HAPI Talks with Professor Robin Walker about “What’s new in

[anansi]

Hello good people pls pls view this very informative vid lecture by educator Robin Walker , the recreations by Polish archaeologist of Christian Nubian monasteries and homes is stunning the palaces of West Africa some of which we showcased on Let’s Discuss Ancient and Medieval Africa and other spaces, but those pics simply don’t do it justice especially when dealing with the amount of space, rooms and functionality , pls take some down time it’s about 1:40:00.

[zarahan]

Great find. Some informed folk know about the giant earthworks of Benin but the
buildings from Mossi and Kong, etc are new to me. He also makes the great point
that the classic "big five" black Afro scholars- Diop, CLarke, Williams, etc are starting
points not the final word. They laid some good foundations, but things don't stop there-
knowledge in the field has moved on and interested students have to tap into new
developments- they need not read every obscure article or journal but have some awareness.
Along with new knowledge this may also mean confronting extreme ideologies- such as arguments
that "nobody but blacks" were in Egypt until the Greeks arrived. I told one person holding
such views that they were setting themselves up for failure with extreme claims -
making it easy for racist detractors to debunk them. Just war captives brought
into Egypt from Palestine or Lebanon from various ancient military campaigns undermined
their whole spiel about a "pure" black Kemet. And there were always foreign-origin merchants,
slaves, nomads etc. But then again some of these extreme claimants might be agents setting up
fake "Afrocentric" strawmen to easily "refute." Anyway as Diop said back in 1974: