I know it's maybe overstated but it's true that we do come from Kings and

Queens we come from a great place we have a great lineage and we have to live up to

that our story began millions of years ago in the motherland,

the cradle of all civilization,

the richest place on earth.

I'm talking of course about The richest place on earth.

I'm talking of course about Africa.

European culture plundered Africa,

and the rewriting of African history

has been an attempt to justify the pillage and

absolve their guilt. After centuries of extractive colonial rule, the project

has been to portray the entire African continent as poverty-stricken, diseased, and incapable of

self-rule.

I don't know about you, but I've had it with the way Black History is taught. It's like there's slavery, then there's a civil rights era and then Obama and that's it.

But a wise man told me that if we start our history with slavery, the best we can aspire to be is better slaves,

but our roots are much deeper than that.

I'm Jay from Push Black, and today we're going to bring real knowledge with Dr. Renoku Rashidi.

Dr. Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with the major focus on what he calls the global

African presence, that is Africans outside of Africa, before and after

enslavement.

He's taken us back, I mean way back, to a time long before colonization, before white hands exploited the land and its people.

Get ready and hang on.

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