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Cheikh Anta Diop Disproved European ‘scholars’…Johan Bachofen, Lewis Morgan, & Friedrich Engels, Who Said There Was Only 1 Culture, White Culture And, Any Other Was Inferior
The Father of Afrocentricity…”The Cultural Unity Of Black Africa”
Diop not only proved that we, Africans/People of Color have a culture but that it was rooted in ‘respect’ whereas European culture is rooted in ‘lack of respect’.
DIOP’S TWO CRADLE THEORY
FROM “THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION” AND “CULTURAL UNITY”
CHARACTERISTIS OF THE TWO CRADLES
(Determined by Environment after a separation during the Ice Age.)
Southern Cradle-Egyptian Model
- Abundance of vital resources.
- Sedentary-agricultural.
- Gentle, idealistic, peaceful nature with a spirit of justice.
- Matriarchal family.
- Emancipation of women in domestic life.
- Territorial state.
- Xenophilia.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Social collectivism.
- Material solidarity of right for individual which makes moral or material misery unknown.
- Idea of peace, justice, goodness and optimism.
- Literature emphasizes novel tales, fables and comedy.
Northern Cradle-Greek Model
- Bareness of resources.
- Nomadic-hunting (piracy)
- Ferocious, warlike nature with spirit of survival.
- Patriarchal family.
- Debasement / enslavement of women.
- City state (fort)
- Xenophobia.
- Parochialism.
- Individualism.
- Moral solitude.
- Disgust for existence, pessimism.
- Literature favors tragedy.
Source: http://www.jalumi.com/class/csu/Two_Cradle_Theory.htm
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