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BEFORE THE WHITE MEN CAME The African used to Live

A LONG TIME AGO IN AFRICA The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated Mahatma Gandhi 1869 1948 BEFORE THE WHITE MEN CAME The African used to live off the land what with the rich plants animals climate and soil That was until the Arabs Then the missionaries After the colonizers the multinationals who finally culminated in the Bretton Woods institutions the African has never recovered and is still drifting backwards dizzily into the abysmal pit of diseases illiteracy poverty AND general backwardness Anonymous Northern Africa is the only part of Africa that has been in touch with European life during all the centuries from the time of Greeks and the Romans Even before these ancient peoples Egypt had been one of the earliest homes of civilized man Later in the middle ages came Moslems or moors followers of the Prophet Mohammed and they were building fine houses writing books and teaching many useful things while Europe was passing through its Dark Age The native peoples of Egypt and North Africa have ever since been Moslem Until the closing years of the eighteenth century for the greater part of Africa except North Africa it was said by Dean Swift Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps And o er uninhabited downs Place elephants for want of towns 



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