The Birth & Creation of African Americans

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” – Poet James Baldwin

Image courtesy of My Kemetic Dreams

What happened to the people now known as African Americans is different to what happened to other groups of American people. The “Americanization,” which is the process of people becoming American by absorbing and adopting American culture, and American culture is fundamentally Anglo-Saxon culture, which is German in origin and is anti-African or anti-Black traditionally. Every group that came to the U.S. must become a part of the American or Anglo-Saxon political, religious, philosophical, and social ideology, and the Anglo-Saxon outlook on life. Living under an alien people, Black Americans and other groups must follow the Anglo-Saxon way of life as a strategy to accommodate themselves to get as much benefit as possible. Living under alien people and culture, for other groups, this is a means for survival. For other groups of Americans besides the Black American group, to become an American, they did not have to become “anti" themselves.

For example, when an Irishman becomes American, he can still be loyal and devoted to his ethnicity and his mother country in Ireland. Black Americans, to the contrary, were cut off completely from their African heritage and African history, which means they had nothing to rely upon, no frame of reference, except that of the white world. Their aspirations were that of the white world because their black world was destroyed. So, from babyhood to adulthood, Black Americans learned the ways, the ideas, the aspirations, and outlook of white people. They saw nothing that indicated that they themselves were people of equal worth. They began to worship all things European and looked down upon all things African. By African Americans being denied their ancient and medieval history in Africa, they are forced to identify with the elite and ruling people of the U.S., European-Americans.

Western (European) civilization has projected Africa as undesirable through movies like Tarzan, and this is why some African Americans, especially in times past, don’t want anything to do with African history. African Americans have been brainwashed for many generations, and this is why many African Americans believe Africa is a backward continent and the inhabitants of that continent should not be accorded with dignity. African Americans have been fed a two-century continuous diet of lies about West African cultural and anthropological history. Dr. Calvin R. Robinson, Dr. Edward W. Robinson and Redman Battle, authors of The Journey of the Songhai People said that the West African homeland where most of the ancestors of the present-day African Americans came from was a great and beautiful civilization. Had this civilization not been savagely and brutally interrupted by a calculated sneak invasion, with the aid of mercenaries, there is no telling how far world civilization might be advanced today.

“African history is the cake and African American history is the icing. No matter how sweet the icing, if the cake is made by our detractors from decaying ingredients, the whole cake is defiled and will be thrown away. Thus, we (African Americans) must make the cake ourselves from the pure ingredients of Truth.” - Dr. Calvin R. Robinson, Dr. Edward W. Robinson and Redman Battle, authors of The Journey of the Songhai People

Not just African Americans, but all Black people of the African Diaspora living in Western civilization have cultural and historical amnesia because their ancestors’ brains were wiped clean of who they were during ancient and medieval times in Africa by the elites of Western civilization. This is why as a collective, the descendants of the enslaved Africans living in Western civilization are unable to remember their once glorious and magnificent ancient and medieval past in Africa before the enslavement of their ancestors. It is true that “History is to the human race, what memory is to the individual.”

“Don’t call me an African American … It diminishes everything I’ve accomplished and everything every other black person has accomplished on American soil … no, I am not an African American. I’m not from Africa. I’m from New York.” – Oscar-Winning Actress Whoopi Goldberg

African Americans as a collective must realize what has happened to them as a people was unique and tragic and cannot be compared to any other group of Americans. The Blacks of America have attempted to be so American that they are more American than any other group, in terms of their devotion to prove to themselves and to the ruling European-American group. Black Americans are the only group in the white U.S. population that seems to be ashamed of their heritage, because many deny their “African” heritage. Some Black Americans look upon the “African” with scorn and have forgotten that they are by race African people. This is true, more than any other people of the American population.

The Black Consciousness Movement

In the 1960s, the Black Consciousness Movement emerged, and this movement was the intellectual side of the political Black Power Movement. Steve Biko (South Africa) was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement.  

The Black Consciousness Pioneers:

• Steve Biko (author of I Write What I Like, South Africa): Black Souls; White Skins

  
  

  “Briefly defined therefore, Black Consciousness is in essence the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their operation —the blackness of their skin —and to operate as a group in order to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.” 

• Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois (author of The Souls of Black Folk, United States of America): African Americans live in a constant state of double consciousness, which is the sense of always looking at one’s true self through the eyes of others.

