Every ideology, once it has arisen, develops in connection with the given concept-material, and develops this material further; otherwise, it would not be an ideology, that is, occupation with thoughts as with independent entities, developing independently and subject only to their own laws. No doubt the fraudulent misconception of world history presented by Eurocentric and Arab centric researchers is being overthrown by the re-emergence of Africa on the stage of universal history.  But this process is unfolding at a snail's pace in a time when the emerging "nazification" of European conservative thought is being driven by economic, political, and social decay of capitalist and socialist societies around the world.  

Because the vast majority of the social science and cultural information about the world is not accurate, but is usually biased in the favor of the class, race, sex/gender, and culture that rules the material and intellectual means of creation around the world.  Therefore, those members of the human family who descended from Europe, Arabia, and Asia and who benefit from maintaining the status quo world order produce the volume of the billions of pieces of information. 

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.  Over 600,000,000 murdered in the holocaust of African enslavement over a 500 year period tells us that the enslaver's guns, germs, and steel (their material culture) won out practically every time.  Africans with bone, bows, arrows, sticks, animal skins, and very few scientific institutions lost practically everytime, and lost practically everything including their own skins.  Only African Kmt balanced science/technology and spirit properly thus allowing them to hold off the white/semite invaders for well  over 6000 years until 656bc.  Today's African intelligentsia, accept for the Diop/Obenga/Armah trend in thought, wastes too much time talking and writing about nothing---mystical mess eclectically thrown together with slavemaker's religious filler when they run-out of factual evidence.   This has never gotten Africans anywhere, except thrown into a shark's teeth/jaw or worked to death on a degenerate white/arab slave plantation. 

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.  

In the last analysis, the material life conditions of the persons---their material class, sex/gender, race, culture, and generation---inside whose heads this thought process goes on determine the course of the process.   "Afrocentricity," a concept disseminated by Dr. Asante and others, has laid a foundation for Africans to see the world through their own eyes, free of racist and chauvinist mentorship.  The center of the social universe is the human being that has a perspective on the world-a worldview.  That worldview manifests itself through the prism of race, class, gender/sex, culture, and generation.  Independent thinking human beings symbolically summarize the world that they view differently, given their ancient culturally genetic historical ways of organizing space, time, mass, matter, and motion.  Since the destructive invasions of ancient African KMT, Black civilization has been decimated and the worldviews of the invaders have dominated the indigenous view of the oppressed African world population.

Generally, the African mind (and body for that matter) has not been free of European and Arab domination since ancient African KMT, over 2700 years ago.  Science in its purest and most universal symbolic form is objective, but it is not neutral in the hands of a dominating population; it has been used to oppress.  Since Cheikh Anta Diop in the 1950's, almost single-mindedly initiated the intellectual offensive against African servility to and domination by non-Africans, the task of re-establishing the scientific African way of studying phoneme has been progressing.  There have been fits and starts.

Since 1980, Dr. Moleif Asante has defined Afrocentricity (or African-Centeredness), literally, placing true African ideals at the center of any analysis that involves African culture and behavior.   A similar effort to undertake the critical study of the philosophies of the past has been led by Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. Theophile Obenga, and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.  These African thinkers have made significant contributions and mistakes, along with Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Drusilla Dungee Houston, Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, Marcus Garvey, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Maulana Karenga, Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. Jacob Carruthers, Dr Asa Hillard, and others who have initiated a new beginning for creative African thought. Out of this core of African-centered thinkers, the advanced works of Diop and Obenga are the scientific foundation on which a clearer picture of the multidimensional quality of African science and spirituality is being built.

In the United States, Van Sertima has single-handedly succeeded at of establishing an international journal, the Journal of African Civilizations, which rehabilitates and redeems African civilization throughout the world.  The technical, scientific aspect of the African-centered movement stands on the broad shoulders of many scientists who have contributed to this journal.  Maulana Karenga has spent at least 40 years reestablishing the cultural and moral foundation of ancient and modern African civilization.  He even completed a second doctorate in the process of reconstructing the moral principles of ancient KMT summarized in Maat. In addition, Dr. Tony Martin and Dr. Leonard Jefferies have been passion scholar-advocates of the African case in both speech and print.  

These contributions represent significant advances from the past lights that shine bright on the path to resurrecting the scientific foundation of African philosophical thought.  The majority of these thinkers appear to be seeking truth.  And many have advanced the cause of accuracy in historical thought.  But the ideas all of these thinkers are not yet in motion; they are lifeless, broken pieces that in fact express partial truths counterpoised against the lies in Eurocentric history books.  When put together these critiques of White historical fabrications bring into focus the beginnings of the shatter worldview which has been lost to the Black race for well over 2700.  This is not enough to develop a scientific method of assessing reality.  All scientific theory is best defined by its method---the method of achieving the theoretical conclusion. 

