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False and negative views of Africa and Africans were used to justify
the Transatlantic Slave Trade and colonisation. However, in reality,
the Ancient civilisations of Egypt, Ghana and Mali among others –
some of which grew over 5000 years ago – made enormous discoveries
in science, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, and architecture
long before they were known in Europe. Africans had crossed oceans
by the time Europeans made their first journey to Africa and some
of the European visitors to Africa recognised that societies were
just as advanced or more so, than their own.
In truth, contributions from Africans and the African continent to
the shaping of the modern world are enormous and denied only because
of the development of Eurocentric and racist views.
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King of Congo receiving Dutch Ambassadors,
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