Black education most definitely needs more focus in its consideration of black women. Scientists like Louis B. Leakey teach that all races can be traced back to African blood. This means that black women are the mothers of the human race – period. As such, we blacks are the most ancient people on earth and, therefore, our history is the oldest. Our history is not simply thousands of years old: it is millions.
Western education would have you believe that those millions of years were spent in ignorance. This is one reason why black people need to study and interpret their own history for themselves because having such an immense history means that black women (the subject of our discussion) have had millions of years of great achievements.
I will not bore you with millions of years of history. I could not if I wanted to. Too much time has passed and, more to the point, too many invasions have occurred, resulting in burnings of massive libraries, the destruction of an immeasurable amount of records, and grossly distorted interpretations. We can be glad, however, that our ancestors recorded a great deal of their history in stone all over the world.
In order to supplement our black education and to piece together our history, black scholars have had to become multi-disciplinarians, specializing not only in history, but in archeology, anthropology, architecture, biology, chemistry, physics, geology, languages, literature, and so forth. Because of this holistic approach to scholarship, today, we know that dark-skinned blacks built the first civilizations and developed religion, science, math, and almost all of the other disciplines that we study. We also know that black women worked side-by-side with men in each stage of this development. Check out the works of authors like Cheikh Anta Diop for more information.
Take African mythology. The goddesses shared equal power or, in some cases, the goddesses were dominant to the gods. The significance of this is that the myths represented the religions that heavily influenced the people. (You will find this to be an understatement if you care to delve deeper.) This means that for eons, these societies expected female leadership. Thus, there was no need for female rights organizations. Please keep in mind that these societies were balanced and stable long enough to produce mysteries in advanced technologies that modern scientists still cannot comprehend.
Throughout our black education, we should make every attempt to appreciate that African history is extremely old and vast. It would be easy to wonder whether or not there have been as many or even more African queens as there have been European kings in totality. Africa has had that much of a head start on Europe. Dr. John Henrik Clarke said that African history was old before Europe was born.
