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    Africa; Colonized And Terrorized
    Africa; Colonized And Terrorized
    Africa; Colonized And Terrorized
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    Africa; Colonized And Terrorized

    By Will Anthony, Jr

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    In the precincts of our universe, history is the clock face that tells a people their historical time of the moment. Without employing the use of natural cardinal points, history becomes the compass which the sages use to locate themselves and their communities on the invisible world map that indicates time and space. It is in history that a people are able to discern who they are and where they have come from and how far! It is also in the history that a people chart there way forward. Yet as much as African History can be applied as a powerful weapon against colonial history, mental enslavement resulting from colonization remains the core that hampers disengagement towards self confidence by the African people.The history of European colonization was solely and sorely engaged in the land dispossession and destruction of African knowledge. As late as 1626 for example, the Atlantic sea was known as the Ethiopian sea and the Indian Ocean was called the Azania Sea. Perhaps the names were changed when it was discovered that these two water bodies were actually oceans and not seas! George Murdock in his works wrote that Azanians stimulated trade with the East.

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    PublisherWill Anthony, Jr
    Release dateMar 19, 2015
    ISBN9781311516053
    Africa; Colonized And Terrorized
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    Will Anthony, Jr

    Will Anthony Jr. is currently the Chairman of the Uasin Gishu County Land Control Board which caters for over one million people. Before this stint, he worked in other capacities with the National government. He has also been lecturer in three religious institutions, a service to the youth to gather knowledge from the aging population. In his life time, Will Anthony Jr. says he has met a lot of people and can unflinchingly say that he loved most of them. Why most of them? Well, it is a tall order to love everyone you meet! Will Anthony Jr. has written several e-books touching on diverse subjects that relate to society. The books extensively cover human social and economic practices and this is so because expertise in one field in Africa can become a drudgery according to his practical view. His perception is that if you were born in Africa and the continent is your aboriginal home, you are likely to have English as your second language (ESL). Sometimes it could even be a third language. For him, he had to learn his mother tongue then learn both English and Swahili simultaneously. He went to his pre-primary bare foot, later he joined the local primary school 5 Km away and had to trek barefoot again not because his parents could not buy him shoes but because cobblers were a rare find. That journey was a daily toil of 10 Km, 5 days in a week or ~270 days yearly for 7 years. With a smirk he says that when you achieve a PhD in Africa, then You have done Plenty of hard Digging (PhD) or you have a Permanent head Damage (PhD) and you might end up in a ditch because your IQ cannot contain the booze like the local fellas!"Why did the English colonize Africa?" To keep the African languages in Czech (check), and he says that one must forgive this pun. But besides the pun, English has broken both social and economic barriers of the once "dark continent" whose forefathers slaved the white farms and firms to lace the pockets of their Lords.A PhD holder in Africa will still practice other 'trades' though they maybe 'very' learned because poverty is shameless, one has to draw bounds through plenty of smart work or else, it will be a shame to steal so as to maintain class.He published a book in 1992, but the publisher coned him , he took her to court and the case aged in judicial corridors for 12 years. He then made a decision to abandon the matter and to forget about writing books. However, Self publishing made him to change that decision. More than anything, He salutes Smashwords Inc. for the platform.In retrospect, He recalls a Dr. Alfred Sam, a friend of his from North America who was also a dean of studies in a local university, exposing his white ass in the university's auditorium to catch attention. The noise ceased as students and lecturers turned to look at the grown-up man on the podium doing the abominable. Well, the good Dr. in anthropology then simply pulled up his trousers buckled the belt and said, "Thank You, now I have your attention..."For the sake of simplicity, without much display of academia, Will Anthony Jr. is a writer in the global village market . For this, he Salutes all his readers and all lovers of written work. In a word of caution, he says that men and women alike must bear. In reference, there is an Ibo saying that every market place has it's mad people who will attempt to mar the business of the seemingly sane people. On the other hand, the English say everyone is mad, it's only the degree madness that is at variance. Salutes most profoundly!

