

Science and Technology Sources on the Internet

Mathematics Education Resources on the Internet
Mary DeCarlo
Mathematics Librarian
Syracuse University Mathematics Library
[…]

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (MAD)
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora profiles Black mathematicians and scientists, including a history and biographies of Blacks in mathematics, and a separate section of Black women in mathematics. Other sections include information on Blacks in computer science, physics and astronomy. Links to current job openings and professional societies are also presented. This is an interesting site that includes information not easily found elsewhere.

The "Mathematicians of the African Diaspora" site writes about themselves:

In Mathematics, more than any other field of study, have we heard proclamations and statements similar to, "The Negro is incapable of succeeding." Ancient and present achievements contradict such statements. One of the purposes of this website is to exhibit the inaccuracy of those proclamations by exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences.

A more personal observation or at least not a clean cut&paste: Once in the early nineties a magazine (Times or Newsweek probably) carried a story that included an about 30 year old Black American with a Ph.D. in Mathematics, who since he could not find a job as a mathematician had joined up with a few other unemployed educated pals. Together they had specialised in washing windows of very tall buildings from the outside. For comparison among the people that have been coming over the years to help teach mathematics in for instance Mozambique, I heard about the Russians, a little about the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Cubans and so on, but about Blacks brought up and educated in America or Europe?!? The Diaspora remained in the diaspora.

thorbiorn

Edit 20080719:
More recent thread that discusses the situation in Africa: http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=8351
referred to by Anart in http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=9230.msg66148#msg66148