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HEALING AFRIKA

THE RISE AND FALL OF AFRIKAN CIVILIZATION

Dr. Jack Githae

The School of Alternative Medicine and Technology
The strangest thing about these
frika is the second most
has the oldest history. It is the ancient cities and towns is that
populous continent
cradle of organized medicine, little information exists about
in the world and was
originally known as agriculture and education, having them in recent history books.
AAlkebulan. She rests the oldest universities in the This historical perspective makes
world. It is, ironically, purported to Afrikans seem to be a backward
on a land mass of 30,370,000
have economically the poorest of and savage people who had no
square kilometers, making her
people, when judged by Western history and intellect and had to
the second largest continent in
the entire world. About 1.2 billion social, cultural and economic wait for others to discover them.
people in 54 sovereign states call criteria. Sadly, the colonial era propaganda
On the east coast of Afrika, from has been ingrained and reinforced
Afrika their homeland.
Somalia to Mozambique, there in the minds of Afrikans and
Afrika has the second and third
still exist ruins of over 50 ancient the entire world’s population for
highest mountains in the world,
besides having unique lakes and towns and cities that are believed generations now. Afrika’s history,
rivers. It is also the richest continent to have flourished from the 9th to therefore, seems to be the history
the 16th Centuries. History books, of other races.
in natural resources such as
written and articulated by the An Afrikan is defined as
minerals, energy, biodiversity (flora
West, credit the existence of these ‘humankind born around the great
and fauna), human resources,
cultural diversity and intellect and ancient cities and towns to the lakes region, almost on the equator
Arabian and Persian civilizations. and is black’, because according