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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#7 (**permalink**))

This question presupposes that the mark of Africa's downfall was the historically recent European incursions into the Continent. It wasn't. For 1,000 years before the European trans-Atlantic slave trade, Arab-Islam inflicted far worse slave conditions and oppression onto Africa than Europeans. In fact, it is this reason we were too fragmented, too dispersed, too drained, too resourcefully weakened to defend ourselves against the all out affront by Europeans on the entire Continent of Africa.

It may sound depressing, but we might have a few sovereign nations today if not for European involvement. However, I'm afraid the overall disparaging picture would perhaps be very similar. The only difference being an Arab colonizer and oppressor instead of a European one. The European colonization actually squelched the Arab attempts to enveloping all of Africa (Islamic Chronicles). Yet, even still over half of all Continental Africans today fall under the rule of Islam due to its violent historical expansion across the Continent. If 500 years ago the Europeans didn't come, we might be in a similar disparaging situation all because we still did not understand the psychosis of White Supremacist mentality dominant in nearly all non-African cultures (including Islam).

This failure to understand is the reason why nearly all of our classical Black Civilizations, including Sumer, ancient China, ancient India (Indus-Kush), Mesopotamia, ancient Iran, Phoenicia/Canaan, ancient Egypt, ancient Nubia, Meroe/Kush, Kuba, Monomatapa, Ancient Zimbabwe, Yorubaland, Bornu, Ghana, Songhai, Mali, Azania, amongst others have disappeared!!!

Well, if there wasn't some other event sparking either a squelching of Arab-Islamic expansion/imperialism or unification of conscious Africans to operate with statehood (before its too late), then things would be very much the same (and in some ways worse) if the European had not colonized and enslaved Africa. Absent of this event, most of the African Continent would look like the ideological society of Indian Hindus with the lighter peoples on top with the "blacks" on the bottom and/or outcasts from civilized society.