Title: Africans In European History | How Africa News
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Africans In European History
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Content: One can only imagine how many more Africans remain nameless, lost in of history. Like Louis XIV’s alleged Black daughter who was erased from the records and sent to spend her life in a nunnery. Or those Black Africans who lived close to the Jews in 16th century Portugal. Blacks and Jews in 16th century Portugal: Jewish police officers haul away a black man in this anonymous depiction of a Lisbon street scene
It is obvious that Africans have been part of European history for centuries, yet it seems that the only people who are aware of this are those who hold special interest in African history or the history of Africans in Europe. Most modern historical depictions of Europe do not reflect the multicultural reality. And when they do, there tends to be uproar based on the idea that Africans never left the jungle prior to European aid. The history of Africans outside the continent is just another important part of African history that is largely ignored, and one has to wonder why our history is written so that it starts with subjugation, whether slavery or colonialism, and why popular versions of history have tended to airbrush out the contributions of people of African descent to Western arts, sciences and life in general. The next exciting part to this series will be the other largely ignored history of Africans in Asia and the possibility that Africans reached the Americas pre-Columbus. source: