I apologise for the lateness of my input...
Let us just put it down to a time management issue.
Destruction of Black Civilisation: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC - 2000 AD by Chancellor Williams I personally feel was an excellent book. It was also a very sad indictment of not only how far we have fallen...but also how sometimes we have been architects of our own downfall. Either due to disunity; inter tribal wars(which was a lesson which touched close to home for me...in light of current online debates or arguments between a number of brothers who Irespect....you know who you are 
)... our lack of suspicion of White people (something which was a particulary important lesson to me as I am someone who often advocates tolerance, and reading this book has given me a chance to reconsiderhow trusting I am of some white people)....
Even worse, is that this is the first time I feel that a book has come close to describing the truth about who we are and our identity as a world power and a people...and how it hasbeen completely whitewashed by society as a whole...and the deliberate confusion of the history of Egypt was another issue that irked me...any one who has been arguing on the recent thread 'Why don't Eygptians call themselves Black?' would be well advised to read this book...due to the plethora of information that explains how the racial dynamic and social fabric of this one time African Kingdom...was destroyed by the influx of invaders...
It is amazing on a level how we are selectively fed a daily mix of nonsense to keep us in a state where it is hard to sustain our true legacy as innovators and leaders of culture...an issue that was driven home where in an effort to highlight the plight of 1,000,000,000 children who live in poverty according to unicef...they decided to show Africa...as though poverty is something that afflicts our nation only...which is cheeky considering that if the £55 million a day that we pay in debt repayments was re routed and used for irrigation and agricultural projects that many of the problems that exist in present day Africa could be irradicated...who are only in that mess due to the IMF and the Western leaders holding Black people to financial ransomconfused3We are not financially poor we are just to busy making the west rich...
Or in addition carved up and added into the annals of others peoples history...for example I used to love reading up on Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology when I was young The Fabled Thebes of the Greek Mythology...would never seem as though it was in Africa...in the same way that Egypt inthe current way that it is described in the educational system you would be hard pressed to believe that it was part of Africa...(which is why I am going to be watching the programs on Egyptian Antropology in more depth to see how much they are ignoring in terms of the Black contribution to civilisation)... (I cannot point to a particular page but this theme runs through out the book but the first 4 chapters explore this Blackout in great depth)...
On a more controversial note...I was happy to see that the spirituality of African people and that we had our own monotheism, including chief God and saints...before 'the cult of Christianity' or 'the cult of Islam'...we were not murderous savages in need of a white God to save us...we had our own distinctly African Spirituality in place...and those of you who do go to church...you are free to believe in what you want...however, you would do well to read this book to understand the role that the church had in destroying Africa to a degree...understanding the history of Theology has to be paramount...so I hope those of you who are of other denominations take the time to read this book(pages 135 onward)
The ecology aspect of what happened to our race is important...and gives some valid reasons for why we need to really get up there scientifically and get on top of our game in terms of preserving our enviroment...is the story of the Sahara...a once lush land which was excellent for agricultural endeavours...(Saharan Tragedy page 183)...I wish that Western countries and coporate big business would invest more time in trying to protect our planet rather that plundering it...As in their haste to make money...we are destroying our ecosystem...and the tragedy of the Sahara could be something that happens on a global scale...we should protect the natural assets that we have around us a little more...
A retrospective point that I wish the continent had undertaken was to protect our Coastal borders more...if we had a great wall of Africa, as they had a great wall of China maybe we could have controlled the influx of immigration and protected our assets...it is a shame that strategically we made so many mistakes...hindsight in the case of this book is painfully depressing...
The key element that did uplift me to a slight degree is the fact that it mentions starting pan African organisations...if you are not a member of such a group please make the effort to join up...because if we unify in the way that our ancestors were not able to in the past...we made be able to affect a positive vision for the future...A victory greater than Menes recapturing lowerEgypt (page 39)
So sisters and brothers (in particular sister's) please enrich your minds politically and historically...as in order to reclaim our greatness we must learn from both the triumph and the defeats of our ancestors...this book had moved me to be more political..I know I gained a lot from reading this book...
I just hope that you did too...