All their great men came to Africa.
You pay homage where knowledge resides because Africa is the cradle of human civilization.
That is not pride talk. That is history.
From Egypt to Ethiopia, from Timbuktu to Axum, Africa taught the world before the world had schools. The Nile did not just carry water. It carried mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and governance.
Pythagoras went to Egypt. Plato went to Egypt. Herodotus called Egypt the gift of the Nile and sat at the feet of African priests to learn. Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, they all came to drink from the well.
You do not pay homage in a dry place. You go where the water is. And the water was here.
Africa gave humanity the first calendar, the first university, the first surgery, the first architecture that still defies time. The pyramids are not just stones. They are textbooks in geometry. The libraries of Timbuktu held more manuscripts than most of Europe at the time.
So why do we act like orphans in our own house? Why do we import identity and export talent? Why do we celebrate foreign degrees but forget that the first degrees were given here?
To my fellow Africans: stop begging for validation. Walk tall. Fund research. Protect our artifacts. Teach our children their story.
To the world: if you want to understand where we came from, come home. The answers are buried in our soil, written in our walls, sung in our drums.
Africa is not a problem to be solved. Africa is the source.
You pay homage where knowledge resides. And knowledge has always resided here.
The cradle is still rocking.
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