A review by ngaz
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire-Indexed by Drusilla Dunjee Houston

5.0

Excellent Work! A very thorough collection of material uncovering the early dominance of the Black race in Western and Southeastern Asia. Mrs. Dungee Houston was a Black woman born a decade after the end of slavery in the U.S. She therefore was denied the opportunity to receive formal training in journalism or academia. Yet, with determination she made a considerable impact in both fields. On her own, she studied and acquired vast knowledge of ancient history, then set down for posterity her analysis of history in the context of her Africanity. In this book she links the progress of the well known kingdoms of the ancient world, like Babylon, Chaldea, Egypt, and Hindu India, to even earlier foundational kingdoms and peoples that were Black, though no longer remembered. The book’s flaw is that so much of its material is based on the speculation by various writers she draws from, and lacks more knowledge depth we have now from the fields of linguistics, archaeology, etc., but it’s a marvelous telling of what we generally know instead, that before the Aryans and Semitic Peoples, Blacks ruled a broad swath of land outside the African Continent, and later civilizations built on their accomplishments. The author is more, therefore, than simply a historian; she is an early architect of Pan-Africanism.