AFRICANS TAKE CENTER STAGE

FOR AN AFRICAN HISTORY THAT HOLDS WATER,
GIVE SLAVE RAIDERS AND SLAVE-OWNING PRODUCERS
THE PLACE THAT BY THE TIME OF THE CONQUEST
THEY HELD IN FACT

That suggestion opposes the (involuntary) assumption
that Africans were essentially victims, collaborators 
or opponents of whites --
that is, subordinates.

Western hegemony began only with slave emancipation 
-- the destruction of the producers' labor force --
and so has lasted for little more than a lifetime.

Giving those fervent, ferocious and dynamic predators 
their merited place suggests that it will pass.

Al-hajj Umar Tall on a Dakar wall / Internet, no photographer named

End of Part IV.

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Part V,
"The past is another country:"
Take pre-industrial France