RUNOKO RASHIDI ON AFROCENTRICITY, AFRICAN PRESENCE IN EARLY EUROPE AND ASIA, AND HISTORICALLY TOURING THE AFRICAN PLANET (MFG 052)
Even today, Hollywood’s Pink-Washing produces Whitesupremacist revisionism of African civilisations through work such as The Gods of Egypt, Exodus: Gods and Kings , and the HBO series Rome whose second season visits Greek-occupied Egypt. LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Fortunately, numerous scholars and activists have dedicated their lives to erasing such lies and restoring the truth about the Africanity of world-shaping ancient civilisations such as Ancient Egypt. One such scholar-activist is Runoko Rashidi , an historian and world traveler who for decades has investigated the ancient migrations of Africans out of the mother continent and across the world. His work highlights the civilisations they founded and the titans they produced, especially in early Asia and Europe . He’s lectured in over 50 countries, and his articles have appeared in more than 75 publications. Rashidi is the author of the books Introduction to the Study of African Classical Civ...