Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan ..., John Henrik Clarke
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan ..., John Henrik Clarke
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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

Author: John Henrik Clarke

Narrator: Will Stauff

Unabridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/08/2019


Synopsis



This short but timely work gives the listener a sense of the urgency of African and world history at this moment in time....

Like many of the African-centered scholars who were Dr. Clarke's teachers and his sources of inspiration, he not only gives you accurate analysis and the descriptions of history, he provides prescription of what Africans have to do to bring into being a new day.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on December 12, 2019

Many of today's problems are based on a lack of reappraisal of the atrocities and as long as the history books are biased sick ideologies can continue to create ever poorer concepts. That is why the style of reporting and historiography over this time until to the present has to be revised and all th......more

Goodreads review by Monte on May 08, 2016

OH MY GOD! WHAT A BOOK. IT OPENED MY EYES AND GAVE ME A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF HOW THE NEW WORLD DEVELOPED AND WHAT SLAVE TRADE HAD TO DO WITH WHAT EVERYTHING WE SEE TODAY. WHO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS REALLY WAS? WAS HE THE REAL ARCHITECTURE AND CREATOR OF AFRICAN AND ASIAN SLAVE TRADE IN THE NEW WORLD? DO......more

Goodreads review by Randall on August 21, 2015

Europe was short of food and realized it needed more spices from the Far East to use as food preservatives. Europe also needed an outlet for it’s own anger and feudalism had been only a lightweight enslavement. Columbus’s greatest achievement to Dr. Clarke is that he is the person who sets into moti......more

Goodreads review by RYCJ on December 05, 2012

An annotated perspective, primarily through citations, captioning the events that precipitated and nurtured slave systems. This certainly is the most condensed, 'familiar' version, of what I learned in the 70's about these historical events, and even more certainly makes for a nice source to use as......more

Goodreads review by Jason on February 25, 2021

"Let's look at it historically" "Why are we, a people whom so many have said have no history, pursued by so many other people? Why is it that we have been a prize to be captured down through the years? It is because of a prevailing thing that prevails right now. African people have been under siege......more