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February 25, 2016

Commentary

The Importance of Understanding Egypt is in Africa

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The removal of Egypt from Africa serves a twofold purpose. First, it leads to the obvious idea that Egypt is not a part of Africa; therefore, its population could not have been Black. Secondly, it serves the purpose of implying that civilization did not begin with the Black race.

Until recently, there had been a scholarly debate among European intellectuals, as well as some Blacks, on what they referred to as the peopling of ancient…

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