Cee Bee’s Podcast

It his episode Ceebee is reading an article written by John Henri Clarke. THE distinguished Afro-American poet Countee Cullen began his I famous poem "Heritage" with the question: "What is Africa to me?" In order to understand Africa and its place in world history, we must extend the question by asking, "What is Africa to the Africans and what is Africa to the world?" There is a need to locate Africa and its people on the map of human geography. Our own great historian W.E.B. DuBois tells us: "Always Africa is giving m something new. . . . On its Black bosom arose one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of self-protecting civilizations, and grew so mighty that it still furnishes superlatives to thinking and speaking men. Out of its darker and more remote forest fastnesses came, if we may credit many recent scientists, the first welding of iron, and we know that agriculture and trade flourished there when Europe was a wilder- ness." Dr. DuBois tells us further that "Nearly every human empire that has arisen