The de-Africanization of ancient Egypt required sustained institutional effort. It didn’t happen accidentally.

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Sony Thăng

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The de-Africanization of ancient Egypt required sustained institutional effort. It didn’t happen accidentally. Paintings were described with vocabulary that systematically lightened the subjects. Geographical connections between Egypt and Nubia, between the Nile Valley and the rest of the continent, were minimized in curricula. The Nubian 25th Dynasty, during which Kushite pharaohs from what is now Sudan ruled Egypt, was treated as a dynasty of foreign invaders rather than as part of the continuous Nile Valley civilizational complex to which it belonged. The Nile was treated as a corridor pointing toward the Mediterranean, away from Africa, rather than what it geographically is: a river running through the African continent, connecting African civilizations across thousands of miles. All of this required choices. Choices made by specific people in specific institutions with specific stakes in a specific conclusion. The conclusion being: the civilization we want to claim as the root of our own cannot belong to the continent we need to have been empty. That conclusion was decided first. The history was arranged around it afterward.

9:08 PM · Nov 14, 2026

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The sentence "Africa had no civilization before European contact" was never true. It was not even close to true.

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Sony Thăng

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The sentence "Africa had no civilization before European contact" was never true. It was not even close to true. It required ignoring Egypt, which any map confirms is in Africa. It required ignoring the Kingdom of Kush, which conquered Egypt and ruled it as the 25th dynasty: Black pharaohs from what is now Sudan, ruling another African civilization the West most wanted to claim. It required ignoring Axum, which was a major world power in late antiquity, with its own script, its own coinage, its own trade networks reaching Rome and Persia and India. It required ignoring Mali and Songhai, which at their peaks controlled more territory and more gold than most contemporary European kingdoms. It required ignoring the Kingdom of Kongo, which had established a powerful and centralised state, with its own capital, political institutions, taxation system, and extensive trade networks, long before the Portuguese arrived in the late fifteenth century. It required ignoring Great Zimbabwe, which European archaeologists initially attributed to Phoenicians, Arabs, anyone, before the evidence forced an acknowledgment that Africans had built it. It required ignoring Timbuktu, with its universities and its hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, its scholars producing work on astronomy, medicine, law, and mathematics while Europe was in its medieval period. It required, in other words, an extraordinary act of sustained collective will. A decision, made and remade across generations of scholarship, to not see what was there. That decision was not innocent. It was not ignorance. It was a choice made in the service of a story. A story that needed Africa to be empty. Because a full Africa made the colonial project something other than civilization arriving where there had been none. It made it something that required a different name.

8:44 PM · Nov 14, 2026

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Netanyahu may have no more than three to four weeks to complete his lifelong dream: To get the US to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.”

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Netanyahu may have no more than three to four weeks to complete his lifelong dream: To get the US to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.” He has never been closer to this goal, but time is running out. If Gadi Eisenkot succeeds in forming a government in the next few weeks, Netanyahu will lose the premiership and his chance to destroy Iran. A rising chorus of former and current Israeli officials - from Avigdor Lieberman to Ehud Barak - are sounding the alarms that out of desperation, Netanyahu is planning to “carry out a blatant military provocation in order to force Iran to respond on a scale triggering a war that would disrupt or prevent the establishment of a new government [in Israel].” These are not my words, but those of Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, writing in Haaretz. He continues: “For months I have warned publicly that the prime minister is behaving like a wounded animal and that he will not hesitate to disrupt the election, refuse to recognize their results or even launch a war of deception in order to ensure his political survival." Read in full: https://tritaparsi.substack.com/p/geopolitical-chat-14-q-and-a-session

4:09 AM · Nov 15, 2026

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