Discovery in Sahara demands respect

Black Buzz News Service
The Ronald B. Saunders, Archives
This part of the Ronald B. Saunders Project
Athens, Ohio
February 10, 2010

The article by James E. Alsbrook, Ph.D., president emeritus at Ohio University titled "Discovery in Sahara demands respect" appeared in the New Pittsburgh Courier on Feb.1, 1994.

Discovery in Sahara demands respect

Would you believe that Black African, camel-riding nomads in the Sahara Desert participated in or directed the building of an astronomical observatory and monument 7,000 years ago.
Leading anthropologists and astrophysicists say the recently discovered construction is a layout of stones similar to, but 2,000 years older than, England's admired Stonehenge that is frequently listed among the wonders of the ancient world.
This new discovery is much larger and more complicated than England's 5,000 year-old Stonehenge.
The site is reported to be in "Southern Egypt," but is near the borders of Chad, Lybia and Sudan, all being on a trade route between Timbuktu, an ancient city located near the Niger River in Mali of West Central Africa, and leading to various points along a route going east across the continent for hundreds of miles and ending in East Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
This discovery is important because it associates Black Africans with highly complicated functions of the solar system and destroys the myth that Black Africans were mentally delinquent and incapable of that intellectual development required for the creation of a separate, independent scientific thought and civilization.
This discovery also reminds us that the following points explain the situation of Black people in the world order of today:
1. Just as all living things like trees, flowers and even mountains emerge,develop, mature and bloom at different times and in their own cycles and seasons, so do races of people and nations sprout, grow, mature and bloom at different times and during different cycles,
2. The"early bloomers" sprouted, grew, flowered and then surrendered their primacy to later-developing cultures and civilizations.
3. These early bloomers include the Egyptians (Nile Valley in Africa); a dozen or so civilizations in the Middle East near or around the Tigris Euphrates River, (Asia); people living in the Indus River Valley of Pakistan (Asia); those in the Yellow River Valley (China); the Aztecs and the Mayans of Mexico, (North America) and the Incans (Peru, South America).
Records do not show an independent creation or evolution of civilization either in white Europe or in Black sub-Sahara Africa.
4. Only in Egyptian Africa, Asia and the Americas do records show that civilization erupted independently. Europe received its civilization from the Middle East and Africa (Egypt) by way of Greece and then Rome. After the Renaissance, leadership was passed among Italy, France, Spain and England, with Germany and other European areas following. America leads now, and Japan or China is next in line.
5. Just as a Roman leader was wrong 2,000 years ago when he said the English were not worth civilizing, likewise wrong today are the Europeans who declared that Africans (whom they raped and exploited) were"the white man's burden," incapable of self rule.
Today's leading scientists using mitochondrial DNA taken from worldwide samples write that all people on earth have one common ancestor, a Black female called "Mother Eve." She lived about 200,000 years ago in the Olduvai Gorge in Southeast Africa. Her descendants migrated to various continents over thousands of years and developed varying skin colors, hair textures and other features while their bodies adapted to various local climates and local problem-solving practices.
History and nature tell us that Black people will bloom and enjoy their day in the sun during a natural, emerging spiral of world events characterized by unanticipated problems, favorable situations and other inevitable developments-some immediate and perceptible, others slow and obscure-that cannot be anticipated.
(James E. Alsbrook, Ph.D., is president emeritus at Ohio University.)