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      Africa; Colonized And Terrorized - Will Anthony, Jr

      AFRICA;

      COLONIZED AND

      TERRORIZED

      Wilson Maiyo, PhD

      Copyright 2015 Wilson Maiyo, PhD

      Smashwords Edition

      LICENSE

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without written permission of the copy right owner. Nor can it be circulated in any form of binding or cover other that which it is published and without similar condition being imposed on subsequent purchaser.

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      Title: Africa; Colonized And Terrorized

      PUBLISHER: Smashwords, Inc

      Table Of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      BIRTH PLACE OF MAN

      AFRICA BEFORE COLONIZATION

      TRANS- ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

      THE COLONIZATION OF AFRICA

      AFRICA RAPED BY COLONIALISTS

      HONORED FOR ASTROCITES

      POWER OF PAN-AFRICANISM

      POTENTIAL AND THE RICHES OF AFRICA

      THE GIST OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLES

      ADVANCING AFRICA’S AUTHENTIC LIBERATION

      AFRICA’S SURVIVAL AND SECURITY

      AFRICA AND WW2

      COLONIALISM LEGACIES TO AFRICA

      THE AFRICAN RESISTANCE

      A PERIOD OF CHANGE

      TYPES OF RULES

      CONCLUSSION

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INTRODUCTION

      Whether or not colonialism shoved Africa into the first lane of development or destruction is a matter of conjecture. Every crevice in Africa felt the effects of colonialism and these effects are presently visible all over the continent, even in Ethiopia and Liberia. Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonized per se; Liberia and Freetown in Sierra Leone are what they are; liberated and free.

      Edem Kodjo the author of ‘Africa Tomorrow’ adequately describes the condition of African as torn away from his past, propelled into a universe fashioned from outside that suppresses his values, and dumbfounded by a cultural invasion that marginalizes him. He goes on to say that Africa is today the deformed image of others. Wherever one walks in Africa today, there is a struggle to Africanize the economy and the development, but it can be clearly seen that Africa has been orphaned of her children. Architecture is the outward struggle that the African continent strives to use as a tool to silently scream Please, we are still alive and we need to be us!

      In the precincts of our universe, history is the clock face that tells a people their historical time of the moment. Without employing the use of natural cardinal points, history becomes the compass which the sages use to locate themselves and their communities on the invisible world map that indicates time and space. It is in history that a people are able to discern who they are and where they have come from and how far! It is also in the history that a people chart there way forward. Yet as much as African History can be applied as a powerful weapon against colonial history, mental enslavement resulting from colonization remains the core that hampers disengagement towards self confidence by the African people.

      BIRTH PLACE OF MAN

      Everyone seems to have come from Africa, the continent that straddles the tropics and the equator! Africa has been alleged by archeologists to be the Mother of Humanity. This can be proved by civilizations that stretch from as far as Egypt to Zimbabwe. Interestingly, the researchers who have come to prove that Africa is the cradle of the first human civilization are not children of Africa per se. For this rib, we must all accept that humanity begun somewhere in Africa, Dr. Leaky has suggested the position to be around Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya.

      When we talk of the First Renaissance on this planet, we should be looking at the African Renaissance. Initially, Africa was in the category alone of the first world economically and technologically while other continents were still asleep, he could NOT be the third world of poor men and women robbed of their strong and well nourished children, lands and natural riches that were safeguarded for the benefit of the citizens. It is the skilled and strong children of the continent that built the pyramids which even in this century no one has been able recreate. It has been a struggle to prove that Egyptian civilization was a Black civilization, with a number of researchers dying for not conforming to the desires of their sponsors. The pharaohs were purely black people and this can be discerned from the drawings in the pyramids showing the shape of their faces and especially the nose in relation to the mouth and chin. Prof. Cheikh Anta Diop, the great African Egyptologist, wrote: "The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and will not be written correctly until African historians dare connect it with the history

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