Drs. Obenga and Diop

Diop and Obenga have a stated step-by-step methodology as a basis for arriving at their conclusions.  Clearly, one cannot have theory without a method of achieving theoretical conclusions.  In regard to Diop and Obenga, their philosophical grounding in method is linked to their intimate understanding of KMT science and spirituality.

As a result of the tireless scholarly efforts of Obenga and Diop, the lost KMTic tradition is now being rediscovered. But as with anything unearthed from a long slumber, it has a lot of muck and mire to throw off, a lot of dead weight, a lot of misunderstanding, a lot if cobwebs.  Today, African-centered philosophy, theory, and method philosophy embryonically stands on its head when it attempts to leave the safe confines of criticizing Whites for lying and distorting history.  When it seeks to define its form it is merely critical of Whites and Arabs for racist lies.  However, when it seeks to define its content, its theory, method, and research design, it stands idealistically on its head.   It clearly has dispensed with efforts to go into meticulously purely astrophysical, physical, chemical, biological, anthropological, social, economic, political, and cultural processes of the birth, death, and rebirth of African Civilization.   Therefore a higher system of thought must be fashioned out of the best of Afrocentricity.  This system of thought must have a defined method of research, and a real-world theoretical framework for systematizing and testing elements of the worldview.

Criticism is hard work, but this is only the initial raw material on which a truly advanced philosophical science, a great African worldview, a system of African scientific thought can be firmly constructed.  Accurate historical facts are a beginning.  But, they must be put in order; they must be logically summarized; the scientific conclusions must be drawn from research; and the Vital Force, the KA, the driving mechanism, the unity and struggle of opposites must be understood as to follow the birth, death and rebirth of the process in higher forms.   No mysticism and baseless speculation are permitted. 

Afrocentricity is an evolving ideological process of great cultural significance.  It will run its course in the arena of struggle between ideas.  As in any system of thought, there are opposing aspects within and between internal and external elements.  Racist Eurocentricism is the external opposite of critical Afrocentricism.  But within Afrocentricism there are opposing elements.  There is the element that deals with the factual correction of the documentary record, the exposing of the Aryan/white supremacy mis-educational system in place, and the need to correct lies by whites and Arabs written as if they were laws of nature.  There is the element which is trapped in an idealistic, eclectic intellectual shell, which discards the real and rational kernel of this "struggle and complementariness of twin opposites within the same unity" for a mess of mysticism, absentee slavemaker god worship, and useless chanting when people down on earth need food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, health care, and worthwhile employment.   Each twin opposite develops in unique historical conditions; they have a period of birth, death, and rebirth.  Nothing is absolute in this process; all reality is transitional and transient as it operates in time, space, and motion dimensions.  There is an order to the expression of all matter and spirit in history.  Reality, if it is to be understood, must be organized as a process unfolding as opposed to presenting some accidental features of a process torn out of context and used to challenge White thought as a whole. 

Here, all-around assessment of the process of the complementariness and struggle of twin opposites is discarded and is replaced by an informal combination of the process' features without consideration for step-by-step ordering, classification, magnitude, historical relationship, or importance or overall significance.  There is an order to all things---the order that the thing unfolded in history.   One must always be careful to preserve the advances in science and thought, and discard that which is moribund or no longer scientifically verifiable. 

African Scientists/Spiritualists

One can be a pure scientist and a pure spiritualist (such as Imhotep) driven by an unrelenting material and spiritual will toward justice.  Materialism, the force of matter in the sensed world, and spiritualism, the invisible internal free will of the object, are complementary.  Science can be used for destruction or construction, injustice or just.  Spirit does not drop from the sky.  If it is something the Africans can consistently use, it must be concretely defined in this world so that any oppressed African can apply for immediate practical measurable results on some level.  KMT understood that matter and spirit are one, but matter is sometimes dominant, in equilibrium or subordinate.   In fact, the four primary systems of KMTic cosmogony, the Theban, Heliopolitan, Hermopolitaina, and Memphite---initially have significant materialistic essences and eventually take on their spiritual expression:

According to these systems, the universe was not created ex nibilo, on a given day; but there has always existed an uncreated matter, without a beginning or an end (the apeiron, without limit and without determination, of Anaximander, Hesiod, etc.); this chaotic matter was, in origin, the equivalent of non-being, because of the sole fact that it was unorganized: thus, non-being is not, here, the equivalent of nothingness, from which would rise, no one knows how, the matter that would be the substance of the universe.  This chaotic matter contained at the archetypal state (Plato) all the essences of the body of the future beings that, one day, would be called into existence: sky, stars, earth, air, fire animals, plants, human beings, etc.  This primordial matter, the nous or the "primordial waters," was elevated to the level of divinity (called Nun in Kmt cosmogony).  Thus, from the start, each principle of explanation of the universe is doubled by a divinity, and as philosophical thought developed in Kmt, and more particularly in Greece (materialistic school), the latter replaced the former.

