At the beginning of 2021, I posed the following statement to my Instagram followers, "If you can't name more than three famous Black people before chattel slavery, then you've been miseducated." The reaction to that statement highlighted the fact that many of us don't know the history of Black people outside of the lens of oppression.
This statement inspired me to create a series of posts on Instagram titled "Afrikan Heroes." For each day of February, I shared historical facts about a person of Afrikan descent whose contributions to their society helped shape the world we currently live in.
The series was such a hit with my followers, I decided to turn it into an Ebook for digital download. Ladies and gentlemen, this is that Ebook.
In this Ebook, I'll be covering 28 Afrikan minds that helped shape the world we now find ourselves in. 28 Afrikan minds that rarely get discussed during so-called "Black History month."
As you move through this eBook, you might run into some historical figures you were taught about in school but had no idea they were "Black" or had relatively recent Afrikan ancestry. This isn't by accident. There has been a calculated attack on "Black" history and theft of influential "Black" people over the past millennia. This constant attack and theft of "Black" achievements predate the Mafa (Transatlantic Slave Trade), but historians have pointed out that this attack and theft was ramped up during the Mafa partly to justify the enslavement of Afrikan people and those of Afrikan descent throughout the diaspora.
This eBook is an attempt to reclaim what is rightfully ours.