African Legacy : Solutions for a Community in Crisis Book

List of Maps          

Introduction: Inventory of a Stricken Africa     

PART ONE: The Victimization Paradigm     

Chapter I: Slavery: When Africa Sold its Children    

1. The Real Nature of the European Slave Trade     
2. The Muslim Slave Trade       
3. The Myths of Slavery       
4. Abolition: Humanitarian vs Economic Causes     
5. The Island of Gorée: A Small Example of a Big Distortion    

Chapter II: Colonization: Good Deeds, not Good Business     

1. The Role of Left-Wing Ideas in French Colonialism:    
2. British Colonization: A Reluctant Enterprise     
3. “We Germans Don’t Need Colonies”      
4. Effects on the Colonizers      
5. The Belgian Paradox       

Chapter III:  The Balance Sheets of Colonialism and Decolonization  
1. The Real Colonial Balance Sheet       
2. French Decolonization        
3. British Decolonization        
4. Decolonization and the other European Powers     

Chapter IV: Science Analysis of Afrocentrism     

1.  Fact vs. Fiction       
2.  Claims to “Negro Nations and Nulture”      
3. The Story Behing Negro Egypt       
4. The Heritage of Cheikh Anta Diop       
5. Martin Bernal and Black Athena       
6. The Myth of a Return to Africa       

PART TWO:  In Support of an African Renaissance     

Chapter V: The Peoples of Africa       
 
1. African Before the Blacks        
2. Nilo-Saharan, Afrasian, and Pastoral Migrations     
3. The Expansion of the Bantu-Speaking Peoples     
4. The Interlakes Melting Pot        
5. How Southern Africa Was Populated      
Chapter VI: The Real Shifts in Africa’s Fortunes    

1. “The Victory of Caravels over Caravans”      
2.  The Defense of the Dominated and the Downfall of the Dominant   
3.  Reversal of Balances of Power       
4. The Aftermath of the Cold War       

Chapter VII: Ethnic Groups: The Pivot of African History   

1. Definitions          
2.  The Colonial Role in Ethnic Evolution      
3. The Ethnic Migrations of West Africa      
4. Nigeria and the Congo Bloc        
5. The Kingdoms of the Cow and the Spear      
6. The Peoples of the Horn        
7: The Truth About the Creation of  the Merinas     

Chapter VIII: Answers to the Africa Question     

1. European Anxiety, African Schizophrenia, and American Neurosis  
2. The New American Awareness       
3. The American “Liberal” Solution: “Trade Not Aid”    
4. The African “Liberal” Solution: NEPAD      

Conclusion:  Steps to a Real Resolution      

Index