          Primitive matter also contained the law of transformation, the principle of the evolution of matter through time, equally considered as a divinity: Kbepera.  It is the law of becoming that, acting on matter through time, will actualize the archetypes, the essences, the beings who are therefore already created in potentiality, before being created in actuality. (Thus Plato's "the Same and the Other," the theory of reminiscences, etc.; and Aristotle's matter and privation, potentiality and actuality, etc.).

Thus, carried by its own evolutionary movement, eternal matter, uncreated, by dint of going through the stages of organization, ends up by becoming self-aware.... Up to this point, the Kmt "cosmogony" is materialistic in essence; for it is a process of materialistic faith when postulating the existence of an uncreated eternal matter, excluding nothingness and containing its own principle of evolution as an intrinsic property (Diop: 1991, 310-311).

Dr. Diop, being a scientist by training, points to the essential material foundation of KMTic thought from its beginning.  Dr. Diop must be handled with careful analysis and synthesis.  Many African American scholars have carelessly and mystically criticized the works of this great scientist without knowledge of the practical research that went into drawing each single scientific conclusion.   Just as matter is nothing without spirit, spiritualism is nothing without matter---its material medium for expression.  Educators who cut their intellectual teeth in the historical period of integration, the peace movements, and liberalism in the United States (1945-1970's) have misunderstood the ancients in their idealized quest for an absolutely harmonic and peaceful Africa before the White and Arab destruction.  Diop and Obenga do not make this eclectic, idealist, and mystical error in logic. 

Factually, there has never been such an absolute "harmonized" state in all of human history, and certainly not in Africa.  Peace and war are relative.  Harmony and war are relative to conditions of the internal and external relationships between twin opposites.  In fact Africans in KMT were not unified with Africans in Nubia even when the initial murderous invasions of Hyksos occurred over 3500 years ago.  Otherwise, invading Whites and Arabs would not have had such success in ripping apart the very fiber of life for billions of Blacks who have had to, as a result, live and die miserable lives for thousands of years. 

Equilibrium is at constant war with disequilibrium in KMTic thought and practices.  In fact, after Set defeated Asar, dismembered him, scattered his essential life parts, forcefully stifled his wife's unrelenting will to justice, only his youthful war-prepared son, Heru, with the help of Djehuti (science and knowledge personified) would ultimately win out in a life and death battle of spiritual wills and material force.  Justice, therefore, wins out over injustice with the force of will and material weapons.  The world is only harmonious in continuous struggle.   When the struggle ends, absolutely, the entity dies.   Nature in its macroscopic galactic form and its microscopic particle form verifies this deduction on a daily basis.

The universe is at war with itself, and it is also at peace.  Anytime a star explodes after developing over 10,000,000,000 years, the entire solar system is destroyed, including the planets where organic life has managed to win its existence.  The AIDS virus kills because it disarms the body's natural immune system so that it cannot fight opportunistic invading diseases.  Just as justice fits itself for existence via struggle and victory over injustice (Heru over Set), so too does injustice.  Material and spiritual will determines the outcome; there is no predetermined fate (that has been verified), no gods helping the Whites and Arabs to invade and murder the Africans and then helping the Blacks get petty forms of integration into the invader's societies.  There is no evidence to support this mystical idealism. 

White and Arab injustice has won out in this material world, in material practice, in the past 2700 years, because they have shown more life and death will (united with advanced science) to struggle to impose and maintain their slavery and injustice against Africans than Africans have shown for their own freedom and justice.  Summarize history.  There are winners and losers.   Whites and Arabs have won; they enslaved over 200 generations of Black populations, stole their land, destroyed their civilization, and plagiarized their scientific ideas.  Black people must organize and liberate themselves; this is winning.

