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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ETHIOPIAN OCEAN: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF EURO-AFRICAN RELATIONS BRONZE AGE-PRESENT:
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ETHIOPIAN OCEAN: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF EURO-AFRICAN RELATIONS BRONZE AGE-PRESENT: in Bloomington, MN
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What happened to the Ethiopian Ocean?
How could one ocean endlessly mentioned from Antiquity until the 17th century vanish in African and European memories in a matter of three centuries? Before the Atlantic Ocean which borders the Angolan coast was named as such, it was originally known as the Ethiopian Sea or Ocean. Yet, it has disappeared from most modern minds when ancient maps revealed a much more agitated African history than one thought.
By removing the Aethiopian Ocean from African history, Eurocentric authors and historians simply erased the everlasting impact of Central Africa in the development of Western Europe. Often, when talking about the influence of Africa in ancient Europe, Egypt, when not whitewashed, remains the only power evoked due to the acceptable blackness of its inhabitants. However, the place of "sub-Saharan" Africa is never talked about as the individuals were not easy to whitewash and to pass off as European. This book explains how, since ancient times, the Kushites, also known as Aethiopians, a dark skin and Negro-African people were the center of all ancient European attention in politics, culture and economics.
In reality, the development of Western Europe from Antiquity until the 21st century could have never happened without the exploitation of Central African resources.
The ancient European powers always had an obsession with Kush and Central Africa due to the natural resources located there, in the modern region of the Great Lakes, such as gold, diamonds, uranium or iron. If Kush/Nubia was the last great and strong black African power to have resisted Arab invasions in the 7th century, it was greatly diminished by the Ottoman occupation in the 15th century and the gradual replacement of the Kushite population by foreign black groups indigenous to the Middle East and later adopted Kushite traits when not being Kushites in essence at all.
By erasing the Sea, the European colonizers destroyed the Central African legacy in world history. Until this day in the 21st century, Western powers are still plundering ancient Aethiopia, especially the Democratic Republic of the Congo to further their technology and perpertuate a colonial system which has been put in place in 332 BC when Alexander the Great colonized Egypt and Canaan.
How could one ocean endlessly mentioned from Antiquity until the 17th century vanish in African and European memories in a matter of three centuries? Before the Atlantic Ocean which borders the Angolan coast was named as such, it was originally known as the Ethiopian Sea or Ocean. Yet, it has disappeared from most modern minds when ancient maps revealed a much more agitated African history than one thought.
By removing the Aethiopian Ocean from African history, Eurocentric authors and historians simply erased the everlasting impact of Central Africa in the development of Western Europe. Often, when talking about the influence of Africa in ancient Europe, Egypt, when not whitewashed, remains the only power evoked due to the acceptable blackness of its inhabitants. However, the place of "sub-Saharan" Africa is never talked about as the individuals were not easy to whitewash and to pass off as European. This book explains how, since ancient times, the Kushites, also known as Aethiopians, a dark skin and Negro-African people were the center of all ancient European attention in politics, culture and economics.
In reality, the development of Western Europe from Antiquity until the 21st century could have never happened without the exploitation of Central African resources.
The ancient European powers always had an obsession with Kush and Central Africa due to the natural resources located there, in the modern region of the Great Lakes, such as gold, diamonds, uranium or iron. If Kush/Nubia was the last great and strong black African power to have resisted Arab invasions in the 7th century, it was greatly diminished by the Ottoman occupation in the 15th century and the gradual replacement of the Kushite population by foreign black groups indigenous to the Middle East and later adopted Kushite traits when not being Kushites in essence at all.
By erasing the Sea, the European colonizers destroyed the Central African legacy in world history. Until this day in the 21st century, Western powers are still plundering ancient Aethiopia, especially the Democratic Republic of the Congo to further their technology and perpertuate a colonial system which has been put in place in 332 BC when Alexander the Great colonized Egypt and Canaan.
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