Islam. 

I finally was able to track down the video... rather videos of this lecture.

The lecturer is Howard Nicholas. He is the senior lecturer of economics at the International Institute of Social Studies. He gave this lecture October 14, 2015 in the HAGUE - International Institute of Social Studies. 

I am going to leave the original clip... but I am going to put PART 1 and PART 3 of the full length videos underneath. I could not get PART 2 because the link was private. 🤷🏾‍♂️  I will keep looking.

The lecture is called The Role of Economic Policies and International Institutions in the "Underdevelopment" of Africa.

You want the truth?

PART 1

PART 3

The introduction of contemporary European History in stark contrast to the actual history of humanity has been one of the greatest deceptions of modern times. Even the fact that the first Europeans were not the so called "white" people we see today... and in that regard... are not the original people of the earth. 

That's a deeper discussion... but it does set the tone for this particular topic. It is the modern European's version of their history that created Africa... and the African.

The narrative that humanity started in Africa isn't based in actual truth. The continent that we know today as Africa has not always been called by that name. In fact... the ancient people of that land had no concept of Africa... or continents.

Modern day European History teaches that all so called black people descend from the so called African race... or one of the so called African races.

In the United States... so called black people are reduced to being the African descendants of slaves and have forced to accept various designations of identity (Indian, negro, colored, black, African American etc...) without knowing the true history of our so called African ancestry due to chattel slavery. 

The deception is real.

When we think about Africa... we think of a vast continent. When we think African... we think of the people who inhabit Africa. The so called African people are an amalgamation of nations... each with a distinct nationality to denote their country of origin.

However... when we examine the name Africa itself... we come away with a very different conclusion. Africa has had many names in the past... and the perpetuation of the narrative that it has always existed as Africa... and that all the people of that land have always been Africans is flat out not true.

Let's begin with truth.

Africa did exist... as the Roman Province Africa Proconsularis established in 146 BC after the Third Punic War when Rome finally defeated Carthage.

Africa Proconsularis was situated in what is today present day Tunisia, the northeast of coast of present day Algeria, and a part of the northwestern coast of present day Libya. Africa Proconsularis was inhabited by the Mauri... who are the Carthaginians...  who are the Phoenicians... who are all Moors.

etymonline.com entry for Africa (n).

Carthage was located within the Roman Province Africa Proconsularis - "land of of the Afri".

After Publius Cornelius Scipio's defeat of Hannibal Barca-Bey in the Second Punic War in 202 BC at the Battle of Zama, he took the name Publuis Scipio Africanus... taking the name of the "Afri" people of the region... not the continent. 

It is a common misconception that the "continent" we now call Africa was named after Publius Scipio. Publius' brother... Lucius Cornelius Scipio took the name Lucius Scipio Asiaticus after his military success in Asia. Lucius did not name Asia.

Front/Back of a coin depicting General Hannibal Barca- Bey and the elephant.

​Upon further research... you'll find that the singular form of the (plural) Afri is Afer. The etymological entry for Afer goes back to Latin... and then to the Punic meaning "Carthage".

It is said that the Phoenicians encountered an indigenous  people in that region... and the term Afer is an ethnonym derived from the Punic "afar" for "dust" or "earth"... most likely meaning "people of the earth". 

In the Berber language... it is related to the term "ifri" meaning cave... most likely denoting the people were "cave dwellers".

It is also closely related to the Hebrew "apar" meaning "dust".

Today the Afar people live in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti.    

Afer in the Latin first and second declension is an adjective in the singular nominative case. In the plural it is Afri... and it means from Africa... Proconsularis... the Roman province (the area of modern day Tunisia).

Afer as a proper noun is masculine... in the genitive case... "Afri" and is Latin second declension meaning  a Carthaginian of the Roman Republic (Africa Proconsularis) ... and is also a cognomen applied to the natives of that province.

Also during the time of Septimius Severus... who was a Moorish Holy Roman Emperor of the empire that reigned from AD 193 to AD 211... lived a Roman playwright from Africa ( the Roman province... not the continent as we know it today) named Publius Terentius Afer. Afer designating he was a Carthaginian of the Roman Province Africa Proconsularis of  the "Afri" people.

​According to Herodotus' "The Histories"... the name of all the land from the western border of Ancient Egypt... aka Tameri... to the western border of what is today Morocco... was called Libya. Herodotus lived during the 5th Century B.C. After Rome. ​

Further research will show that in antiquity...  Marmarica (known then as Libya Inferior) was situated on the Egypt's western border (Libya's eastern border today). Cyrenaica in antiquity was known as Libya Superior... and was to west of Marmarica... and that the waters north of Cyrenaica and Marmarica (the south Mediterranean today) was called the Libyan Sea. 

​Going back further into Tameri (Ancient Egypt) you will find that Ramesses II named the Libu (rbw in hieroglyphics)... a Berber (Moors) people as constant invaders of Egypt. Ramesses II rule began in 1279 B.C. ... which by the way predates Rome.

Look at Chapter 1 Section 4 of the Negro Law of South Carolina. Who is the term slave CONFINED to... in parenthesis (the ancient Berbers).  

Negro Law of South Carolina

Here is a little more Roman influence.

Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources.

​Cheikh Anta Diop attributes Alkebulan as an even earlier name of Africa. Among other names were Ethiopia, Corphye, and Ortegia.

So are we truly Africans?

​Peace.