Every second, material force meets material force and the aspect that is most prepared and has been bequeathed the ingredients for success wins out in a life and death struggle.  The binary system in computer science, mathematics, meteorology, physics, chemistry, sociology, psychology, government, electrical engineering, biology, and astronomy, all confirm fierce struggles of opposites in material reality.  This is science.  In the social history of human interaction, there are those who do what is necessary to win, even if it is toward an unjust end; and there are those who do not do what is necessary to win even if it is for justice.  Being just does not guarantee anything.  In fact, justice had to await the birth and development of Heru, a historical material fighter even in KMT philosophy before the material evil fighter Set could be defeated.  Oppressors rule the world because the oppressed have not fitted themselves in struggle to end their oppression.

Nothing Magical about Words and Speech

No eclectic celebrationist mixture of empty prayers that have not worked, rosy words, begging, marching, pleading, dancing, trumpet-playing, entertaining jazz playing, singing has ever worked without material struggle and even outright war against injustice.  In fact, the organized battle of opposites is what gained the positive progressive results, not the time-wasting entertainment and celebrationist refreshments. Only the forces fighting for material justice will end material injustice.  Staggering between mysticism and realism, science and abstract spiritualism, harmonious eclecticism and KMTic KAist principles will not solve our problem.  Material force must be met by material force.  Ideas are important, but ideas alone are empty of a means of material expression.  They become material forces when they grip the individual and move them to purposeful, informed, scientifically accurate action.  All pie-in-the-sky type interpretations of KMT thought, therefore, have no real-world justification.  

Magically assigning some abstract independent power to "words," mystifies the essential scientific oral tradition of KMT, making it appear that these words that KMTites were uttering were magical rather than embodiments of centuries of summarized material practices.   Again, African scientist must be careful with material conclusions.  Ancient KMT science in Africa had the same material basis in applied theory and practice as modern science.  It did not magically drop from the sky.  It was conceptualized in a different symbolic language, but it required the same intellectual and applied rigor (in this real-world) that modern science demonstrates.

KMT society from the time of unification of Upper and Lower KMT over 5400 years ago has been based on the union and harmonious struggle between internal (African) opposites.  Diop documents, with scientifically verifiable facts, this obvious reality throughout all of his major works on African civilization.  This is a centerpiece of his understanding of the "Two Cradle Theory."  And yet, the mystical element of the African centered movement merely "says it is not so" without any material supporting evidence.  This is vulgar idealism.  Historical facts, sequentially ordered, logically deduced, organized as successive historical systems of transitory stages of endless development, birth, death, and rebirth are stubborn things to be respected. 

Opposites in union and struggle are everywhere: they compliment and they clash in a cross-paralleled process.  There are real winners and losers.   Planets attract and repulse in an interactive unity and struggle of complementary opposites.  This is a transition stage, however, even if the relationship requires billions of years to mature and change.  In the animal kingdom, for millions of years, animals similar to lions have preyed on animals similar to zebras.  Such a food chain which sees million of animals and trillions of cells die each day is a real expression of the unity and life and death struggle of opposites.  The unity and struggle between the hunter and the hunted, the fluid and the solid, the hot and the cold, the past and the present, the old and the young, the weak and the strong, the prepared and the unprepared, the positive and the negative, the material and the spiritual are vital forces that are evident everywhere.  

Even lower mathematics teems with vital forces of vital force, for example: In mathematics: (+) and (-); differential and integral elements. In mechanics: action and reaction. In physics: positive and negative electricity.  In chemistry: the combination and dissociation of atoms.  In social science: the race, gender/sex, generation, cultural, or class struggles.  In war, offense and defense, advance and retreat, victory and defeat.  All are mutually contradictory phenomena. These are opposing forces that fight a life and death battle in which there are real winners and losers. 

Ancient African KMT established over 5400 years ago that internal motion always begins in pairs.  The internal source of living matter and antimatter's motion has the unity of opposing pairs as a catalyst.   One cannot exist without the other; and at some point, one cannot exist because of the other.  Upper KMT (hdjt) is in struggle and unity with lower KMT (dshrt).  The lotus plant of hdjt is in union and struggle with the papyrus plant of dshrt.  The desert sands of Dsrtare in unity and struggle with the rich fertile soil of KMT.  Upper KMT (hdjt) and Lower KMT (dshrt), symbolized by the white crown and the red crown is a unity of opposites which is ultimately synthesized in the double crown (shmty). 

The two aspects of KMT were also embodied in the two great ladies, respectively the vulture goddess Nkhbt of Nkhb and the cobra goddess Wdjt of Buto.  In sum, KMT was a land of extreme geographical and environmental contrasts.  These contrasting objective conditions were reflected in the thoughts and behaviors of ancient KMTians.  The very names that were given to the two diametrically opposed areas represented the ancients' recognition of the essence of the unity and struggle of opposing aspects within a cross paralleled process.  The harmony came from harnessing the two aspects toward common objectives.  The two aspects are at once in conflict and in interdependence, in harmony and in strife, and this constitutes the totality of a war, pushes its development forward and solves its problems. Every difference in one's concepts should be regarded as reflecting an objective vital force.

