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When The World Was Black: The Untold History of the World's First Civilizations, Part One: Prehistoric Cultures Paperback – February 2, 2013

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In this book, we cover over 200,000 years of Black history. For many of us, that sounds strange. We can t even imagine what the Black past was like before the slave trade, much less imagine that such a history goes back 200,000 years or more. Can you imagine what that does to a person? To grow up believing their people started out as slaves? Perhaps some of us know a little about Africa, but how much do we really know? How much do we know about the extent of the ancient Black empires that spanned far beyond continental Africa? Chances are, very little. In this book, we ll tell the stories you haven t been told. We ll talk about the Black migrations that settled the world. We ll show you the Black people who founded the first cultures and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, the Pacific Islands, and North and South America. No exaggeration. This book covers more than 200,000 years of Black history across every square inch of the Planet Earth. As we learn the history of our ancestors, we ll learn more and more about ourselves.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Supreme Design, LLC; 2nd edition (February 2, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1935721046
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1935721048
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.91 x 8.5 inches

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Dr. Supreme Understanding is the teacher we need today. A long-standing champion for the rights of Original People, Dr. Supreme Understanding teaches audiences how to transform their lives and liberate themselves, in plain and engaging language that anyone can appreciate! For over 20 years, Supreme has been working at global social change. He’s published over 25 books, all geared towards the education and empowerment of the urban community. His work has now reached millions of young minds with the message that, by changing our own minds and lives, we can change the world.

Supreme’s works are now included in the curriculum of schools and programs throughout the world, and he has consulted with organizations as diverse as the ACLU, the Global Alliance for Justice Education, the Japanese Ministry of Education, and the US Social Forum. His dynamic multimedia presentations engage the attention of audiences both young and old, and his messages leave more than a lasting impression – they change lives.

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Mr TKM

Game changer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2020

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Let me first say that I don't write reviews generally. But this book was so good that I felt compelled to. I read other books on African history, but I was still left with many gaps e.g. understanding the science, understanding terminology, proper references, and also many unanswered questions. This book does an incredible (this is an understatement) job of tracing the history of Africans and their contributions, plugging gaps, educating the reader and pushing them to think critically. It's fundamentally changed my view on many topics. Well done! I'll be buying more books, and I hope your message goes further because it needs to be heard.

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Belsize

Lack of scholarship or evidence

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2020

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I must say I wasn’t impressed by this book. Huge assumptions but not much evidence.

Also the author seems to credit the development of the first humans to achieve anything like society or control of their environment, from whom we all descended, only to on group of those descendants not to all descendants. Doesn’t make sense. Yes early humans achieved this, but we all descended from them.
Also claims like the last 200,000 years ‘present evidence of brain surgery, astronomy, earth shaping, long range seafaring, trade, mining and feats of engineering that modern man struggles to reproduce today’ – like what ? South American skull trepanning is not brain surgery, and as for the rest I would welcome any example that we struggle to reproduce today.
He has a good point that technological progress is not necessarily progress in terms of civilisation but this is a point made many times in the past.
His leaps of assumptions are huge. He claims the Man people of China were called foreign, and that sometimes they were referred to as from the East (debatable), so ‘This would suggest that calling them Man was like calling them African’. Where do you get that from? But he then goes on to suggest then that they were a black population which were ‘responsible for founding China’s first dynasties’ despite the fact that the Man people were not integrated into the main Han population until hundreds of years after the first dynasties. There is a lack of scholarship here.

So many more examples like the above.

Feels more based on an initial assumption than evidence.

Maybe I will get on better with book 2.

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Chubbs

A positive narrative for once 😊

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2019

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Different insight on the general way history is geared towards a western audience in relation to Africa. Think it should be broken down further for a child audience so kids can start learning the fundimentals of African history in a positive many from the start and challenge/question the negative narrative about black history.

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Jenny

Black and African history 101!

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Loving this book, 51 pages in and can't put it down. I've learnt so much about myself all ready. Confirming what I already knew, but also subatantiating things also. Definitely going to pass this on. I made a goal to learn more about black and African history. This is a bloody good start!

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HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE in a BOOK!!!

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If you want to find out the true Origins of man..... Read this book and you will get an in-depth running commentary of our movement from Africa to populate other parts of this world that we live in today. This was such an eye opener on so many levels.

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