A Review of the African Civilization

The Origin

The Earth! Doesn't it amaze you how beautiful it is and how natural and splendid it poses on the solar system? 

The only planet known to have accommodated man (the most intelligent being ever to exist, and don't miss quote me when I say 'intelligent'; what I refer to are all the senses man has and moral values that supersede that of other animals) in the past, present, and will do so in the future. 

Evidence of Ancient Civilization 

Man has proved to have more intelligence and knowledge way beyond imagination. Therefore, without any tangible evidence, I can bluntly say that the human being is nothing but the most superior creature to have ever existed as far as I am concerned. 

When I talk of the earth, I mean people (human beings), animals, and nature (ether, environment with plants and physical features like mountains, valleys, swamps, lakes, seas and oceans, caves, deserts, cliffs, lagoons). 

These are what make up the earth. The earth provides for them, sustains them, and the cycle continues. From this case, the world is a self-sustaining natural unit. A supernatural force that we may not make out clearly. 

There in between, man lives every day, not worrying or knowing anything about it because Mother Earth has it all taken care of.

North and Eastern Africa

Evidence of Ancient Civilization 

In studying ancient civilization trends that have shaped contemporary society, two facts become clear. 

First, according to their culture and tradition, people can choose to live in peace or war with each other. 

Second, it is doubtless that the Back people were the first inhabitants of the Middle East (Mesopotamia and Babylon, present-day Iraq) and North and Eastern Africa region (present-day Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Carthage(Tunisia), Morocco,  and Ethiopia). 

Scholars like Rudolph Windsor also illustrate with sound pieces of evidence that it is from the North and Eastern Africa, and Middle East regions that the other continents were populated from and civilized.

The dynamic and radical changes in culture and tradition occurred over thousands of years fueled by internal strife, invasions, and famine and disease outbreaks. 

As for the North Eastern regions of Africa, civilization was no more different. Historical records also record that this civilization was practiced and preserved in the hinterland of 

Africa, also known as Alkebulan or the land of the Kemites. 

Since time immemorial, the Kemites (a name used to refer to black people) were already advanced in terms of civilization.

They built the pyramids, the sphynx, obelisks, war chariots and ships, tombs, libraries, etc. across Africa. 

In Ancient Egypt they were educating themselves through the Egyptian Mystery System, ruling themselves and formulating for themselves laws of the land. 

They were defending themselves and securing a future for themselves and the generations to come.

North Eastern Africa, from which the world draws its great lineage in terms of laws and social thoughts, was already in commerce with the Greeks, Arabs, Persians, Hyksos (rulers of foreign lands), and other African and European Empires. 

From south of the great river Nile and western Sudan (present-day West Africa,) came gold, copper, ivory, and lots of other minerals that rested upon the African crustal rocks. 

They were traded through the Saharan trade route up to the Mediterranean Sea routes. This trade still takes place and is here to stay.

Black North African people created the greatest of all civilizations the world has ever witnessed. In the hinterland, the kingdom of Kush, Kuba, Mosi, Ndong'o, the land of Punt, the kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire of Mansa Musa, the Ashanti kingdom, the Songhai Empire, the Buganda Kingdom, the Shona Kingdom, the Great Zimbabwe, the Kemetic civilization and many other African empires stood out as the world's most desired civilizations.

Notably, a highly advanced culture of civilization existed along the valleys of great rivers like the Nile, Limpopo, Niger, and the Zambezi. 

Up North along the Nile, almost at its mouth into the sea, there existed Upper Egypt from where civilization was at its peak even before contact with the outside world. Civilization is the dire need for man to live an almost perfect and complete life.

Early natives and builders of North Africa, who were all dark and brown-skinned (Africans), built the greatest civilizations of all time. 

Evident in the pyramids of Giza. The great temple of Abydos, the Sphinx, and the Valley of Kings, among many other great scientific, mathematical, and architectural works along the Nile valley, were evidence of black civilization.

Slavery existed, in most cases (predominantly for prisoners of war). Since the civilization was so great, some scholars have claimed slavery was part of the success. However, forced labor could not just work because African political, economic, and social laws were based on socialism to a great extent. 