Vital Force: Unity and Struggle of Opposites

Objective vital forces are reflected in subjective thinking, and this process constitutes the conflicting, warring movement of concepts, pushes forward the development of thought, and ceaselessly solves problems in man's thinking. Opposition and struggle between ideas of different kinds constantly occur; this is a reflection within the communication context of vital forces between races, classes, and sexes and between the new and the old in society. If there were no vital forces and no ideological struggles to evolve them, life of any social relationship would come to an end.  In the end, however, there is clarity of thought once the obsolete thoughts have been defeated and replaced by the more advanced ones.   Clearly, vital force exists universally and in all processes, whether in the simple or in the complex forms of motion, whether in objective phenomena or ideological phenomena. But vital force exists at the initial stage of each process. There is a movement of twin opposites from begin­ning to end in the process of development of every single thing.

Another significant error is that they give word an independent force outside of material practice and human spiritual will.  Words do not have magical powers of liberation in practical history---only in dream worlds.  You cannot talk your way out of slavery.  You cannot pray away the lynch rope.  You cannot plead your way out of a rape.  Magic and mysticism does not work for the Black person who needs a job, food, clothing, housing, health care and a scientific education.  Our children do not need fairy tales; they need an understanding of self-responsibility, self-reliance, long-term internal preparation and an unrelenting will toward justice via science. 

The word is important in KMT sacred science because ancient KMT priests did not usually write down their scientific understandings on paper.  They transferred knowledge via oral tradition, in secret, via the word.  How to build a nuclear bomb could be relayed via oral tradition; it would have power, however, only if some one took those words, transformed them into deeds, created the bomb and ignited it in practice---as the United States did against the Japanese during World War II.   In sum words, (i.e., mental forces), become material forces in the real-world only when they are converted into an element of practical will.  When they take possession of an individual's mind, words become a material force as they render logic, order, organization, know-how, will, and purpose to one's practical action in this world.  

Empty words are meaningless.  Words that lead to specific scientifically and morally sound action are "divine speech."  To waste valuable time and energy calling on the absentee slave gods with words is meaningless and criminal: ask the millions of Africans who died in the Middle Passage, as their tortured souls and bodies were tossed unceremoniously into the bloody jaws of sharks.  Who/what helped them as the sharks tore through their flesh?  No magical spell saved them; no magical "words" will save Africans today.  It appears that the vast majority of African thinkers neither have the will or the insight enough to rise, be it even speculatively, above reformist, mystical, wing-and-a-prayer organizing, "god-seeking," and mystery-seeking, often attempting to soar above science itself.  They appear to have a magic formula at their elbows, and an illusion of independent spirits helping from above when all they need do is meticulously take note of the sequential unfolding of natural history before their eyes and become its mouthpiece.  This is science unified with spirit at its best.  Scientific know-how and will toward injustice have been the secret to oppressor success; scientific know-how and unrelenting will toward justice will end oppression.     

Case Study of Dr. Ani's Yurugu Method

The work of Dr. Marimba Ani, especially her classic work Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior, is extremely instructive, especially in regard to her focus on the "history of the idea" as opposed to the "history of the objective material conditions that produced the behaviors and the resulting attitudes (ideas)."  This is a necessary book to be read, studied, and understood.  Where do ideas come from?  Go to the source: practice.

In this 632 page opus, she identifies in a materialist and idealized form the historical cross-paralleled opposition of European thought and behavior with the artistic flair of Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasonsand the polemic structure of Frances Cress Welsing's The Isis Papers.  Using diagrams, definitions, and Swahili concepts, she begins to transform European concepts into transitional African concepts (Swahili), thus, laying the foundation for Africans to begin to think through a re-Africanized conceptual system.  This is a great beginning, because as she meticulously establishes, Africans will not free themselves from the domination of any oppressor until their culture and historical memories are reestablished.  This is an internal process of intense honesty, concrete study, practice and scientifically guided struggle. 

Although Africans in America still must communicate through English to transitional African languages, Yurugu is a significant move toward independent intra-African analysis and synthesis.  It must be read so that each argument can be followed to its logical conclusion.  Human thought, which is anything but absolute, having only incomplete steps toward summarizing the whole of reality, encounters at every step new problems to be solved.   Dr. Ani clearly masters the critical aspects of the passages of European cultural thought that she chooses to identify.  This was an extremely difficult and intellectually ground-breaking task of over 20 years of researching and making sense of the sometimes senseless ideological justification by Whites for their intra-global Aryan imperialism.   At the heart of this work is the concept of Asili. 

