African American GOLDEN LEGACY

Roots in a rich heritage...

Celebrating Kwanzaa

The name Kwanzaa is derived from the phrase "matunda ya kwanza" which means "first fruits" in Swahili, a Pan-African language which is the most widely spoken African language. The first-fruits celebrations are recorded in African history as far back as ancient Egypt and Nubia and appear in ancient and modern times in other classical African civilizations such as Ashantiland and Yorubaland. These celebrations are also found in ancient and modern times among societies as large as empires (the Zulu) or kingdoms (Swaziland) or smaller societies and groups in all of southeastern Africa.

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BLACK AMERICANS WERE KIDNAPPED FROM THE LAND CALLED AFRICA:

In ancient Africa---Black people had their own civilizations, schools, temples, sciences, and many so-called modern conveniences hundreds of years before 1492 when Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas.

European explorers were not the first to find the Americas. When Columbus landed in the Americas -- Black Indians met him. Africans had been to the Americas and traded with the so-called Indians long before the Europeans thought of it. In fact, at one time in history, Africa was the "New York" of the world, where all new inventions, products, and concepts were found.

Timbuktu (University of Sankore) was once the mecca for education.

Check out this website on the early kingdoms...

www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/07/sfe/ht07sfe.htm

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN BLACK PEOPLE RULED...

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A combination of Nubians and West Africans engaged in mutual trade and commerce along the coasts of West Africa could have planned many trips to and from the Americas and could have conducted a crossing about 1500 B.C. and afterwards. Massive sculptures of the heads of typical Negritic Africans were carved in the region of South Mexico where the Olmec civilization flourished. Some of these massive heads of basalt contain the cornrow hairstyle common among West African Blacks, as well as the kinky coiled hair common among at least 70 percent of all Negritic people, (the other proportion being the Dravidian Black race of India and the Black Australoids of Australia and South Asia).

Collossol Afro-Olmec head of basalt wearing
Nubian type war helmet, circa 1100 B.C.