  “An American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from torn asunder (apart).” – Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

  
  

  

  Image I (Top Left): The founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like (1978)

  Image II (Top Right): Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

  Image III (Bottom Left): Dr. Chancellor Williams’ The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 200 A.D. (1971)

  Image IV (Bottom Right): Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

  
  

• Dr. Chancellor Williams (author of The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 200 A.D., United States of America): The White Mind Transplant

  
  

  “The greatest victory of the white world over the black, was not the conquest of their land (Africa), as tragic as that was. It was not the conquest of all the wealth, mineral wealth and otherwise from that land, as devastating and tragic as that was. It was not even the conquest of their bodies and enslavement of their bodies, as tragic and degrading and devastating as that was. But the white man’s greatest triumph over the Blacks and what seems to be an almost permanent triumph was the conquest of the Black man’s mind.” - Dr. Chancellor Williams

• Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (author of Black Skin, White Masks, Caribbean Island of Martinque): Black Skin, White Masks

  
  

  “Moral consciousness implies a kind of split, a fracture of consciousness between a dark and a light side. Moral standards require the black, the dark, and the black man to be eliminated from this consciousness. A Black man is constantly struggling against his own image.” - Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon

Alkebu-lan (Africa): The Land of the Spirit People & Land of the Gods

During ancient times, Black people were known as “Ethiopians,” which is the Greek rendering of “Black” or the “sun-burnt people.” Black people during this time were also known as “Children of the Sun,” because they were blessed by the Egyptian Sun God himself, Ra, and Black people’s highly melanated skin protected them from the sun’s fiery rays. Black people during ancient and medieval times, and during the modern era are still and have always been Ra’s children. Black people’s very blackness, therefore, was religious, a blessing and an honor, and not a curse. 

The Ancestors of African Americans Before the European Transatlantic Slave Trade in West Africa

Image I (Left): Formally enslaved people at Foller’s House in Cumberland Landing, Va., circa 1850. Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images

The Songhai Empire: The Child of Egypt in West Africa during Medieval Times

Image II (Right): The territorial extent of the Songhai Empire in c. 1500. The Songhai Empire consisted of parts of the present-day countries of Niger, Northern Nigeria, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea.  At its height during the 16th century, the Songhai Empire was the same size as all of Europe combined. Image courtesy of KarnRedsun

“Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.” – African Proverb

The ancestors of African Americans (about 93%) came from a highly cultured empire in West Africa, and this country was called the Songhai Empire. The Songhai people were unique and can be characterized as highly intelligent, industrious, spiritual, and aggressively invincible as traders and warriors. This region of West Africa, the Western Sudan, had natural salt mines, goldfields, and goldmines. The gold of the Western Sudan was why this region of Africa was referred to as the “land of gold" that was ruled by the “lords of gold.” 

All Hail Askia the Great

Askia (i.e., Emperor) Mohammed Touré I (Askia the Great) came to power in 1493, just one year after Christopher Columbus so-called discovered the American continent in 1492. Askia the Great ruled the Songhai Empire for 36-years, and he was arguably one of Songhai’s greatest emperors. Askia the Great was responsible for the Songhai Empire being the same size as all of Europe combined during the 16th century, and it was said that travelers were safe in any part of his country as if they were in the emperor’s court.

The kingdom of Timbuktu during the 16th century

Timbuktu, the kingdom of gold, had a population of 100,000 people, with beautiful Black women. According to Songhai writers, Timbuktu was equivalent to the present-day United States of America cities of Chicago and New York, and Paris, France all combined and blended into an African setting. The University of Sankoré had thousands of students from all parts of Africa and other regions attending. The university also attracted scholars from different foreign nations. At the University of Sankoré, there were Black doctors, scientists, lawyers and other scholars. The Songhai doctors even performed cataract surgery, the removal of cataracts on the eye.

“And this civilization (i.e., the Songhai Empire) was not imposed by circumstances, nor by an invader as is often the case even in our own day. It was desired, called forth, introduced and propagated by a man of the black race.” - Felix Dubois, author of Timbuctoo the Mysterious

The Songhai Empire reigned supreme during its height during the 15th and 16th centuries. During the 16th century, the Songhai Empire was the same size as all of Europe combined, and the nation was so huge that it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean and almost reached the Indian Ocean. The Songhai Empire was politically, but far more intellectually a child of Egypt in West Africa.

“Songhay’s (Songhai’s) greatness was due to something more than the remarkable expansion of its empire over a territory larger than the continent of Europe. That was great, but greater by far was the grand scale on which the revival of learning spread among the Blacks of West Africa─The Western Sudan, or ‘Land of the Blacks.’ Three of the principal centers of learning were Jenne, Gao, and Timbuktu.” – Dr. Chancellor Williams

European explorers and traders were seeking to get into the Western Sudan from the coastal regions, and they found their way barred by rain forests and the mighty Songhai army. Europeans conducted raids to get Black people as slaves from Songhai were repulsed. This is what brought about the distrust of Africans against all European people. According to Dr. Calvin R. Robinson, Dr. Edward W. Robinson and Redman Battle, contrary to what the uninformed of what Black people say, their ancestors from the Songhai Empire (about 93% of the present-day African Americans) didn’t sell other Black people from the many African ethnic groups or tribes in Africa to any of the European slave traders and slave masters. Also, Europeans were unable to crack the defense system of the Songhai Empire through the 15th and 16th centuries. Raids by Europeans were carried out and were successful in other areas of Africa by this time, but not in the Songhai Empire. Of course, this is not to say that there were not isolated instances of kidnapping by European commando raids.