The Asili is an important conceptualization that Dr. Ani defines as the White race that lacks spirit and thus seeks power to fill the void.  It is central to her discussion of European institutionalized religion, ideology and values, aesthetics, self-image, image of other's intra-cultural relations, intercultural behavior towards others, and overall thought patterns.  She, however, does not address the antithesis in most Africans (and most of the African intelligentsia), who, lacking power, seek empty spirits to fill the void.  In other words, these murderous enslaving whites/arabs lack spirit but they have guns/germs/steel; they are the ones winning every encounter, annihilating the Blacks.  The Black populations, on the other hand, have empty spirits with no material weapons; they are the ones losing every encounter, handily, being enslaved, overworked, brutalized, lynched, burned, raped, molested, bred, and cheated until they are physically dead.

Every mental summation is a unity and war of opposites toward complementariness and clarity.  There are many positive aspects in Ani's work, especially her general summarized abstractions of the White ideological development since Greece.  At the same time, one could look at the lack of scientific/logical development in Black thought since ancient African Kmt---as a direct result of being under the foot of slavemaking/invading Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and west Europeans.  Her major errors, however, are present in her summary assessment of what ends up being an idealistic assessment of "the all evil White and the all good Black." Although the positive aspect of Dr. Ani's work is predominant, she has established a system of thought founded on a "history of the idea," the history of White ideas, that is, idealism.   This stands human historical development on its head.  As opposed to "I am, therefore, I think"; Ani's work is founded on the belief that "I think, therefore I am."  No science is founded on such inverted logic.  Ideas do not drop from the sky.  They have a real-life source in some variation of mediated practical reality.  Dr. Ani must, therefore, construct, as a foundation for her ideological superstructure, the material, real, living conditions that laid the foundation for the ideas of men and women.  There must be no skipping around, arbitrarily selecting history out of sequence to verify modern arguments. Order and practical factual sequencing of evidence are paramount. 

Scientific researchers must necessarily examine intimately what Europeans were doing in the 14^th, 15^th, 16^th centuries: What were their environmental conditions? What were their natural resources?  What were their basic economic needs and how did they meet them?  What were their raw materials; what were their technical capabilities?  What stage of development were their societies?  What relationships did different sex/genders, ethnic groups, races, classes, generations, and cultures have.  In short, what were the real tangible conditions of existence for these people?  To get a the essence of White behavior or Black behavior for that matter, what is this but to draw up the real, profane history of men and women in every century and to present in sequence these humans as temporary creators of their own history---as opposed to evil spirits, pseudo-psychological mysteries.   The whites are winning because they have what it takes to win and they are using it.  Look at their technological/military balance sheet: over $21 trillion dollars spent on weapons of mass destruction/military arms.  Look at the global Black balance sheet: the least amount of scientists and engineers per capita in modern world history.  Play with empty words aside, the whites are winning because they can.

If one traces the material flow of history as opposed to the ideological reflection of that flow one, even through the numerous zigzags, arrives at the actual natural genesis, growth, development, and maturation of the real-life process.  In sum, it would be more scientifically accurate and reproducible to follow the material practice in history and sum that up in theory, as opposed to eclectically following subjectively selected ideas, concepts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions and then picking the practices in history that fit the subjective idea.  This is science standing on its head.  

Subjective selection of ideology as opposed to tracing the actual material flow of historical conditions that produce the ideas is an acute methodological error that most of the African-centered movement is making today.  Chapter by chapter, Dr. Ani starts with ideas and then moves to behavior: Utamawazo, the cultural structuring of thought to religion and ideology to aesthetics and the power of symbols to self-image to image of others to rhetoric and behavior to intracultural behavior to behavior towards others.  Methodologically, what kind of reliable and consistent conclusions can one arrive at if one starts with ideology as opposed to the objective material conditions of life and move to the idea, as Diop has so carefully done in Civilization or Barbarism?

There are important lessons from such errors in logic that the next generation of African thinkers must supersede if they are to stand on Dr. Ani's great shoulders.  No doubt, the binary system of comparison and contrast is initially useful for the purpose of general outlines.  However, there are specific internal opposites within each opposite which in complementary struggle drive the one external opposite against the other external opposite.  In sum, the entire White race could not do what it does to the black race if the black race could/would stop it.  KMTic KA is the vital force of nature; it has two vital aspects, each opposing the other, twin opposites, in mortal battle whose result is ultimate higher balance or complementary energy.  There is a fight.  There are winners in history and there are losers.  Concrete, factual, chronological, and logical study of history shows that African, Asians, Arabs, Chechimecans, Europeans and all other populations of the world have fought/complimented each other for thousands of years. 

