Analysis: Africa A History Denied

The knowledge that I obtained from the documentary “Africa a History Denied”, did not surprise me in any way. I learned in this documentary that white people dated long before slavery had manipulate and altered Africans history. The white people try to make it look as though they were the first to civilize Africa. The culture of Africa has even been said to not have existence. The left over ruins has not even been credit to the African. Ever since black people have been discovered on this earth which have been robbed of our potential and existence. In this paper I will discuss how Africans have been robbed of our existence from white people, cultural artifacts, and geography. I also will talk about how we been racially stereotyped and how we …show more content…
An explore must keep there mind open because they can not assume or it would alter the reality in which they are searching for. That extremely aggravates me to know that explore has stereotypical because it is their job to explore and find evidence for such a stereotype like that. It truly makes me think that if they did find prove that show that African had better intellect then what they are labbed, then they white explores would destroy the proof. Later in the documentary it states “ maybe in the future there will be African history, but at the moment there is none. There is only the history of europeans in Africa and the rest is darkness”.(1:35) This quote spoke to me because it shows that if the discuss is not about the white population history, then it is there is nothing to talk about. I like how the speaker used “the rest is darkness” symbolize that anyone else history in Africa is darkness meaning its not sought out or it 's unclear. The show that no other culture had significance when it was juxtaposed against the europeans culture. African history was not documented on paper for it was passed down …show more content…
There are artifacts such as the gold rhinoceros and scepter found on mapungubwe. There was also an artifact of radiocarbon found by the dutch. That piece of Cardon help date the Mapungubwe. The great kings and queen was buried near the South African border lied a kingdom . Each king and queen was buried on the summit of a cliff. Each body the was buried on that cliff was buried with great treasures before their Royal graves was sealed. Meaning when the white explorers are found the tombs and the gold piece. They belonged that to the black Africans. That means that black people rule the kingdoms of Africa before these white Africans got