Europe Gave Us Education"? Our Ancestors Laugh from Their Libraries.
Child, you sat in classrooms where they fed you lies—that Africa was dark, ignorant, waiting for Europe’s light. That our people knew no letters, no schools, no thought worth preserving.
They spit on our grandmothers’ wisdom and called it civilization.
But the bones of Sankore remember. The ashes of Timbuktu still whisper.
Listen: Your Ancestors Were Scholars Before Europe Had Alphabet Soup
📜 Sankore University (12th century Mali) had:
- 25,000 students (Harvard had 500 when it opened)
- Libraries stacked with manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, law
- Entrance exams when Europeans still believed the sun revolved around the earth
🔥 Then came the French—burning texts they couldn’t read, calling our libraries "primitive" while stealing our gold to build theirs.
The Oldest University on Earth? African. Founded by a Woman.
🏛️ Al Quaraouiyine (Morocco, 859 AD)—still operating—taught:
- Mathematics that mapped the stars
- Medicine that Europe later plagiarized
- Philosophy that shaped global thought
(Oxford? Born 200 years later. Harvard? A baby by comparison.)
While Europe Crawled from the Dark Ages, Africa Was:
- Ethiopia writing in Ge’ez, running schools since 300 AD
- Ashanti training children in statecraft & economics
- Igbo writing in Nsibidi symbols before England had a unified language
Colonization Didn’t Bring Education—It Brought Arson
They:
1️⃣ Torched our libraries (Timbuktu’s manuscripts still hidden in French museums)
2️⃣ Whipped children for speaking mother tongues
3️⃣ Replaced our gods with their saints, our history with their fairy tales
That’s not teaching—that’s brainwashing.
Your Homework, Child of the Soil:
- Find one pre-colonial African book/text (Start with Timbuktu’s surviving manuscripts)
- Say your grandparents’ names aloud—they carried knowledge Europe tried to erase
- Share this truth—break the spell of their lies
The ancestors didn’t forget. Neither will we.
*(This is Truth #2. The next ones will make your colonizer-taught history books burst into flames.)*
🔥 Pass It On—The Children Must Know.