Africa is the most ravaged continent. It was home to great civilizations that predated most other civilizations. Nevertheless, like the history of other civilizations, they blossomed and declined mostly without successor civilizations. The modern study of Africa has uncovered knowledge about its peoples that was lost since the distant times of antiquity. It has proved that the Greek historians Herodotus (c. 484 – 425 BCE) and Diodorus (c.90 BCE- c.30 BCE) of the classical age had stated that the black people were “different but equal”. Long before slavery distorted European perceptions, the ancient Greeks had approached Africans on eye- level. In 1984 in his book “The story of Africa”, the journalist Basil Davidson led us to the monuments of ancient African history:
For example, the walls of Great Zimbabwe give witness to one of the most significant civilizations in the world during the medieval period. It was first discovered in 1871 by the German geologist Carl Mauch (1837- 1875) who was wandering around in search for gold. Unfortunately, he and all Europeans of his time were so prejudiced that they could not believe the evidence of their own eyes. Rather than facing the possibility that Africans might have a history of their own, they fabricated exotic explanations of longtime gone and faraway monarchs like King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba to have built it.
Another example of such history forgery is the neglected Nswatugi Cave in the Metabo hills of modern Zimbabwe. The 3.000 years old rock frieze shows large numbers of giraffes, antelopes and kudu cows; the last together with humans. It is not very clear why and how these were created, but similar as in other cave paintings in the world, they might have served as psychological and spiritual reassurance before or after group hunting. The same animals are still living in that area.
In the 1950ies, a team of French scientists, led by Henri Lhote (1903- 1991), discovered another rock paintings in the Algerian Tesla Mountains of today’s Sahara. They, too, show people hunting animals, which proves that the region once carried wildlife. The paintings have been estimated to be around seven- or eight thousand years old. As the land turned into desert, its peoples migrated to the South, the West, and in the East into the valley of the Nile. This means that the great civilization of the Egypt Pharaohs had its origins in the heart of Black Africa. The evidence suggest that the earliest kingdom of the Nile was in Nubia. Later, the Kingdom of Kush had its own distinctive culture and achievements amongst which, perhaps, was the taming of the great African elephant. These discovering of diverse forms of civilization in Africa brought into light various concepts of divinity, creation and moral order, which gave social life to communities. This is why many modern historians view black peoples any previous generation to match in depth and accuracy. People are used to identifying Africans with misery, disasters and suffering; in their misjudging, they do not notice the histogarife of and her fascinating cultural wealth.

Africans’ Legacy

Date	Theme	Name	Download
28.06.2022	Theodor W. Michael	Peter Arthur	PDF	834.79 KB
06.07.2021	Gold Coast before Ghanna	Pastor Peter Arthur	PDF	1.58 MB
12.10.2020	John Mensah Sarbah (1864- 1910)	Peter Arthur	PDF	551.03 KB
12.10.2020	Marcus Garvey (1887- 1940)	Peter Arthur	PDF	576.26 KB
09.10.2020	The Sons of Africa” in London	Peter Arthur	PDF	665.03 KB
09.10.2020	Philip (Kwaku) Quaque (1740- 1816)	Peter Arthur	PDF	542.97 KB
09.10.2020	The Story of Free Town/ Sierra Leone	Peter Arthur	PDF	566.63 KB
09.10.2020	James Kwegyir Aggrey (1875- 1927)	Peter Arthur	PDF	584.75 KB
09.10.2020	Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford (1866- 1893)	Peter Arthur	PDF	545.51 KB
09.10.2020	Beginnings of a Black Theology and its Social Impact	Peter Arthur	PDF	549.04 KB
08.10.2020	MigrantInnengemeinden in Deutschland	Peter Arthur	PDF	462.08 KB
08.10.2020	How can we get in touch with each other?	Peter Arthur	PDF	114.39 KB
08.10.2020	Wie kann man gut miteinander umgehen?	Peter Arthur	PDF	77.60 KB
08.10.2020	Why African theology?	Peter Arthur	PDF	590.08 KB
08.10.2020	The ancient history of the continent known today as Africa	Peter Arthur	PDF	439.58 KB
08.10.2020	Catholic Mission in Subsahara- Africa, especially Gold Coast	Peter Arthur	PDF	484.71 KB
08.10.2020	How Islam was introduced in the Kingdom of Aksum	Peter Arthur	PDF	513.55 KB
08.10.2020	The further expansion of Islam reaching West Africa	Peter Arthur	PDF	532.03 KB
08.10.2020	African response to and today’s role of Islam in the continent	Peter Arthur	PDF	585.34 KB
08.10.2020	Christian faith does not automatically promote equal rights and justice	Peter Arthur	PDF	668.55 KB
08.10.2020	European colonialism and slavery	Peter Arthur	PDF	562.99 KB
08.10.2020	The “social disease” racism	Peter Arthur	PDF	707.85 KB
07.10.2020	Dr. Kwame Nkrumah	Peter Arthur	PDF	865.86 KB
07.10.2020	Dr. Kwame Nkrumah	Peter Arthur	PDF	865.86 KB
07.10.2020	Anthony Willam Amo	Peter Arthur	PDF	313.57 KB
07.10.2020	Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Through the eyes of the world	Peter Arthur	PDF	1.28 MB
07.10.2020	Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Through the eyes of the world	Peter Arthur	PDF	1.37 MB
07.10.2020	End of Slave Trade in the British Empire	Peter Arthur	PDF	647.45 KB
07.10.2020	Der Abschaffung des Sklavenhandels durch das Britische Königreich	Peter Arthur	PDF	520.82 KB
07.10.2020	Der Kampf um die letzten Fischgründe	Peter Arthur	PDF	67.78 KB
07.10.2020	How do we help those who need help Ger	Peter Arthur	PDF	743.63 KB
07.10.2020	How do we help those who need help?	Peter Arthur	PDF	636.86 KB