African Atlantis
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The African Atlantis was a civilization thought to have once existed in southern Africa, initially proposed by German ethnologist Leo Frobenius towards the end of the 19th century. Named for the mythical Atlantis, this lost civilization was conceived to be the root of African culture and social structure, the existence of which contradicted the ideas of white social and cultural superiority which prevailed in Europe during the period. Using studies of language,…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The African Atlantis was a civilization thought to have once existed in southern Africa, initially proposed by German ethnologist Leo Frobenius towards the end of the 19th century. Named for the mythical Atlantis, this lost civilization was conceived to be the root of African culture and social structure, the existence of which contradicted the ideas of white social and cultural superiority which prevailed in Europe during the period. Using studies of language, anthropology and political economy, Frobenius surmised that a white civilization must have existed in Africa prior to the arrival of the European colonisers, and that it was this "white residue" that enabled native Africans to exhibit traits of "military power, political leadership and... monumental architecture."