Conflict has been necessary as well as complementariness---at a certain stage in the development of the unity, twiness, integration, and cross-paralleled struggle of opposites.  The internal force of justice determines injustice's life.  Sure, the White population (and also Arabs and Jews) have significant psychological, cultural, social, and moral problems consistent with having such an easy 500 years of forcefully winning the world even though their goal has been unjust.  They had a will toward injustice and the military force and scientific techniques to achieve this will.   Africans merely have not learned and practically internalized the material and spiritual lessons of history that Vietnamese and other Asians have left in the historical record.  Having been defeated over and over again so thoroughly in defense of justice, Africans must begin to scientifically research their own internal shortcoming-first.  What is keeping them from fighting with the same will, force and fury for themselves as they do for others?  This is the internal question that results in independent self-motion.  External forces (i.e., White violence and enslavement) does not determine the inner will and material workings of internal forces within the African soul.  Decisions are made.  Excuses are discarded. 

Based on summarized history, it is materially evident that injustice in the world has prevailed because justice has not been materially able to end the injustice.   Material force and a will toward injustice have met a lack of material force and a unanimous will toward justice.   Clearly, Whites and Arabs have prevailed primarily because they have done the necessary life and death things required for their temporary world supremacy.   Asians are catching up, however, because they understand and are implementing the ingredients for success: science, uncompromising will, goal single-mindedness, unity, protracted mission orientation and quiet victory at all costs.   Disarming oneself of material weapons, and a material body for that matter, and standing in front of someone who has material weapons and a will to use them is suicidal, regardless of the after the fact claims of spirituality.  Populations win at war because they know how to win, they are prepared, they have the proper weapons, they have a winning strategy, they have steeled fighters, they have competent generals who have planned at headquarters.  They are not led around by ignorant preachers/imams  with bibles and korans as are most Black mass movements for liberation.  Ignorance and mysticism has never helped any population be successful.

Dr. Ani and others spend much too much time and energy on abstractions, fancy swahilli terms, arguing with metaphysical/mystical/racist/idealist whites whose works are outside of the actual concrete flow of history.  These are lightweights who never claimed any scientific grounding.  This debate should have been turned on Aristotle, Heraclitus, Euclid, Marx, or a Lenin---some white with a scientific footing.  Generally, the African-centered movement spends too much time criticizing the science and materialism that feeds, clothes, shelters, heals, educates, transports, the masses of people around the world instead of teaching the next African generation of children how to use science and will for justice (even if one has to fight to one's death with real weapons) as opposed to injustice.    As a result of this anti-science trend there are absolutely no Black procedural science, engineering, math, architecture, construction engineering, manufacturing technique books in any bookstore in any place in the world.  We are not talking about books describing who was a scientist; we are talking about books using science/applying science and engineering.  This is suicidal in a period of massive White militia and nazi material development.  Africans must not be confused into criticizing the science that determines the quality and quantity of food, clothing, shelter, transportation, mass communication, and medical care that they purchase, with how the White race has used science to enslave and conquer the peoples of the world, including Africans.          

Africans, since the invasions and external destruction of KMT, as summarized by Chancellor Williams' Destruction of Black Civilization have not fought as hard, as long, as prepared, and as organized for their own independence as they have fought on the sides of Arabs, Whites, and Jews for the freedom of White, Arabs, and Jews.  This is an obvious psychological, spiritual, and moral deficiency.  Study the wars in America and around the world, moving backwards from "Dessert Storm," Iraq War in the 1990's-2008+.  In fact, Africans have killed more oppressed people of the world and other Africans for their oppressors than they have killed of their oppressors.  This is not morally sound or just.  No spirit from Allah, Jehovah, or God (the oppressor-created gods of the oppressors) has done anything that can be traced and documented to help Africans independent of what Africans have practically willed to be done to help themselves. 

Over 300,000,000 crushed and mangled bodies during the Holocaust of African enslavement is testimony to this lack of mystical assistance from the "gods.'  Whites have no monopoly on science, even in the world today.  Africans certainly have no monopoly on Dr. Ani's definition of spiritualism, especially in light of Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire and any African American family where the Black man has just walked out and abandoned his family.  The White race has caused the world many problems and has also made major contributions (both consciously and unconsciously) to the advancement of world civilization.  However, regardless of what Whites do, it is the responsibility of Africans to take full advantage of all opportunities to redeem, resurrect, and restore African civilization within this lifetime.  This is not being done today, and it sure was not done in the past; otherwise, how else could a people practicing injustice with science and will defeat a people who claim to be practicing justice without science and united wills for over 2700 years since the utter pillaging of North Africa?

