Reflections Kemet

                                                                                                                  Dr. Tdka Kilimanjaro In this 1001 page tour de force , Dr. Kilimanjaro and his collaborators [1] have taken up the supreme challenge laid out by Dr. Cheik Anta Diop in the 1970s. Diop and his colleague Professor Theophile Obenga, had in a UNESCO conference in 1974, provided compelling evidence on ancient Kemet (Egypt) as a black African civilization. Dr. Diop’s admonished African students and scholars worldwide, to study and research Kemet to redress the racist distortions purveyed by mainstream Egyptology, the education curricula, and the media. Importantly, Diop’s vision advocated for the e...

  Ayi Kwei Armah Note that Two thousand seasons (the novel), was first published by East African Publishing House in 1973.   Introduction “Two thousand seasons” (the novel) is a 206-page historical novel ( “remembrance”).     It is a book dense in ideas that remain compelling to date. The novel is at once a deep meditation on the undoing of the black people and their necessary resurgence. It is virtually a manifesto outlining ideals lost or distorted, which remain the path to a renaissance.   The novel is a meticulous work of art. The diction, although rendered in English, is unmistakably African in its rhythm, and is exquisitely rendered.   As a simultaneously edifying, pleasurable and a galling read, it is also a call to action. This then, is a demonstration of Ayi Kwei Armah’s consummate skill and erudition. In the review, we delve into the themes of this profound gift to the black people and humanity in general. We chose not to dwell on other ...