They told us Africa had no written language. They lied. Africa had writing systems for 5,000+ years before European contact.
"The alphabet you're reading right now — English, Spanish, French, German — ALL trace directly back to African hieroglyphs. Every Western alphabet descended from African writing."
Colonial narratives portrayed Africa as an "oral continent" without literacy or written history. This was a deliberate erasure. The truth is that Africans developed sophisticated writing systems thousands of years before most of Europe could read or write.
These scripts were used for royal decrees, religious texts, trade records, poetry, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and love letters. Many are still in use today.
Every letter you're reading right now traces back to Africa. The A, B, C you learned as a child? African invention.