I am student of history and am always interested in learning about ancient civilizations. Why is it that with all this black history month stuff that I am be bombarded with across MSM and social media, I don't see anything about ancient sub Saharan African civilizations? It seems that black history only started in the last 500 years and all I hear about are activists from the last 100 years. The Egyptians, Hittites, Minoans, Mesopotamians all had empires dating back to 3300 BC. We can see their archaeological remains with buildings, tools, pottery, tablets, skeletons, references to each other within ancient texts. Why don't the black history month people showcase the achievements of ancient Sub Saharan African civilizations?
EDIT For some reason about 20% of you seem to think that I am saying that the Egyptians, Hittites, and Minoans were sub Saharan African civilizations. That would be a complete misread of my post. I am using them as an example of the fact that there are a lot of archaeological remains of other civilizations from 3300 years ago that can be studied. So if that is the case, then there should be some level of material that can be studied for ancient Sub Saharan African civilizations.
In the greater interest of truly understanding Black History it would only make sense to get the full timeline of the African Diaspora and see their plight in full historical context.
Actually Africa has some of the greatest history and empires ever recorded. Records that were maintained greater than any other records. Ever heard of Joseph?
Edit: I see now OP is asking specifically for sub Saharan African history, which my comment isn't relevant for.
Is this a joke?
I think people need to clarify the difference between North Africa (not blacks) and sub-Saharan Africa (blacks.)
North Africa, which includes Egypt, was not black. The great civilizations there were more closely related to Europeans than to sub-Saharan Africans.
There are plenty of laughable attempts to steal the credit for Egypt etc and give it to blacks, but the facts remain that we know from genetic studies that the Egyptians weren't black.
Joseph also wasn't black.
sub-Saharan Africa in some of the areas close to Egypt or connected to them via trade borrowed some of their architecture (around the upper kingdom in southern Egypt or around the horn etc.), but outside of that it's basically nothing but mud huts, subsistence hunting, slavery, cannibalism, etc.
One issue is that there were no sub Saharan written languages, so no written history.
Left to their own efforts, blacks never invented a system of writing, nor weaving nor the wheel. Yet the West virtually worships them. Why?