Thanks for a nice piece, Prince.

The arguments against Afro-Centrism which Mr Ceesay posited might as well be from some professor of history at Oxford who knows the 'cat is now out of the bag' and is doing everything in his/her power to prevent the truth being heard.  When in fact the history we learned in high school was Euro-Centric.

It is interesting to note that the truth has been deliberately removed from the history books and education curriculum in the West.  For example, I just learned about the role which black people played in annexing land from Mexico and subjugating the Indians in my part of the country.  In fact, there were black sherrifs, marshalls etc etc here till the late 1800s when the mood turned sour against blacks thanks partly to the famous ruling against Dred Scott.  For more info, read The Black West by William Loren Katz.

  Anyway, one cannot find these undeniable facts in any major high school or college curriculum around here.  This is just one of many instances where the truth has been subjugated.  Nevertheless, when we try to publicize the truth is condemned as misplaced Afro-Centrism?

In the words of another great reggae singer, Dennis Emmanuel Brown:

"What about the half that's never been told?"

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