All worldviews are founded on philosophies which are built out of theories which are essentially practical abstractions, summed up into a means of achieving a scientifically verifiable theory. 

Theory is tested, verified, systemized, and summarized practice, whatever its form or content.  A methodology is a system of principles and systematic means of organizing and structuring theoretical and philosophical inquiry.  Research designs are a systematic approach to studying phenomenology and processes of events and then interpret them within the framework of humanity, notwithstanding class, sex, and geo-cultural schisms within the global African community.   In this way, any new African worldview must have a method to guide its study and a philosophy/cosmology to organize its thought.

Essentially, philosophy is summarized theory. Method is the step-by-step, systematic procedures of arriving at that theory.  If the theory is scientifically substantiated, the method has to be scientifically valid, reliable, and repeatable.  The primary process-oriented method of the ancient world was to see research problems as processes that were unfolding in time and space. As a result, objective conditions were to be precisely studied, calculated, weighed, and measured in order to isolate the problem statement. 

• If any scientific problem is to be understood thoroughly, one must go to the very beginning of that problem. 
• Next, the conditions that allowed that problem to develop must be systematically examined. 
• In the process, every single stage in the birth, growth, and development of the problem---its natural metamorphosis---must be examined until the solution becomes clear. 
• The solution to any scientifically defined problem is accurate in proportion to the precision, validity, and reliability of the method used to research it. 
• Essentially, the problem statement, clearly defined, holds the elements of its solution within the problem statement itself. 
• Frame the problem statement accurately and the answer will be at the heart of the question.  As a rule, from inception to infancy to youth, through maturity, to old age, to death and eventually to replacement by something higher or lower, all processes can be researched holistically using interdisciplinary/intercultural scientific research. 
• Objective realities unfold in history.  Research must capture these processes in their entirety and thus become a reflection of this objective reality. 
• If this is accomplished successfully, the essence of the subject matter will be mentally replicated and, therefore, reproduced as in a mirror. 

The goal of scientific research, therefore, is to provide an exhaustive knowledge of the world---truth.  Truth is knowledge that accurately corresponds to objective reality.  Delusion is knowledge that does not correspond to reality.  There is a content of knowledge that does not depend on human beings, for it is determined by the external world, which exists independently of one' s ability to measure. 

European Correspondence of Fabricated Knowledge to Reality

In the 20^th century, empirically driven European philosophy, theory, and method culminated in the thesis of positivism and its anti-thesis---the Kantian-Hegelian/Marxist dialectical system. 

In these systems the entirety of socio-historical phenomena in its natural, historical, and intellectual form is represented via (1) isolated Eurocentric analysis based on "positive" evidence embodied in sometimes subjectively constructed variables and (2) unsystematic "dialectical" synthesis based on a sometimes opinionated assessment of a process, i.e., as in constant motion, change, transformation, development---accept when the "absolute idea" and communism is being studied.  In short the intellectual magnet was broken in half, posed and counter posed, isolated, and ultimately turned against the other.  In the 1990's, the social system that produced the Russian version of the Marxist dialectical ideology collapsed and therefore the Marxist system of thought collapsed with it. 

• § Today, there is an intellectual climate similar to the intellectual vacuum that Marx filled in the middle of the 19^th century at the time of the collapse of feudalism throughout Europe. The Kantian and Hegelian grand philosophical systems that mirrored moribund feudalist and nascent capitalist intellectual longings were being called into question. Kant had produced a critical analysis of the structure and types of human cognitive abilities, defined the regulative and constructive principles of cognition, and described the relationship between content and form.
• § Before Kant, Descartes' initial methodological principle was to subject all things to doubt in order to ascertain sound and reliable authentic knowledge. Descartes also developed the rules by which rationalistic methodologies were fashioned by demanding that only propositions that are clearly and distinctly comprehensible can be accepted as fact or true.
• § Before Descartes, Galileo and Newton ascertained scientific knowledge by synthesizing the deductive and the inductive methods based on planned, systematic and reliable mental and practical experimentation.
• § Earlier, Aristotle assumed that the object of true knowledge was universal and therefore applied the method of investigating individual empirical elements as to understand the universal. He also, among other things, established the rules of inference and proof, outlined the role of induction and deduction in ascertaining the truth, and provided a methodologically significant discussion of categories as the organizing elements of cognition.
• § Even earlier, Socrates, who gave priority to dialogical elements of thought via induction, saw the essential definition of concepts as a method of perfecting the art of living and in the process achieving virtue, and therefore his logical operation were influence by his ethical and moral aims. Socrates stood on the works of the Greek Sophists such as Protagoras who established rules of reasoning, essential proof, and the role of symbols and languages as a means of cognition, research, and cognitive activity aimed at acquiring knowledge by reliable means.
• § Before ancient Greece, KMTic researchers in what is now called Egypt over 3500 years ago, established the method of cross paralleled process-orientation via a battle of opposites, transitions from quantity to quality, regression before the leap forward, and the transformation or metamorphosis's of the phenomena. In short, the epistemological, and historical roots of scientific research methods and theory run deep into an African past. Ancient African Kmt is the source.

