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Title

Egypt, child of Africa / edited by Ivan Van Sertima.

Publication

New Brunswick, [N.J.] U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, c1994.

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Additional Authors

Van Sertima, Ivan.

Description

484 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Series Statement

Journal of African civilizations ; v. 12

Subjects

• Black people > Egypt > History
• Egypt > Civilization > African influences
• Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

pt. 1. Editorial [African origin of ancient Egyptian civilization] / Ivan Van Sertima -- Dr. Chancellor James Williams (1893-1992) : an appreciation of his contributions to the reconstruction of African civilization / by Runoko Rashidi -- Nile genesis : continuity of culture from the Great Lakes to the Delta / Charles S. Finch III -- The racial identity of ancient Egyptian populations based on the analysis of physical remains / Keith W. Crawford -- Egypt is in Africa but was ancient Egypt African? / Ivan Van Sertima -- Black land of antiquity : a brief historical outline of dynastic KMT / by Runoko Rashidi. From the center to the fringe : the persistence of racial myths in physical anthropological theory / by Runoko Rashidi. The myth of the Mediterranean race / Dana Reynolds-Marniche. Bringing Maat, destroying Isfet : the African and African diasporan presence in the study of ancient KMT / Asa G. Hilliard III. The Sixth Napatan Dynasty of Kush / Peggy A. Brooks-Bertram. The problem of the Bernal-Davidson school / Manu Ampim. Ra-Hotep and Nofret : modern forgeries in the Cairo Museum? / Manu Ampim. Seven times seven : comprehensive discourse on the seven Hermetic principles of ancient Egypt / Wayne B. Chandler -- pt. 2. Editorial--Part Two / Ivan Van Sertima. Tribute to a departed scholar--Alexander von Wuthenau / Ivan Van Sertima. Book reviews: Introduction to the study of African classical civilization, by Runoko Rashidi / Wayne B. Chandler. Predynastic Egypt, an African-centric view, by James E. Brunson III / Regina Blackburn. Exploding the myths, volume I, Nile Valley contributions to civilization, by Anthony T. Browder / Wyatt Tee Walker. African presence in early America, Ivan Van Sertima, editor / George F. Carter. Egypt and the Mountains of the Moon, F.D.P. Whicker / Anthony Richards. Blacks in science, ancient and modern, edited by Ivan Van Sertima / J.W. Gunn, Jr. Research news and notes: Skull in Ethiopia linked to earliest man / Ivan Van Sertima. On the naming of continents / Ivan Van Sertima. African smallpox inoculation introduced into early eighteenth-century America / Ivan Van Sertima. African-American scientists played major role in atomic bomb development / Ivan Van Sertima. World's oldest paved road found in Egypt / Ivan Van Sertima. Royal ships of the pharaohs / Runoko Rashidi. The infant mummy of Uan Muhuggiag / Michael J. Carter. Redating the Sphinx / Manu Ampin. "The" scientific method from Kemet to Greece. Correspondence. The Newtonian synthesis in physical science and its roots in the Nile Valley / John Pappademos. Mathematics and engineering in the Nile Valley / Beatrice Lumpkin. Nile Valley origins of the science of the mind / Na'im Akbar. The symbolism of the crown in ancient Egypt / Richard D. King. Kemetic concepts in education / Asa G. Hilliard III. The Voodoo gallery : African presence in the ritual and art of Haiti / Ivan Van Sertima. My Gullah brother and I / Ivan Van Sertima. Trickster, the revolutionary hero / Ivan Van Sertima. Interview and overview : Dr. Ivan Van Sertima (1991 interview) / Kwaku Lynn. History as a guide to modern political action / Ivan Van Sertima.

Call Number

Sc D 01-860

ISBN

1560007923 (pbk.)

LCCN

94061756

OCLC

32116056

Title

Egypt, child of Africa / edited by Ivan Van Sertima.

Imprint

New Brunswick, [N.J.] U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, c1994.

Series

Journal of African civilizations ; v. 12

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Van Sertima, Ivan.

Research Call Number

Sc D 01-860