And to examine and comprehend the level of architectural knowledge that went into the building of the pyramids, if it was slave labor then it must have come with some handsome compensation. 

Those might have been professionals in their expertise. It must have been fair labor with fair rewards; after all, the end justified the means.

Societies could stay calm for centuries, and the people prevailed until wartime. The Nile River, one of the essentials of the North African Civilization, was regarded as a blessing from the gods of nature to the people and animals. 

The river was used as a means of transport for it was partly navigable. It was referred to as the “darkness in daylight” and the “giver of life” by the Kemites.

Africans preserved their culture and traditions quite well. It seems that they did realize its importance to future generations. They curved images and wrote on stones and rocks, hieroglyphics that were considered the fingerprints of the gods. 

They were kept far beyond ordinary reach. They had great monuments that signified how powerful the kings and queens were.

Early North Africans had well-organized kingdoms ruled by great Pharaoh Lineages. The Pharaoh would protect the city and preserve its culture and traditions. 

Whenever the Pharaoh passed on, his body was mummified and placed to rest. The mummification of the bodies was made easier by the desert heat whereby bodies could be preserved for thousands of years.

But why then would people preserve bodies? Maybe it's because; people loved their Pharaoh so much that they thought preserving his body would make his spirit continually live and rule endlessly, most importantly it was a cultural practice. 

It is also logical to say that the people thought that the Pharaoh would still rule the land from the ancestral realm.

Early Africans had a well-organized pantheon. They believed in gods and supernatural powers that together gifted Mother Nature. 

The gods of the land, the sea, the sky, and the god of the sun brought forth light and energy on all creatures. 

The ancestors, in their thoughts and wisdom, saw it as wise to give thanks; and pay homage and reverence to their fallen kings by offering sacrifices to the specific gods, appeasing them for the earth to continue sustaining their people, and animals for more years. 

The gods did hold to their ends of the deal; the earth has always sustained all of the African offspring.

Civilization in the Entire Continent

Each African empire had its way of ruling, its way of paying homage to the gods and the ancestors, and above all, the people's interests were well taken care of. The empires safely preserved their ceremonial tools. All artifacts had their identity. 

In Egypt, the Pharaoh was the leader executing the people's will. The king or emperor is led by the people’s interests. In this way, leaders were referred to as the people's shepherds. 

This servant leadership cut across all African setups. Chiefs, medicine men, kings, and emperors would lead their people into battle whenever reason supported it.

The King or chief like the Pharaoh would lead, fight for, and protect his people. They were a symbol of “might.” That is why upon death, their bodies were preserved In Egypt, as I had mentioned earlier. 

Their bodies were buried where the god of the dead (Osiris) protected them. Osiris is the lord everlastingness, God of eternity. The god (Osiris) was a symbol that in death the king would still rule and protect the land. 

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African scholars also prove that this belief was similar across the continent even though their names and practices could differ in various ways.

Osiris was a symbol of resurrection too, not physically coming back to life, but enjoining in the spiritual world of ancestors, a world of spirits only that this time the spirits roamed the land, protected it, and kept it in order. 

To grasp the depth of African civilization, I would urge every African to read and study the BOOK OF COMING FORTH BY DAY, also called the Egyptian Book of the Dead, From Babylon to Timbuktu by Ruldoph Windsor, The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams. 

Please also take some time to explore scholars like Dr. Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, James Baldwin (long live their names), Maponga Joshua, Dr. Umar Johnson, etc.

This may be just but a few of the many kingdoms in Africa that had developed into such a high-grade civilization. The African story is broad and cannot be exhaustively written in papers even if the papers would have existed by then. 

Africa's Traditional Music System

That is why our forefathers thought it would be wise to curve it in stones and rocks. To store it in artifacts. The ones we find today all over historical sites like Kariandusi and Koobi Fora in Kenya, Abu Mena and the historic Cairo Museum in Egypt, Aksum City Ruins of Ethiopia, Kondoa Iringa Rock Paintings in Tanzania, Changoni Rock Art in Malawi, Tsodilo Hills in Botswana, Gebel Barkal, Napata and Meroe in Sudan, including many other countless historical sites all over Africa.

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