Overtime Eurocentric racism, summarized as the "Aryan Model" of viewing the world became an extremely well constructed ideological European worldview, which, in the process of Europe and its Diaspora ascending to world domination (1500-1900's), became an accepted worldview.  It is the capstone of a five-tier pyramidal scaffold in the ideology of White supremacist thought. 

It is the centerpiece of the ideology of the independent genius of the White race and White "Western Civilization."  The development of (1) prehistoric hominid formations, (2)  homo sapiens sapiens, (3) the intellectualization of homo sapiens sapiens, (4) the first class-based advanced forms of ancient society, civilization, (5) the most advanced forms of classical ancient society---all had to start with Europeans according to the mainstream Eurocentric education.  This is a standard operating procedure, even though there is no significant material evidence to prove any of it.

Nearly 500 years of intellectual careers went into evolving this fraudulent anti-history.  Rigorously, since as early as 1750bc, big names such as Friedreich August Wolf, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Hegel, Hume, Marx, De Gobineau, Barthold Niebuhr, Maspero, Breasted, Toynbee, all consciously or unconsciously had an early hand in furthering the misconception that everything, including KMT (Egypt), was a metaphysical mess until scientific Greece miraculously came along and created science, research methods, philosophy, mathematics, architecture, writing---everything of significance to world civilization. 

Greece did make great contribution to the forward flow of humanity.  In the centuries that they occupied ancient African Kmt, a civilization over 3600 years older than their own---they were at best translators, transferers, vectors, reverse engineers.  Their centuries of copying, and plagairism is without question.  This point is not an issue of debate.  What is significant is the fact that other populations, civilizations and cultures who's contributions have been marginalized historically also have made and continue to make significant contributions to human development.  The content of such distorted elements of social history is now under attack on an international level. 

To address to problem, all history must be studied afresh and rewritten by teams of interdisciplinary inter-cultural scientific researchers, the conditions of existence of the different formations of society must be examined individually before the attempt is made to deduce from them the technological, economic, political, social, cultural, civil-law, aesthetic, philosophic, religious, moral, ideological, and intellectual views corresponding to them.  Up to now little has been done here because only a few scientist have seriously approached the problem in scope and content. 

Even Europe's most free minds were fettered by the ideology of White supremacy.  Hegel was a moderate in his assessment of the "African Question," compared to most of his contemporary European counterparts in England, the United States, France, Portugal, and Spain.  He, being a historian on an imperialist's payroll, was merely summarizing, then justifying the fragments of a shattered African world. 

When he said that Egypt (was actually Kmt) was the reference point to which thought matter was passed from Africa to Europe (he says from its Eastern to Western phase) he was unconsciously reviewing the basis of Greek Hellenism and the foundation of what later became German philosophy.  This was, of course, a predatory transplantation of 4000 years of Kmt, then Egyptian summarized practices (theory) from Alexander in Africa to European Greece and later Rome, Western Europe, then Eastern Europe.  Africa, and specifically African KMT (Egypt) were left to rot as a mere social, cultural, and political corpse of what it had been and could have been if it had not been for the external invasions.

When Hegel viewed Africa as having no history and without movement, he was objectively viewing a death phase in his dialectic (birth-death-rebirth) as it would apply to an entire population and its societies.  He was looking at a dead social body that had lived and was killed and saying that it had never lived.  African civilization and the whole of African culture had been shattered, decimated, destroyed so that Arabia, western Asia, and Europe might have their "Absolute Spirit." 

From the crippling raids of Assyrians in 656bc to the "scorched earth" practices of the Persians under Cambyses (525bc) as he ordered destroyed "everything that revealed the greatness of Egypt," Africa was unceremoniously plunged into its own "Dark Age" or period of social and cultural collapse.  But the death of the African societies along the Nile River was unnatural and, therefore, in no condition to be resurrected in the rebirth of African societies on a higher level. 

As Europe went from communalism to slavery to feudalism to capitalism to socialism, Africa, on the other hand had its internal birth, death, and rebirth societal cycles crippled and ultimately decimated by external invasions form Arabs and Europeans.  When the slavery-based Roman Empire fell internally and was invaded by Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths and Goths (or "barbarian" Germanic tribes), White populations were invading White populations, thus, the culture would be preserved in a sublated higher social formation.  Northern Europeans were invading Southern Europeans. 