West Africa’s Golden Age was savagely and brutally interrupted when the Songhai Empire was invaded by Morocco (in Northwest Africa) with their hired British and Spanish mercenaries in 1591. It was after this invasion that the flood gates were open where many European nations brought their Transatlantic slave trade to West Africa. In West Africa, particularly during European colonial rule during the 1800s, the region of the Songhai Empire was stripped of its wealth, minerals, resources and human population. Nearly 100 million Black people were stolen from Africa and became prisoners-of-war (i.e., captured by the enemy. The ancestors from the Songhai Empire were stolen and were made to be slaves by the European enslavers and slave masters in America), mainly between 1591 (the fall of the Songhai Empire) to 1858.

The Songhai people ruled West Africa for 129 years.

The once prosperous Songhai Empire was a rich nation in West Africa that eventually looked like a barren wasteland. Almost every European power was able to get a piece of Africa, and England was the primary plunderer of Africa, especially Egypt. They stole gold, diamonds, precious metals and stones, and of course, Black people for free slave labor. The Transatlantic slave trade left Africa so weak that some European nations had little to no trouble taking what they wanted.

How Some of the Ancestors from West & Central Africa Eventually Became African Americans, Brazilians, Haitians, etc. via the European Transatlantic Slave Trade

“Even the slaves could realize that their actual situation was one of inferiority. And after centuries of bondage, the slaves generally came to believe that they were in fact inferior beings, and that their masters, by the very arrangements of life, were superior. For whether in Asia, Europe, South America, the United States or the West Indies (Caribbean Islands), the story was the same: The essential links with their past were broken. All knowledge of former greatness was lost. Even their kinship and family relationships were destroyed along with their true names. They were not regarded as human beings. They became a race of outcasts hating themselves for being. The Caucasian triumph was complete.” – Dr. Chancellor Williams

On the authority of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, author of New Dimensions in African History with Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan, in the United States of America, the European slave masters bought enslaved Black people in small lots, and they resold the lot. As a result, in the U.S., Africans were separated instantaneously. When people are separated from their families, like a mother away from father, cousins and other relatives, these people no longer have a kinship tie that bonded them together, which means their loyalty system was forcefully broken.

In the Caribbean Islands and South America, the enslaved Africans taken to these regions were bought in large lots and kept together, because the European slave masters thought their enslaved Africans could work better together in that way. They were right, but because the enslaved Africans remained together, and some of them came from the same countries and came over on the same slave ship, they were able to keep their basic culture and were able to maintain their loyalty system. It was the Africans loyalty system in the Caribbean Islands and South America that made the revolts in these regions more successful compared to the revolts of Africans in the U.S. The Blacks in the Caribbean Islands and South America were not braver than the Blacks in the U.S., but their revolts were more successful because their loyalty system had not been broken compared to the Blacks of the U.S. The loyalty system of the Blacks of the U.S. had broken to such an extent that the enslaved African house servants betrayed the enslaved African field workers.

Black People Dehumanized by the Slave Masters of Western (European) Civilization

Black people enslaved in Western civilization was brutal in all the colonies in the western hemisphere. For example, on arrival on the slave ships to the Caribbean Island of Saint-Domingue (i.e., present-day Haiti), the enslaved Africans were immediately given French names by their European (French) slave masters. And they had to learn the French language quickly, and this was how Black people eventually forgot their native languages. If any children were born, they grew up also speaking French only. Haiti was notorious as a place where the enslaved Africans received the most brutal, the most dehumanizing treatment in the Americas.

According to John Thornton, most of the enslaved Africans taken to Haiti were born in Africa, and many of them had served in African armies in their indigenous countries and had a military background prior to their forced enslavement and captivity in Haiti. It was these militarily sound Black people who played a big part in Haiti gaining its independence that was led by General Toussaint L’Ouverture and General Jean-Jacques Dessalines. These Black leaders with their ex-enslaved African armies completely decimated two French invasions, an English invasion and a Spanish invasion.   

According to Historian Stanley Elkins, Europeans (European-Americans) had succeeded in reducing the enslaved Africans of the U.S. (African Americans) to the level of dependency of infants, much like the Nazis were later to do to the Jews. But the Jews holocaust lasted for 10 years, while the Africans (ancestors of African Americans) holocaust lasted for 300 years. These diabolical tactics were not just used in the U.S., but also throughout Africa during European colonial rule. The descendants of the Songhai Empire, living in the U.S. cloaked under the name of “Negro,” had lost their history and cultural background. The lack of knowledge has caused African Americans to be a race in name, rather than in fact; a condition, rather than full consciousness.  

