Until the Story of the hunt is told by the Lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter–African Proverb
African Holocaust (Est. 2001) is a non-profit civil society dedicated to the progressive study of African history and culture. The society is composed of African scholars and writers, who share the desire to represent and restore an authentic, reflexive, honest, plural, and balanced study of the African experience, past and present.
We collate work from different areas of study and provide sagacious analysis to educate, empower, and enlighten. Enhancing the visibility of African history and culture, while adding clarity from an African ethical and cultural standpoint. African Holocaust Society does not at any stage advocate binary history or propaganda: The facts remain the facts, while the analysis is within African paradigms. As Malcolm X once declared, “of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.”
History is not the past, therefore history is not permanent or fixed. History is not a scientific fact either, especially ancient history. No one says history, present, or future. They always say past, present, and future. Because history is the selective snapshots of the past written by the hands of the victories in the blood of the vanquished. History is only relevant to those living and ALWAY made to service modern agendas. .
We reject all manifestations of oppression (From South Africa to Palestine), ignorance, racism, globalization, monoculturalization, cultural imperialism, gender suppression, religious intolerance (Islamophobia, antisemitism, etc), and ethnic hatred. We create new opportunities for the potential of marginalized people by addressing institutional racism, which has stymied hope and multicultural contributions.
African Holocaust does authentic in-house research. We use primary and secondary sources. We went to Sudan and Egypt for African Kingdoms, we went into the libraries of Timbuktu, mosque in Ethiopia for Islam and Africa.
Our mission is to produce accessible bodies of work, which inform about African culture and history, within an institutionalized and African-cultured framework. And within this framework, we believe that African people should be the primary authors of their history and economically profit from their cultural capital. It is hoped that this work will also serve as a multicultural dialogue to share and expand the African cultural/historical experience with the wider World community. Our study of Africa is not a romantic enterprise, but moreover intended to enrich humanity through fostering plurality, and reinforcing the sanctity of life. We believe that only via the principles of self-determination and agency can African people globally continue to contribute their unique cultural experience to the forward flow of humanity
Inequity steals the hopes of people by marginalizing the potential contributions from a majority sector of humanity. The cure for AIDS, the cure for Cancer, the mission to Mars, the next Bob Marley, the next Malcolm X are trapped in a village somewhere in the so-called Third World. Trapped by institutionalized racism, trapped by the policies of the World Bank, trapped by a corrupt leadership. The biggest untapped resource is not in the ground, It is in the people but this future is stolen because of the injustices of this world.
Critical African History
Progressive African History maintains that African people should be agents of their own history and the dominant voice in African history. This history must conform to the African cultural paradigm while at the same time meeting the highest threshold of good scholarship. This however is separate from continuous viewing history through the political or racial lens. History must be looked at in connection to our modern-day social dynamic but it must also be weighted within its time period. We must not superimpose modern thesis onto ancient history.
While there is a natural bias inherent in all interpretations of historical events the primary objective must be:
1. To seek truth
2. To learn from the past and absorb the spirit of human possibility
3. To honor the moral obligation to remember
Media has generally been very derogatory of African people. The African voice, culture and history is shown through European eyes. In order for equality to be served, all people must begin to freely tell their stories and must own and control these stories. Self-determination demands that people be active agents in how their image and history is represented in a multicultural World. Culture and history are the property of a people; it is a birthright.
THE MAAFA ARTWORK
Why do we not call people in Africa, especially in the 17th century, “blacks”? Why do people use the term enslaved and not slaves in referring to the people who would go on to be enslaved in America? Because they are not “slaves,” they are oprresed people in a state of slavery! Their status as human beings has not been altered. The people in Africa went by many names: Ewe, Fon, Fulani, Asante, Igbo, etc. Collectively, they were native people of Africa and hence Africans. Those people, for the purposes of enslavement, were renamed BLACKS! A very dehumanizing thing todo. It was important to do it because it would have been hell on Earth to enslave people in the Caribbean islands like Tridad if you kept calling them Africans! What natural question would they be asking? What is this Africa, and how the hell do we get back there?
When in Africa, the concept of a continent called Africa was not relevant! Everyone had their own kingdom or whatnot. The Muslims had theirs, the people of Dahomey had theirs. Africa became significant to the Diaspora, who had none of that!
I am going to jump forward a little. If you want something from the Palestinians, you can break their bodies, but you cannot break their identity. They will not answer to Arabs, Brown people, or Goys, or anything other than Palestinians connected to the historical land of Palestine, which goes back into deep antiquity. Makes no difference how you try to rewrite that history; they will forever be defensive to the death!
Identities are connected to something TANGIBLE, not crayon colors
Part of our enslavement meant the destruction or Holocaust of our African identity. Now look at the picture below, and you will see what I just wrote in art form. The blending of our identities into a single African identity. At the top is a child being held above the Maafa, that child is going to one day Sankofa to a journey interrupted.