In the case of the Greek, Roman, and Arab invasions of African KMT (Egypt), the external invasions at the time of its decline and fall were just the opposite.  Europeans and Arabs invaded indigenous Egyptian (KMT) Africans; thus, only a destructive negation could and did result.  This is important.  There was no sublation, or rebirth, of African culture in a higher society.  Similar to the invasions of Rome by the "barbarian" Germanic tribes, the military force brought against Africans was also savage and barbarian.  If Germanic tribes who invaded Rome (410ad-500ad) were barbarians, as all of European history describes them, so too were the Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans who invaded African KMT (332bc-30BC).  They too were invading an advanced civilization, a civilization based on 4000 years of practical experience, which was more advanced in the arts and the sciences than the whole of Western, Eastern, Southern or Northern Europe.  But, African KMT (Egypt), too, had rotted internally thus leaving them prey for any external military invasions.

Hegel had freeze-framed Europeans in Greece after the invasions, after all of the cultural, social, economic, scientific, intellectual, and material loot had been garnered and translated using Rosetta Stone's and human translators.  In the 19th century, Hegel was looking at Africa and Africans after over two thousand years of direct colonization, enslavement, and decimation due to European and Arab predatory invasions.  From this he was saying that things have always been this way for them and for us.  Whites, therefore, in his and Marx's view had always been superior intellectually, and Africans had always been inferior.  Even though the factual empirical evidence indicated otherwise, these and other European philosophers firmly adhered to what Bernal in Black Athena called the Aryan model, or the fabrication of ancient and modern White intellectual superiority.

As the Arab invasions, beginning in 641ad, were made easy by the earlier devastation caused by Rome and Greece, the Northern European invasions were prepared as a result of the decimation caused by the Arabs.  In Africa, for generations people regressed as parasitic invaders and interlopers progressed at their expense.  They reached a point of social retrogression such that they could not adequately defend themselves against any invader.  Next came European 15^th century feudalist imperialism, capitalist enslavement, colonization, and neo-colonization---all in an evolutionary order after each prior form of parasitism had outlived its economic usefulness to Europe.

From First to Last; From Last to First

In sum, every struggle on the part of Africans had been an antithesis to European predatory struggles to benefit at their expense.  Until 500ad, England, most of France, Germany, and most of Northern Europe had no part, as Hegel would have to admit, in what he and others defined as "civilized" history. 

To be objective in his study of Africa and Europe, Hegel would also have to compare Ancient Greece and Rome to Germanic tribes in 200ad when he speaks of European "Western Civilization," which none of the people who looked like and talked like him had any knowledge of.  He would have to take a look at the White Huns, Angels, Saxons, Jute, Suevi, and Alans in the 5th century BC and ask himself why were they living at the entrance of "savagery" (based on his definition of Africans).  They were barbarians as all European history textbooks make explicit, even today.  If they could be restored to life in a rebirth of Roman and Grecian cultural principles and practices, why could not Africans go through the same dialectic?  Or did the dialectic only apply to White populations? 

In substance, Hegel and other Europeans were looking at a population of black-skinned people, Africans, that they and their ancestors had a direct hand in decimating, re-tribalizing, de-civilizing, and de-humanizing.  For seven centuries, the black Egyptian (KMT) population that remained in that Nile Valley region was overwhelmed in an unprecedented fashion by hordes of invading Whites and Semites. African civilization was shattered, gutted.   In the dialectic between first and last, the last (Whites) had become first and the first (Africans) had become last.  That process was completed with the 1884-85 Berlin Conference in which the entire African continent was divided piecemeal to any European who could get an invitation to the meeting.  In a 20-year period of "first come-first serve" almost an entire continent was torn up and parceled out by Whites.

From the period of ancient Greek colonization as witnessed and documented by eyewitnesses to the most significant individuals in ancient Greek history, that is, Greek Tragedies (Aischylos' The Suppliants, The Egyptians, The Danaids, Amymone, and Homer's, Odyssey; Herodotus' Histories),^[1]and the Phoenicians, Pelasgians, Ionians, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander, Thucydides, Solon, Pythagoras, Lykourgos, Diodorus, and others, it was common knowledge in ancient times that Greece imported the ideological raw material (thought matter)---both mystical and scientific---from a decomposing Egyptian (KMT) society, which was 4000 years its senior.  According to Diop in Civilization or Barbarism,

Egypt, even conquered, remained the venerable home of the sciences that she had kept secret for millennia.  Now, the barbarians had broken through the doors of her sanctuaries; she is conquered and will become by force the teacher of young nations, of the Greeks in particular: the Greeks miracle" will begin, as a consequences of the occupation of Egypt by the foreigner, Greek in particular, and therefore of the forced access to the scientific treasures of Egypt, of the plundering of the temple libraries and of their submission of the priests.^[2]

In 332bc, when the invading White Greeks marched into Africa, they merely took advantage of a favorable situation to garner in capsule form a philosophical basis,^[3] when there were, of course, no copyright laws.  They imported ready-made scientific knowledge.  They did not produce science in Alexandria; they translated and transferred it.  Alexandria in North Africa (KMT territory) became the base for transference of African knowledge to Europe.  This occurred at a time when all other ---invaders, the Assyrians, Persians, in particular--- sensed, as vultures, the decay and decomposition of a dying African KMT society which was moving into a "Dark Age".

