BLACK GATHERING IN SENEGAL BY RUNOKO RASHIDI To the readers of Dalit Voice, it gives me great pleasure to announce a historic gathering of the Black people of the world in Dakar, Senegal in December 2010. This is part of the World Black Arts Festival to be held in the West African nation of Senegal this coming December. Our conference, one of seven to be convened at the gathering, will focus on the Ancient African Diaspora. And I am happy to announce that one of the major presenters is Dalit Voice Editor Mr. V.T. Rajshekar of Bangalore, India. For African people it is important to note that our history did not begin with invasion, defeat, colonization and enslavement. We have an ancient history, a great history. Modern humanity began in Africa. More than 100,000 years ago that humanity began to filter out of Africa. Asia was their first destination. These Africans did not arrive in Asia destitute and penniless. They came as the first people. They introduced human culture to Asia. Of the places in Asia these Blacks had their largest influence were Pakistan and India. They made up the tribal people of India, the first people of India. They help build the Indus Valley civilization, where people domesticated rice and invented the windmill and advanced agriculture, and had a peaceful civilization built on trade and commerce. This was before untouchability and the subjugation of our people. At the Senegal gathering will be representatives from other parts of the Ancient African Diaspora. There will be a representative from Aboriginal Australia and a representative of West Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. There will be presenters focusing on Blacks in early Europe and Africans in America before Columbus. Why is such a gathering important? We say that what you do for yourself depends on what you think of yourself, that that you think of yourself depends on what you kn ow of yourself, and what you know of yourself depends on what you have been told. At this conference we intend to let the Blacks speak for themselves. We want authentic voices to tell the story of our people. India is one on the most important parts of the Black World. It has a Black population of more than 300 million, including the Dalits and Tribals. V.T. Rajshekar is more than capable of telling their story. 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