Inter-African Mutual Historical Familiarization
A parallel demarche should also be undertaken at the level of History -- Archaeology. It is impossible to speak of an African Renaissance and underestimate the serious problems deriving from the vast ignorance every African has of the other Africans, every African state has of the other African states, and every African nation has of the other African nations.
While there are presently in Cairo more than 15 (fifteen) European archaeological schools and institutes focusing on Egyptology, Coptology and Islamology, and undertaking excavations, publications and other related activities, there are no Nigerian, South African, Algerian, Moroccan, Cameroonian, Tanzanian or Sudanese archaeological schools and institutes based in Cairo and specializing in the said fields.
Similarly, in many other African countries, there are European, American, Canadian and Australian research missions and institutions specializing in local archaeology, history, social anthropology, linguistics, etc., but there is no Egyptian archeological school in Nigeria, no Moroccan archeological school in Sudan, no Ghanaian archeological school in Tanzania, and no Angolan archeological school in Mali.
Solving the aforementioned divide is precondition to the popularization of the inter-African knowledge and mutual comprehension. African Specialists of African History, Archaeology, Religion, Literature, must be formed in the first place, by means of scholarships and studentships linked to post-doctoral research and employment in institutions specializing on other African nations.
Only then, the African countries that will first undertake such programs will be able to have accredited authors to properly write about true African History, Art History, Philosophy, Literature, Religion and Folklore for the manuals of the primary and secondary education, for the university manuals, and for the general public (books, newspapers and magazines).
Only then, the African countries that will first undertake such programs will be able to have internationally accredited scholars able to contribute in great numbers to the international academic publications and periodicals, and even outnumber the European specialists on Africa.
Only through the formation of the aforementioned background, e.g. an entire new African educational class, African languages like Somali, Hausa, Amazight, Oromo, Arabic and Igbo will be in a position to be offered as optional foreign languages for the schoolchildren of the primary and secondary education in diverse countries like Zimbabwe, Senegal, Uganda, Madagascar and Gambia.
Only this development can effectively reduce African academic, educational, linguistic, cultural, artistic, intellectual, and sociopolitical dependence on the colonial states of England, France and America.
To the aforementioned many other programs can certainly be added; folklore interconnectedness and reciprocal knowledge, religious -- spiritual interconnectedness and reciprocal knowledge, artistic interconnectedness and reciprocal knowledge, educational -- academic interconnectedness and reciprocal knowledge, intellectual -- philosophical interconnectedness and reciprocal knowledge, and so on. These developments will herald an economic interconnectedness of wider scope with common infrastructure projects in Transportation (Inter-Saharan railway and highways, Mediterranean -- Cape Town railway and highways), Energy (inter-African Energy Market), and Tourism. This will subsequently herald the rise of a true African Union which will be at the antipodes of the present, homonymous scheme of tyrants, gangsters, and genocide executers that is shamefully based in the capital of the world's most abominable tyranny, Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia).
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