By 900bc, African KMT (Egypt) feudalism was decomposing.  It was in the process of a "Dark Age" similar to the one that Rome had nearly 1000 years later.  It was in the process of internal decay as an African society when external invading European populations, which were at a lesser stage of social relations, attacked it and took it over.   Whereas Rome was overrun by other northern White populations, African KMT was raided and pillaged not by other African ethnic groups but by outsiders.  The internal dialectic of the evolution of indigenous societies in Africa was destroyed, similar to the external destruction of the Aztec, and Incas societies in Central and South America.           

With (1) ideal conditions, (2) proper means of destruction, and (3) thousands of mercenary conquistadors, Egypt (KMT) was quickly pillaged and colonized by Assyrians, Persians, Macedonians, Greeks, Romans and, today, Arabs.  As a result, each invading population busily picked through the rubble of this once proud and long-developing spiral of African KMT societies.  The series of indigenous African societies was broken.  However, it was only Macedonians and Greeks who had sufficient enough insight to extract that which would transcend time barriers and spiral in value and practical application as generations passed: kernels of scientific knowledge.  They were but an intermediary, a transmitter of thought-matter.  The fraudulent Greek "miracle" of genius must be seen for what it is: plagiarism on a societal level^[4] with Alexandria being a significant staging point, storage warehouse for stolen documents, and a transference center where African KMT and other subjugated peoples were forced to teach their murderous White colonizers everything that they knew. 

Essentially, a transplantation^[5] of the 4000 years of accumulated social consciousness, "the social brain" of a dying series of African KMTic societies took place, spanning the period 600bc-50bc.^[6]  Greece collected all of the "intellectual" loot of North Africa, Southwest Asia, and India.  Alexandria became the base for the storage and translation of these documents into the Greek language. The invaders would have had, first of all, to recollect materials for these sciences to work upon, again.  A certain amount of natural and historical material must be collected before there can be any critical analysis, comparison, and arrangement in classes, orders, and species.

The Black Africans in KMT, therefore, first worked out the foundations of the exact natural sciences 2500 years before Greece, Rome, and later European and Arab metaphysicians seized the torch of scientific extradition.  The analysis of the universe into its individual parts; the mastery of astrophysics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, geology, and mathematics; the grouping of the different natural processes and objects in definite classes; the study of the internal anatomy of organized bodies in their manifold forms; the classification of societies, their stages of development and other aspects---these are the fundamental conditions of the gigantic strides that modern Africans must make if African-centered theory is to build on what the ancient Africans of KMT (Egypt) have bequeathed the Black race.  In short, Greeks were not producing scientific theories---they were merely translating into Greek those documented theories that came as a result of colonial conquest in Africa and Southwest Asia.

By the time Rome took over from Greece, there was not much of anything scientific left to transfer from African KMT (Egypt), only grain and fruits, labor power in the form of slaves, and the religious aroma (or stench) of a thoroughly raped and subjugated culture were left.   They had stolen everything that could be transported back to Rome and destroyed that which they could not understand.  Invading Arabs would later throw out the Romans, (circa. 641ad), and rule, ignorant of the past history of North Africa, in much the same way as European invaders of North America claimed all things of world cultural significance as their own.

^[1]See Herodotus, II. 182, translation, p. 201; Herodotus, IV. 147-148, translation, p. 319-321

^[2]Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilization or Barbarism, 1990, p. 256.

^[3]Materialist philosophy is essentially summarized theory. Theory is summarized practice.  In sum, when one controls for the mysticism, religious rituals and fantastic legends, Greece was to garner, in what is now call "Greek philosophy", all of the general embryonic means and methods of science and social practice which would later be called "Western Civilization".

^[4]See Ver Ecke, Paul. Les Oeuvres Completes d' Archimede (Archimedes Complete Works) Albert Blanchard, Paris, 1960; Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Vol. I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, 1987; and Anta Diop, Cheikh. Civilisation ou Barbarie. Pre'sence Africaine. Paris, 1981.  In these works, the authors approach the question of history and anti-history head on, with explanations, but no apologies.  Greece and Kmt (Egypt) are at the core of perhaps the most significant historical fabrication ever, because from its conclusions the relationships between white and black populations are rooted in history being turned upside down in the period (650bc-50bc).