In the advanced elements of KMTic thought, spirit was will incarnate; KA was vital force.  In modern African-centered thought, this "spirit" is decked out under so many names (e.g. selfish, magical incantations); it betrays any objective verifiable definition.  Thus, for the African-centered thinker, trapped by mysticism, there is no longer a history of practical behaviors that lay the foundation for practical ideas.  Ideas are made to drop from the sky.   In the progressive element of KMTic thought, each organic life form had a motive force, an internal driving force, a will.  That will was manifested in real- life deeds that developed in sequence, not in invoking powerless abstract spirits that could not stop one White man-made bullet from piercing the skull of one innocent African child.  Free will was supreme and internal to the individual; there was no determinism to make one person innately good or the other person evil.  Those forces played themselves out in the internal struggles of the individual and were practically expressed in their day-to-day deeds. 

The Arab and European holocaust and mass enslavement against African civilization happened in this real-world.  And the so-called all-powerful, but absent in the greatest hours of need, gods were nowhere in practical reality to be found for the over 300,000,000 innocent one's who did not have the scientific material means to stop those who had the scientific material means plus their own "gods" (that they themselves had made up in their own image and interest).   Clearly, an African can be as scientific as an Asian in Japan.  That same African can be spiritually driven to do as much or more for justice using that science as the Europeans do to maintain their injustice against Africans.   One does not have to be anti-scientific to be pro-spiritual.  This is a tremendous ideological error in the progressive aspect of the African-centered movement.

Dr. Ani never makes this essential material and spiritual elements of real-world liberation clear in her binary assessment of the deeds and thoughts of Europeans and Africans.   Ideas do not drop from the sky.  The question should be: What material condition fortified the will in Whites to use science for whatever purpose in benefit of White civilization?  What material conditions was ancient KMT bequeathed that allowed for its 6000 years of developing science and spirit in benefit of African civilization?  How can those conditions be replicated as to ignite the spirit of Africans today?  Even with its internal deficiency (of not defining why "just" Africans allow "unjust" Europeans to destroy so much and so many in so little time without mounting the necessary equal and opposite real-world, mission-oriented process to win); Yurugu is the most comprehensive African-centered critique of selected European ideology that serves as a foundation for understanding White supremacy ever written.    The topic area is not useful in our view because it deals with mere ideas as opposed to applied material realities.  But the goal of studying content/form of European ideas from the view of an educated African woman is a significant contribution.

It is a beginning, but it must be stood on its feet.   Dr. Ani defines the Asili as "the White race that lacks spirit and thus seeks power to fill the void."  This is a very important conceptualization of half of the problem facing the Black race and the world---the external aspect.  Objectively, however, in science and in nature, external aspects are not the catalysts for the internal driving forces of the internal aspect.    Using Dr. Ani's conceptualization, Africans, therefore, must be the anti-Asili, because, due to a lack of power, even their best minds seek empty spirits to fill the void.  Material force and spiritual force must be met with material force and spiritual force; not material force and spiritual force toward injustice meeting spirits alone.  Asians and the part of the nonwhite world that are making progress against their oppressors fully understand this elementary fact.  In 80 years, the Chinese have  a unified/independent nation, prosperity, 1.78 billion people being fed/clothed/housed/educated/given healthcare/given recreation/culture, an average national economic growth rate for the past 20 years of above 12%, advanced universities for science/technology/engineering, and a highly trained technological core infrastructure of over 3 million engineers.  They have not prayed to one slavemaker god.  Then look at Africans; look at Africa. Then get to work learning what people who have stopped wasting time did. 

Every mental summation is a unity and war of opposites. Ani is a positive aspect of African-centered thought because of her boldness and intellectual African-centered worldview.  The advanced aspects of her external assessment of Whites can be summarized and preserved; the idealistic and often mystical shell can be recycled via the material world and actual practices in history.  Therefore,  Ani's contributions in Yurugu far outweigh her liabilities., as is also the case with others who have 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/slavemaker 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.  Clearly they are afraid in this world and of the next world fantasized by the enslavers in their books.  Nowhere is it evident that the reactionary aspect (which is dominant) of Afrocentricity has an independent scientific research method to guide what it calls 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.