Conclusion: Continuity and Futurity—Ancient Africa Survives

Abstract

Pan-African and Afrocentric scholars and activists have been engaged in revolutionary movements to assert the legitimacy of Africa’s contribution to world civilization from the evolution of human existence to the present. The process involves, eliciting the wealth of information—philosophies, science, arts, technology, leadership—that resides in orally transmitted knowledges, the ancient scripts of Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, and Nubia, and dissecting dominator accounts to disentangle Africa’s truth. As an African woman whose ancestors were stolen from the continent of Africa, I write this conclusion from a reflective standpoint. There is the notion of “IF” that runs through it. What if, there was no slavery? What if the people who were uprooted from the continent knew their ancestral land, their blood relatives? What if the continent of Africa was not fragmented through various models of colonization? Regardless of the deliberate acts to deny, deface, disgrace, and disconnect the African history from its peoples, ways have been found to preserve and restore it. African culture is bolstered by the belief that it cannot be erased. Despite the excessive amounts of resources that the West has invested to deny and obliterate the achievements of continental Africa’s past, the curiosity of its scattered populations has remained persistent in revealing Africa’s truths for our dignity, survival, and liberation.