^[5]This historical transplantation was carried out in a condition similar to a modern-day nuclear bomb being dropped on ancient KMT civilization, and after the smoke, dust, and radiation had been cleared away Macedonians and Greeks went in and dissected that which was left of the brain of the society---expressed in its libraries, secret mystery systems, priests, and intelligentsia---translated it in to Greek language, using Alexander as a warehouse where stolen documents could be stored for easy assess.

^[6]We know, moreover that Pythagoras, Solon, Thales, Erastosthenes, Archimedes, and others were all trained in African KMT (Egypt). Over two-thirds of the Greek scholars to whom we attribute original thinking went to study in African KMT (Egypt).  The Hellenistic revival, the period of history that right-wing fascist Nazi and left-wing communist Marxist both agree was the flowering of Western Civilization, was centered in Alexandria.  Assembled there in Africa, were all the Greek scholars that are talked about with such reverence today, including Aristotle, that great writer of over 800 books on extremely different subjects in 15 years---in a period of history with no printing presses, and at a time when scientific knowledge took centuries to ferment (unless one tapped a source where it had accumulated for millennia and proceeded to secure it ready-made in the form of written, verbal, and symbolic ideological matter).  The fact that they were educated and trained outside of Greece, in African KMT (Egypt), cannot be overemphasized.  It is comparable to a blue population (1) studying superconductivity at M.I.T. in the United States whose population is green; (2) replicating in the form of thought matter the theories, methods and philosophies surrounding it; (3)  gaining what one came to get and translating it into a blue language; (4) then killing the green teachers,  destroying their green buildings, documents, and designs; (5) and finally appearing on the stage of history with an unprecedented assortment of scientific and meta-physic deductions and theories, yet no comparable scientific practices. 

In sum, the social sciences of the 21^st century cannot draw all of its philosophical, theoretical, or methodological essence from the past, but mostly from the present.  It cannot begin to mature in itself before it has stripped itself of all superstition in regard to the past.  This past was a racist, sexist, class-dominated past that for over five centuries saw Europeans devastate much of the non-white world.  Earlier advances in scientific research required romanticism about the world and its history; in essence European history was written as if it were world history and the only history of the world.  This will not move human history forward in this epoch.  In order to arrive at its own content, the revolution of the 21^st century must let the dead Eurocentric ideas of the past 400 years bury their dead.  In the past epoch, idealism and form dominated factual and empirical content; here the content must determine the form of expression. 

There are also partial correspondences of knowledge to reality, a knowledge that will be specified in the course of further cognition.  The goal therefore of a scientific research project is full correspondence of knowledge to reality, an exhaustive knowledge of the specific object under study, separating and synthesizing the elements, tendencies, connections, and processes as to arrive a resolution to one's initial problem statement.

                   CRITIQUE OF REACTIONARY ASPECT OF AFROCENTRISM

Eclectic Mistakes of Afrocentricism

Every science makes use of certain general concepts (categories); for example, the concepts of sense data, facts, empirical data, variables, constructs, conceptualization, deduction, induction, operational definition, and hypothesis.  In the specialized sciences we also have to do with concepts whose content is restricted to the given sphere of research. 

No scientist, whether she/he is a naturalist, historian, economist, or literary scholar, can do without summarizing the historical experiences of humanity's investigation of the world.  Scientifically documented historical experiences are the accurate raw materials of thought. Therefore, abstract concepts are no substitute for studying specific processes.  For starters, an approach suffused with the confidence of being rooted in the historical development of philosophical, theoretical, and methodological ideas is necessary. 

Second, an advanced approach must also be flexible and elastic in its collection, organization, analysis, and synthesis of ideas.  From existence we get to logic and not necessarily the other way around.  Human cognition can discover logical formations in reality only because the objects of cognition possess them in the first place.  Theory, therefore, is summarize practiced.  The material object of thought is, therefore, the object of some relative expression of reality.  Essentially ideas and real theoretical concepts categories are not more eternal than the unique historical conditions that they express.   In sum, the essence, the heart, the foundation of any concrete theory that is reflective of reality is practice. 

Practical verification is the fundamental raw material of scientific theory, whereas theory is the fundamental guide to practice.  Therefore, social philosophy, theory, or method (whether Afrocentric, Asian, Indian or Eurocentric) is measurable based on its actual practical application to reality.  Since every philosophy, theory, or method has its own material foundation in history, no matter how metaphysical the disguise in which they often masquerade, a truly liberating criticism has always involved improving the material conditions, which are at the very foundation of the social groups and the thoughts that they think. 

The new progressive humanist theories of the future will succeed not merely because they represents objective reality, are interculturally uplifting, morally sound, driven by justice, unrelenting in will, centered in historical intercultural values of mutual respect and commitment to human excellence, but also because they serve the needs of humanity and the social conditions which produce those needs.   

