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  “It's a forum to have our own space and to be able to exist. To be our most creative and open selves and everyone is accepted.”                                                  - Elyse Hines.    Why is Afropunk so important to blacker America? because as an experience, it symbolizes everything the African race has been fighting for, for hundreds of years: the power of Self-definition. The ability to see, describe and express ourselves in a manner unique to us. No history lesson is required to understand that identity has constantly been either torn from, or imposed on us for more than 'a while' now, Afropunk is that space where black bodies reach within and blossom in different forms. This Pixel Tour unravels this powerful phenomenon through imagery. <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbyg...

AFRICAN ORIGINS OF ANCIENT ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS. According to the “Out of Africa” hypothesis, all people of today have inherited the same mitochondria from a woman who lived in Africa about 160,000 years ago, so named Mitochondrial Eve. The Y chromosomes possessed by all men was inherited from a man who lived 140,000–500,000 years ago, probably in Africa. This man is known as the Y-chromosomal Adam. This fact is pivotal in understanding Africans' place as ancestors of all humanity, and architects of the world's first civilizations. Early China. The Blacks of China were known in historical literature by many names, including Negro, Austroloid, Oceanean by the Europeans. The East Indians and Mongoloid groups had other names for these Blacks such as Dara. Yueh-chi. Yaksha, Suka, and K’un-lun. Lushana and Seythians.  It’s been over  100,000 years ago  since m odern humans left Africa.  Indeed, the modern Chinese have African origins, their ancestors having migrated t...

         This article belongs under our 'Pan-Afropedia' content category which is designed to house a wide and diverse library of articles by original African thinkers, home and abroad. Placing emphasis on knowledge over popularity, we collaborate with, reach out to, and feature both well-known writers and the lesser. Let us be your platform, email us via afrorealitytruth@gmail.com for a chance to feature your articles at A.R.T. This article is written by  Narmer Amenuti, you can reach him on his social media page, with the same name, on Facebook. Why Africans Pour Libation; Aliens Don’t. What we accept as “civilized” in a colonial and neocolonial era needs scrutiny. In order to understand the point of pouring libation we must delve deeper into the interstices of traditional African philosophies. It is there that the link between civilization and the pouring of libation are firmly established. The essence of civilization from an African fulcrum r...