Saturday, 26 October 2024

HISTORY LESSON

Did you know that the Nile valley has more than 200 ethnic groups? Many of these ethnic identities have a unique language and in precolonial times were governed using a de-centralised commonwealth system either based on age sets or elected senates (meaning councils of elders). The academic assumption that Egypt and Sudan only had two ethnic groups - white Egyptians and black Nubians - is based on a white supremacists view of identity. In reality from the Nile delta in the north all the way to Uganda in the south, many ethnic groups lived along the Nile and this is reflected in the diversity of self-adornment practices, physical features and skin tones. The automatic assumption that humans with a black skin tones in Egypt were not Egyptians is rooted in colonial era assumptions and is not based on the internal evidence or genetic evidence from academic studies.

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