Liberating social philosophy, theory, and method becomes realized in a people only in so far as it is the realization of their real life needs.  In any society in which race, sex-sex/gender, class, and generation divisions give rise to conflicting needs, values, cultural forms and ideas, each race, sex-sex/gender, class, and generation sets itself up as a representative of the common interests of the entire society.  The ruling, race, sex/gender, class, culture and generation officially define what it means to be an American.  Therefore, each race, sex-sex/gender, class, generation develops a worldview and ideology, which it holds to be universally true and around which it seeks to impose as the view of the entire society.  Usually, the group with the force---the military, political, psychological, and intellectual might---rules.  Those who have power influence the gradual flow of history: they write the books, they make the videos, and they finance mass media versions of the reality as they see it. 

Each class has a view; each ethnic group has a view; each sex/gender has a view; each generation has a view; each culture has a view.  Possessing and being able to articulate historical or cultural information are not enough.  Debating intelligence is not enough.  The question is: What historical legacy and class, gender/sex, race, culture, and generation worldview does the idea represent? 

If not scientific, it is not replicable, and thus merely an ideologically abstract means to a speculative end.  Since the formation of humanity over 5.5 million years ago, and the subsequent development of settled class societies with sex/gender, class, cultural, ethnic, and generational divisions of labor, human societies have revolved around the production, distribution, exchange, consumption, and reproduction of the necessities of life and the power, which those possessions allowed.  Humans are continually improving the quality of the tools they use in earning their living.  The possession of the new productive technologies and the invention of the new methods give a natural advantage over those who still live by the old means.  The ethnicity, class, sex, or generation, which has control of the new forces of production, has power, economic/technological power, a power, however, which is hampered by the cultural, traditional, political, and legal property relations which express the earlier forms of material production.

To reduce theory and method to a list of examples, criticisms, definitions, concepts, and analogies is to reject the principle of objectivity and resort to speculative, eclecticism, and subjectivity.  For example, in some areas of the positivist social sciences, and in the reactionary aspect of the Afrocentric movement, the most widely used and fallacious method of research is to isolate and randomly tear out individual minor facts, dissect them independent of the social context that gave birth to them, string together some analogies, then juggle this biased concoction with examples and "expert" references (and in some cases if the researcher claims Afrocentricity, sprinkle in some Swahili terms). 

This way of thinking is based on eternal unalterable concepts and formulas regardless of the new data of practice and science and the specific conditions, ignoring the processes own unique creative development.  This is not proper research because isolated facts selectively presented as variables and torn out of context are merely subjective constructs for mental juggling.  Reducing objective social processes to arbitrary patchworks of culturally, racially, class, and sex/gender biased variables and testing them in an abstracted imaginary context may be published in mainstream presses, but such publications maybe of no objectively scientific value, because each fact, each conceptualization, each variable, each analogy, each example grows out of some historically evolved concrete situation that must be summarized in its entirety if one is to bring to life---mentally reflect/reconstruct---the process in one's mind that is taking place in reality. 

Therefore, a holistic approach to social research problems requires that one extract the process itself and then deduce from it its essence after logically summarizing the unfolding process.  Minor facts, subjectively transformed into variables, arbitrarily selected and tested out of context from the conditions that produced them, are amputated fragments of a total reality---a reality which must be painstakingly taken apart then pieced back together as to ascertain the object's laws of development.  Inferences can be drawn, but conclusions from such studies are never final; not can they be comprehensive in scope and content.

Mistakes to Correct; Directions to Change

Africans have a real (but fractured) cultural relationship with ancient African KMT, but have wastefully failed to not unearth, redeem, resurrect or restore this fundamental necessity of life.  Why else do most Africans have White and Arab names, clothing, architecture, religions, family organization, governmental systems, holidays, calendars, education, philosophies, science, theory, method, hair styles, habits, beliefs rather than independently rooting their very existence on their great ancient KMTic foundation?  Why else do most African-centered thinkers waste whole careers trying to prove that Africans helped to build white and Arab civilizations (civilizations that ultimately invaded and destroyed indigenous African Civilizations) instead of focusing on the necessary redemption, resurrection, and rebuilding of African civilization using KMT as its foundation?

If intellectual and practical self-reliance is a necessary goal of any liberated population, essentially, modern African researchers must restore their own worldview, critically cleansing it and linking it to its indigenous African roots.  This is the necessary foundation of an indigenous scientific system of thought and practice.  By proceeding from the latest scientific discoveries and the sum total of historical experiences of humankind, African researchers can develop modern African-centered thought into a scientific system of theory, philosophy, and methods consistent with the best that modern world progress and science have to offer.  The present system of Afrocentricity is flawed conceptually.  The best of it must be preserved and that which is obsolete must be discarded.  This new African-centered world view must be rooted in ancient KMT, not merely because it is at the heart of the world scientific and moral systems at thought, but because if modernized, it can become an all encompassing system of modern African scientific and moral thought.  The ancient must be synthesized with the modern.  That synthesis could, therefore, include the continuity and critical acceptance of all the advanced progressive elements already attained by human scientific and spiritual practices---encompassing the best that Europeans, Asians, Arabs, Indians, and others have offered humanity.  Independent thought and action does not negate collective methods of gathering data from all sources.  The objective laws of science are color, class, race, and sex/gender-blind.  However, this is not to be confused with how science is used by different classes, ethnic groups, sexes/sex/genders and cultures.

