Ancient rome Quote by Alija Izetbegović

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Long before the Europeans arrived in Africa, the blacks were enslaving each other. They still do,” said Valmorain. “Just as whites are enslaving each…

— Isabel Allende

“No matter what African people did, they were barbaric beasts or brutalized like beasts. If they did not clamor for freedom, then their obedience…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“After Egypt, Afrocentrists teach children about the glorious West African emperors, the vast lands they ruled, the civilization they achieved; not, however, about the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white;…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Colonialism oppressed and subverted Africans and remade them as scavengers, pleaders, and servants”

— Paul Theroux

“Europeans never had the remotest intention of raising Africans to the Western level, of sharing with them the instruments of physical, political or economic…

— James Baldwin

“The moment that the topic of the pre-European African past is raised, many individuals are concerned for various reasons to know about the existence…

— Walter Rodney

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and…

— Giles Foden

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad…

— Chinua Achebe

“precisely because Africans were fitter in tropical climates than Europeans, they ended up as the slaves of European masters!”

— Yuval Noah Harari