Afristorical Quotes
Professor Leo Frobenius Quoted in “The Voice of Africa”, UK, Hutchinson & Co., 1913
Let there be light in Africa. In that portion of the globe to which the stalwart Anglo-Saxon Stanley gave the name “dark” and “darkest”. Light upon the people of that continent whose children we [i.e. Europeans] are accustomed to regard as types of natural servility with no recorded history. (But) the spell has been broken! The buried treasures of antiquity again revisit the sun
W.E.B. DuBois, The World and Africa, US, International Publishers, 1965, pp. 162-3
Of all this West African cultural development our knowledge is fragmentary and incomplete, jumbled up with the African slave trade… Nearly all has disappeared in the frantic effect to paint Negroes as apes fit only for slavery and then to forget the whole discreditable episode, wipe it out of history, and emphasise the glory and philanthropy of Europe… Yet on the West Coast was perhaps the greatest attempt in human history before the twentieth century to build a culture based on peace and beauty, to establish a communism of industry and of distribution of goods and services according to human need. It was crucified by greed, and its very memory blasphemed by the modern historical method. There can be no doubt but that the level of culture among the masses of Negroes in West Africa in the fifteenth century was higher than that of northern Europe, by any standard of measurement – homes, clothes, artistic creation and appreciation, political organisation and religious consistency.”
Professor Cheikh Anta Diop, 29 December 1923 - 7 February 1986
"Man must create to survive. To create he must ensure his survival. Collective historical consciousness is one of man's chief means of survival and a source of creation. Destroy or stifle it and the chances for the survival of a people become questionable."