In the same manner that organic life materialized and developed from a preexisting ocean of matter and antimatter, water and carbon molecules, inanimate and animate cellular structures, and in the same way that thought emerges from a preexisting ocean of objective conditions that are transformed into forms of thought, collected as sense data and examined to be facts, so too must any new African scientific method manufacture itself out of the preexisting advanced contributions to science, regardless of the race, class, sex, culture or generation that made the discovery.   Today, African scientists must study and critically assimilate the modern achievements of science, synthesize the positive achievements in human knowledge and, in par­ticular, critically absorb the rational elements of the best that Western Civilization and science have offered the world.  Next, the African-centered scientist must methodically KMTize (based on the cultural foundation laid by KMT) this accumulated scientific information with indigenous African language, symbols, names, concepts and meanings.  From such a synthesis, the fractured modern system of alien thought that dominates African attitudes and behaviors can be discarded and replaced with an indigenous new African scientific worldview synthesized with the best that the modern world has to offer.   

The principle of using antecedents, building upon the best that human science and spirit has to offer, and a will toward justice translated into research methods means to menially reproduce an object in thought in all its objectivity and concreteness by cognizing it in development in its accurate history.  The patterns of nature demand that an inherently unobservable realm temporarily exists.  Many have called this the spirit realm.  However, that which is measurable must be carefully measured even thought it is clear that science can never know all and absolute truth is unattainable.

They all, in their own popularized manner, have taken an aspect of the problem of reconstructing African history and carved out significant measures of intellectual progression in psychology, ethics, history, art, literature, religion, mathematics, language, idealistic philosophy, theology, medicine, and sociology. 

Not one, however, has championed scientific research methods and the application of science along with "spirit" to solve material world African problems.  Almost as if in fear of stepping outside of their Judea-Christian and Muslim alien heritage, they have only flirted with meticulously dispensing with speculative, reformist, mystical, and miracle seeking ideology.  Generational, alien cultural and class constraints restrict their ideological breaks with their oppressors' worldview.  Nowhere is it evident that Afrocentricity has an independent scientific research method to guide its theories, methodologies, research designs, quantitative assessments and qualitative summations.  Nowhere is it evident, outside of Diop and Obenga, is it evident that they are willing to stop soaring into sustenance-less fantasy above the grinding world that the masses of impoverished Africans are forced to live in.   Therefore, modern African youth must summarize intellectual contributions of these integration era scholars, extract the advanced elements, place them in their historical context, reestablish the natural relationships between the concepts that they discuss and the objective reality that they are suppose to reflect, and draw deductive and inductive inferences---discarding the mysticism, speculation, and contemplation.  The younger generation of morally sound, scientifically prepared African scientists will objectively meet this challenge.

In sum, overall, the progressive aspect of Afrocentricity (manifested in its highest form African-centeredness) is an understandably slow, methodical process that appears to be well meaning and principled.  But there are significant unsubstantiated mystical and idealistic claims that distort the concrete march of Diop's last will and testament of establishing a scientific foundation for the resurrection of African Civilization by developing scientific research teams to scientifically assess the new and old data through African-centered (Africanized) eyes and mindset.  Far too many progressive African researchers rip apart matter with spirit and take the side of empty spirit devoid of internal material manifestations of human will.  Their internal strivings, their internal drives, their unrelenting will is independently in their own control.   They seem to be waiting on gods and spirits to help them---to do something that they and the African mass are already capable of doing if they only applied themselves fully in this world, independent of witchcraft and smoke and mirrors.  Ancient African KMT was a unity of opposites when Assyrians, Persian, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and later waves of Europeans invaded the continent.  KMT civilization was already in the process of decomposition.  Africans from the interior of the continent were not historically prepared to preserve the rational and progressive aspect of ancient KMT culture and civilization; Whites and Arabs from the North were prepared.  They won; Africans lost almost everything in a cruel life and death war of races, societies, populations, cultures, classes, sex/genders, and generations.   KMT in its highest manifestation of intellectual and moral progress before the invasions merged science with spirit in a complementary manner.  Spirit was manifested, however, in material practice, just as material practices were driven by internal wills, KA, and vital forces.  

