Download The “Ten Commandments” of Africa

The “Ten Commandments”
of Africa
► Myth
One. Africa has no ancient cultures,
histories or civilizations and has therefore
made no meaningful contributions to world
history.
► Subsidiary to this, the values that
Westerners hold dear today like political
freedom and democracy had and have no
tradition or history in Africa
► Myth
Two. Africans are primarily tribes
people; Africans are organized first and
foremost into tribes while Europeans are
primarily organized into nations.
► Myth
Three. Africans are essentially
primitive in lifestyle, art and technology
because few or no innovations took or take
place in Africa.
► Myth
Four. Africans have no literary,
philosophical and historical traditions in
either the recent or the far past.
► Myth
Five. All Africans are black. To be
African is to be black. Africans are not
culturally diverse. Africans share an
essentially unified culture
► Myth
Six. Africa is one country and the
people there speak a language called
“African.”
► Myth
Seven. Africa is mostly jungle, with
some desert, and is highly overpopulated.
► Myth
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Eight. North Africa is not a part of
► Myth
Nine. Africans are not normal
people. There are two very different versions of
this fundamental myth. Form A: Everything
Africans do is worthless, a failure, and Africans can
essentially only do bad things; Africans have no
part in the history of civilization. Form B:
Everything Africans do is perfect, worthy,
harmonious, better than anything anybody else
can or did do
► Africans are the only or the primary origin
of all civilization, especially Western Civilization
and even the ancient Native American civilizations.
► Myth
Ten. African history is basically a
history of poverty, ignorance, slavery,
violence, failure—of negative things. It is
therefore both boring and depressing to
study