FOR OVER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS, AFRICANS CARRIED THE TORCH OF HUMANITY through the marathon of our early existence. It was because of their ability to persevere and evolve into sentient beings that humanity and civilization, as we know them today, came into existence. However, over the last five hundred years or so, people of African descent have been treated, not as the mother of humanity, but instead, as unwanted stepchildren. At times this treatment was inhumane and denied people of African descent, the basic rights, and privileges of humankind, thus, placing them on a subhuman level far beneath those of European ancestry.

On every level, narratives were created to justify the inferiority of the “so-called Negro.” From the halls of academia to the walls that demarcated their potential, black people were cursed with the Scarlet Letter of subservience, forever damned by the color of their skin. This was the narrative of the last five hundred years and buried within this “big white lie” was the beauty and contributions of all things African. Long gone were those days in antiquity when black Egyptians laid the cornerstone of Western Civilization to be superseded by the mumpsimus of the past and the lies of ages. This book tells a different story, one that celebrates the history of African people from prehistory to the modern-day.

The paperback includes Volumes I and II. Volume I is Antiquity and Volume II is post-Columbian.

ISBN: 978-1732184473 Prometheus Author: Richard Lawson Singley