Finally, even in a fierce life and death struggle where even the "supreme-ist of the supreme" (Asar/Aset) are defeated and dismembered, only the youthful, brave, prepared, driven, supremely conditioned will of Heru with the use of scientific help (Djehuti) could overcome the evil, murderous rule of Set.  The internal war of opposites itself was seen as positive when directed toward the progress of KMT civilization.  Clearly, then, the religious trapping of those brought up under Islam, Christianity, Judaism or any of the other oppressor theological belief systems cannot continue to cripple the will-driven spiritual manifestation of material force in the morally sound aspect of the African population. 

As Dr. Obenga and Dr. Diop have continually stated, Africans must seize control of their own material and spiritual life forces, independent of the mystical trappings of the oppressor. Maat Science seeks to strengthen the scientific foundation of African-centered philosophical, theoretical, and methodological content.  Africans must free their minds.  Today, African philosophers, overburdened with catching the White man in lies, cannot immediately take up the scientific task of synthesis of the vast amounts of emerging data on the Black experience, the real flow of Black history. 

Any critical assessment of a theory should be made by using a method of assessment that is reflective of the application of the new theoretical framework to the problem of analyzing and synthesizing reality.  As there is negative in the positive, there is positive in the negative.  Traditionally, in the reactionary aspect of modern African-centered thought, scientific assessment of reality is dominated, not by independent scientific assessment of factual data over time, but often by mystical incantations of obsolete speculative Christian-Islamic dogma whose scope rarely leaves the idealistic discussion of abstract spirit, religion, White critiques of history and God-Allah.  Lacking power, they seek spirits to fill the void.  The weight of a history of domination holds the key to this problem.

Since the early 1980's, the male dominated core of reactionary African-centered scholars has been uniformly informative and committed to certain individualistic short-term goals.  Armed with slides and slide projectors, pamphlets and books, photographs and drawing, overhead projectors and computer LCD's, and resumes of achievement, notoriety, and acclaim these men and a few women have accurately critiqued Eurocentricism and exposed the "lie agreed upon," called mainstream European history and social science.  The lobby, seeking credit for ancient Africans having nursed Western and Eastern civilizations to their place of dominance and imperialistic control of the modern world order, ironically spent little time using the findings that verify the advanced nature of ancient African civilization in the Nile valley to reconstruct and modernize indigenous African language, dress, food production, architecture, transportation, music, federal government, morality, law, family organization, social structure, economic structure and the entire cultural complex that they say transformed barbaric invading populations from Europe and Arabia into the powerful intellectual giants that they are to day.  Instead of using ancient African civilization to redeem, resurrect, and restore African world civilization to its former greatness, they spent the lion's share of their time attempting to integrate their contributions for the benefit of Greece, Rome, Arabia, and others.

These behaviors are understandable in the context of race, class, culture, sex/gender, and generation analysis of the Afrocentricists who are creating and disseminating this thought matter.  Their primary objective, based on their deeds, is the belated integration of the nationalistic wing of the African American middle-class intelligentsia and its unique class thought matter and thought processes into the mainstream of White academic and educational institutions.  After all the criticizing of the Eurocentric bastardization, omissions, lies, slanders, and plagiarism they prescribe all the dependent, integrationalist, trite, Eurocentric, liberal, neo-colonial, welfare, reparation-seeking, blame-the-oppressor for tokens to the middle-class, bluff-and-get-paid-for-silence solutions that have failed us in the past.  All their proposed methods, techniques, solutions, programs contradict their cultural analyses. 

 Clearly, they do not understand that the objective conditions that led to integration in the United States (1945-1980) have run their course.  The end of desegregation, affirmative action, set-asides, small-scale racial tolerance is a reflection of the end of the greatest period of economic expansion in US history.  The beginning of re-segregation, disintegration, overt racial hate and White militias, racial intolerance, and White male set-asides is a reflection of the massive contraction of White economic conditions and the reactionary White mass response.  Even the integrationist viewpoints of the reactionary aspect of the African-center movement are a direct reflection of their intellectual formation in the 1950's, 1960's, and early 1970's.  Therefore, apparently every significant fact of African history must be used by them to show how Africans influence the growth and development of White civilization: (1) KMT helping Greek, Roman, and Arab invaders to take North Africa; (2) North African Moors helping Western European Spaniards, Portuguese, French, and Englishmen to become civilized; (3) indentured Negroes helping Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and British conquers (Columbus, Pizarro, Cortes, Balboa, De Leon, Coronado, Courtier, etc.) to pillage, rob, loot and commit genocide in the Western Hemisphere and the world; (4) Negroes as "Buffalo Soldiers" killing indigenous people as to secure land for Whites, during and after a civil war that Whites controlled and organized.  The integration of the exploited with the genocidal deeds of the exploiter is the reactionary immoral equivalent of seeking credit for helping a convicted murderer.