“Our fathers and mothers who were brought here (i.e., United States of America) like cattle, are the present day African American men and women. About ninety-three or so percent came from the Western Sudan, which included (ancient) Ghana, Mali and Songhai. Out of the one hundred or so million or more rooted up from our homeland, only about two million made it to these American shores. There were scores of different societies within the Songhai Empire. We spoke many different languages. As we arrived here, the extreme harsh treatment soon taught our fathers and mothers that whatever language differences or whatever else, that we could not survive unless we stuck together. We naturally had children and over the years that two million grew and grew into the twenty-six to thirty million that we are now. This also includes so-called West Indians and Caribbean family. Therefore, in a direct sense we are tied together by blood and physical suffering and humiliation.” - Dr. Calvin R. Robinson, Dr. Edward W. Robinson and Redman Battle, authors of The Journey of the Songhai People

Time for Reparations for the Descendants of the Enslaved Africans who were Forced to Build the Foundation of Western (European) Civilization

“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.” – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (2019)

Overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade out of Africa, 1500-1900 AD. Captive Africans followed many routes from their homelands to other parts of the world. This map shows the trans-Atlantic movement of these captives in comparative perspective for the centuries since 1500 only.

“However, on the whole, the process by which captives were obtained on African soil was not trade at all. It was through warfare, trickery, banditry, and kidnapping.” – Dr. Walter Rodney, author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Image courtesy of Slave Voyages

According to Dr. Anthony Browder, author of Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths Vol. 1, although the total number of African people stolen from Africa varies from source to source, it has been estimated that a minimum of 50 million African people were displaced from the Transatlantic slave trade. One-third of the enslaved Africans never survived the journey, and those who did survive, approximately one-third died during the breaking-in process. The deaths are more than 80 million African people, and this does not consider the millions of Africans who died before boarding the slave ships, or the number of men, women and children who were raped, beaten to death, or lynched once they arrived in the “New World.”

Economist William Darity of Duke University, along with Ohio State’s Darrick Hamilton have researched the relationship between racial inequality, wealth, and the need for reparations for African Americans. The estimates from other economists and researchers range the reparation amount due to African Americans from $6.4 trillion to $14 trillion. In the Caribbean context, Barbadian Historian Hilary Beckles noted that the Caribbean Islands was the “hub of the British Empire” because these islands is where most of its wealth had been generated, especially after losing the United States of America as a colony in 1776. A 2004 estimate of the cost of the slave trade to the Caribbean Islands arrived at a figure of ₤7.5 trillion. Beckles also urged Great Britain and other European countries who participated in the Transatlantic slave trade, like Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Sweden to pay reparations to Caribbean nations to repair (reparations) for the hundreds of years of damage and injustice they have caused upon the Afro Caribbean people.

African Revolution Leads African Emancipation & Liberation

Some Black people living in the U.S. believe that their ancestors have committed some sin for the punishment they have suffered because of hundreds of years of bondage and slavery. One fact is that the general enslavement of Africans began during the very period when West Africa was the center of culture and learning during medieval times. Also, in West Africa, ancient Ghana’s actual history goes far back beyond its known record. That record listed 44 kings before the Christian era, and this alone would extend ancient Ghana’s known history beyond the 25th Dynasty when the Black pharaohs ruled Egypt during the 7th century BC.

During ancient times, ancient Greeks like Herodotus and before him, Homer after spending considerable time in Africa, could only praise Black (African) people for their just acts towards mankind, wisdom and beauty. They also described the Africans as the most beautiful, favorite of the gods, and the most just of men. Black people have always been in control of themselves and developed the highest consciousness of love and unity within and with all things. The ancient Blacks advocated the concept of the helping hand to lift the African family up as well as mankind.

“For even when our history shows us where we have been weak, it is also showing us how, through our own efforts, we can become strong again.” – Dr. Chancellor Williams

“We must return to the laws that made us Africans great.” - Dr. Calvin R. Robinson, Dr. Edward W. Robinson and Redman Battle, authors of The Journey of the Songhai People

What sort of people were these, then, who

had been torn away from their families,

their country, and their gods with a

savagery unparalleled in history?

Gentle people, polite, considerate,

unquestionably superior to those who

tortured them, that pack of adventurers who

smashed, raped, and insulted Africa the

better to loot her.

They knew how to erect houses,

administer empires, build cities, cultivate the land,

smelt iron ore, weave cotton, and forge steel.

Their religion had a beauty of its own,

based on mysterious contacts with the city’s

founder. Their customs were agreeable, built

on solidarity, goodwill, and respect for age.

No coercion, built mutual aid, the joy of

living, and freely consented discipline.

Order―strength―poetry and liberty.

- Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, author of Black Skin, White Masks

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