Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This semester, the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department is taking a leave from teaching, electing to spend the term writing and hosting an international film series celebrating the seven wonders of the African world...
...face it--so many people in the West view Africa through two dominant images: poverty and flies are one, and disease is the other," Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. said in an interview. "I wanted to do a series that would talk about the glories of the African past, the truly great monuments of human imagination in Africa...
...said that he hopes to expose average American and British citizens to the African continent...
...scientific consensus that ancient Nubia, beginning in the Stone Age, developed its own distinct civilization--or rather, a series of overlapping civilizations--influenced by Africa, Arabia and the Sahara as well as by Egypt. Moreover, many scholars believe these Nubian kingdoms hold even more clues to the origins of African culture than does Egypt, which, because of its unique position abutting Asia and the Mediterranean, is regarded by many archaeologists as having developed independently from the rest of the continent...
...years ago, Bonnet excavated a funerary temple in Kerma that powerfully illustrates Nubia's synthesis of frontier influences. On one interior wall he found Egyptian motifs, including Nile fishing boats, bullfights and an enormous crocodile. Another wall was covered with rows of giraffes and hippopotamuses--African wildlife rarely seen in ancient Egypt...