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Selected Books @ Cornell
Africa: Mother of Western Civilization by Call Number: Africana Library DT20 .B45 1988In lecture/essay format, Dr. Ben identifies and corrects myths about the inferiority and primitiveness of the indigenous African peoples and their descendants. Order Africa Mother of Western Civilization here.
Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum by Call Number: Africana Library DT159.6.N83 A53x 1998Stanley Burstein has researched, compiled, and translated with commentary the most significant Greek and Roman sources concerning black Africa. The result is this work about the people of the southern part of the Nile Valley, the gold mines of Nubia, the Hellenistic city of Meroe, capital of the Ethiopian Empire of Kush with its own highly developed culture (300 BC to 300 AD). Burstein opens the volume with a brief survey of the two kingdoms of Kush and Axum. With introductions and notes he then presents the ancient literary and epigraphical testimony for this region.
Ancient Egypt and Black Africa: A Student's Handbook for the Study of Ancient Egypt in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Gender Relations by Call Number: Africana Library DT61 .O12 1992
Black Man of The Nile And His Family by Call Number: Africana Library GN645 .B45 1981In a unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose "Europeanized" African history.
Kemet And The African Worldview: Research, Rescue, and Restoration by Call Number: Africana Library DT77 .K31Kemet and the African Worldview: Research, Rescue, and Restoration: Selected Papers of the Proceedings of the First and Second Conferences of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, 24-26 February 1984 (6224 Afe), Los Angeles,...
Maat, The Moral Ideal In Ancient Egypt: A Study In Classical African Ethics by Call Number: Africana Library B141 .K18 1994This work is a critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt. It seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at the same time preserving and building on its distinctiveness as a moral ideal capable of inspiring and maintaining ethical philosophic reflection.
Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were Not The Authors of Greek Philosophy, But The People of North Africa, Commonly Called The Egyptians by Call Number: Africana Library B171 .J27 1976Challenging the notion that civilization started in Greece, this uncompromising classic attempts to prove that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not Greeks but Egyptians. The text asserts that the praise and honor blindly given to the Greeks for centuries rightfully belong to the people of Africa, and argues that the theft of this great African legacy led to the erroneous world opinion that the African continent has made no contribution to civilization.
