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Pharaoh Amenemhat 1 (Twelfth Dynasty), relief from his tomb et al.-Lisht, Egypt (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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Two recent documentaries promote a “Black Pharaohs” theme in which Kushite rulers overthrew the superior Egyptians and ruled Egypt (Twenty-Fifth Dynasty), but the Egyptians later erased their reign from history. This narrative undergirds The Rise of the Black Pharaohs produced by National Geographic and “Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs” by the S...
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... Because of the ambiguity in assigning race, the racial identity of the ancient , 1923). The specificity of language here that quantifies a so-called "measurement" of African ancestry was prevalent in US society at that time (for more, see Kendi, 2016;Williams, 2018;Crawford, 2021 the Indian blood predominates and the status of an Indian is generally accepted in the community" (Nobles, 2000, p. 72, also pp. 44, 58). ...
Amy Jacques Garvey and Marcus Garvey argued for the Africanity of ancient Nile Valley cultures, in direct opposition to some academics. In early 20th-century United States, incorrect narratives alleged that Africa had no history. The Garveys, and other Black intellectuals, looked to the Nile Valley to show the absurdity of that claim. The pan-Africanism of Garveyism instilled pride in African descended communities and united them against colonial structures. Pan-Africanism factored strongly in President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s conception of the modern nation-state of Egypt. Egyptian scholars from a variety of fields, including Nile Valley studies, continue to understand ancient Egypt as part of a network of African cultures. Keywords: Amy Jacques Garvey, Marcus Garvey, Gamal Abdel Nasser, pan-Africanism, Egyptology, Egypt
