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History

Inspired By the Article: 11
Ancient African writing
systems that demolish the myth
that black people were illiterate.
Written by A Moore.
Originally Published on the
Atlanta Black Star website.
Ancient African

Reading and Writing

Systems DEBUNKING THE LIES THAT ANCIENT AFRICANS

WERE ILLITERATE BEFORE THE COMING OF
EUROPEANS.

s an African, have came here? Or that there were But here is the thing. There are

you ever heard no reading and writing systems lots of misconceptions about
the statement that before the arrival of the white the African people which were
AAfricans were man to the shores of Africa? I deliberately created to push
illiterate before Europeans bet you might have heard that. the narrative of backward and

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