Originally posted to Lucumi by Runoko Rashidi, we present the obituary of John Henrik Clarke. The complete original can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20041014213827/http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/clarke3.html THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY H I S T O R Y N O T E S JOHN HENRIK CLARKE’s AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL OBITUARY By DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Posted by RUNOKO RASHIDI Posted…… Continue reading Obituary of John Henrik Clarke
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John Henrik Clarke’s History is a Clock
The quote below is from the documentary A Great And Mighty Walk on the life of legendary scholar and teacher Dr. John Henrik Clarke. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of…… Continue reading John Henrik Clarke’s History is a Clock
The University of Sankore at Timbuctoo: A Neglected Achievement in Black Intellectual History
If the University of Sankore had not been destroyed; if Professor Ahmad Baba, author of forty historical works, had not had his works and his university destroyed; if the University of Sankore as it was in 1591 had survived the ravage of foreign invasions; the academic and cultural history of Africa might have been different…… Continue reading The University of Sankore at Timbuctoo: A Neglected Achievement in Black Intellectual History