Time for African heroes

A very important question for human family is not forget that many of our common elements and values in our modern culture have their origin in those earliest lands of Africa. Afro-American music (jazz, Caribbean, Brazilian), giants of Basket (players of NBA as Michael Jordan), immense football players (afro Brazilians as Pelé or Ronaldinho, an incredible Cameron footballer like Eto’o), world champions of boxing, first speed and distance runners... all them mean for us a big element of proud. Olympic Games offer many proves of it. U.S.A. has also many great people form this continent in their History.

Authorities of such prestige as Kofi Annan, Jomo Kenyatta, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King have made this world more human. Freedom - not only for European persons- was a gift obtained by those heroes of human history. It is the same in music and cinema. Famous actors as Denzel Washington - the first black actor to win the best actor Oscar, or Will Smith and lots of singers of plenty styles contribute to display their productions to all world.

Runoko Rashidi, an African History scholar, lectured his lesson last 17th April part of African world History. The thirty plus dynasties of ancient Egypt where also African. “Twenty-five of these dynasties were African, ranging from 3400 B.C. to the time of Alexander of Macedon,” Rashidi explained. “This has been proven with skin samples from royal mummies. These were all black people.”

A black skinned artifact of Tutankhamen in one slide had a connection with U.S. history. “When Tut came to the U.S., they left this [the artifact] behind,” Rashidi said. “Europeans want to claim Egypt for their own.” In closing, Rashidi told the audience, “We spend so much time trying to do in one month [African-American History Month] what everyone else does in twelve. It is time for us to develop our own heroes”.