Africa: The Cradle of Civilization

They call us the Dark Continent. But how can I be dark when the sun has never left my

skin, when light itself is born from my womb? They call me Third

World. But I was the first. The first cradle of civilization. History books were

rewritten to deny that truth, shifting African genius to the West. An intellectual

commotion from minds not enlightened enough. Some even reduce me to a “nation.”

They said we were backward. Backward? Before their castles had windows,

we built empires of gold in Mali. We raised stone cities in Great Zimbabwe.

We lit deserts with the knowledge of the Timbuktu libraries. The pyramids were never mysteries,