Vision
The African Historical Society facilitates young and mature African and African-descended students, scholars, educators, and nation-builders in gaining broad access to ancient, medieval and contemporary information contained in African textual artefacts and excavations. These well-grounded, inspired students, scholars, nation-builders and allies will lead Africa and African-descended communities and cosmopolitan communities at large, into a vibrant and flourishing future emboldened by a comprehensive knowledge of the worldview, vision and contributions to global civilization and culture of Africans. Moreover, to present a more comprehensive appreciation for the value of African history and cultural institutions for surmounting modern challenges. AHS represents a decolonial initiative scientifically deconstructing colonial era scholarship.
The African Historical Society is a not-for-profit open access based institution.
Meroitic: Kush- Ethiopia. The African script developed in situ used to write in the kingdoms / empires of Kush – Meroe – Ancient Ethiopia (an identity and/or empire?).
“Nubian”: “New Meroe”- Kush – Ethiopia – Sudan. The peoples of this region began using the Greek alphabet to write their own African languages (i.e., as Classical Arabic would a few centuries later be used to write the Songhay language in the universities of Timbuktu, Mali after the conversion to Islam) along with other older African scripts that developed in situ in Nile Valley African civilizations. It would become the last place that the languages that developed in situ in Nile Valley, Africa, that were also used earlier in KMT/Kamet/”Egypt”, persisted after Lower Egypt of the white crown had been fully occupied foreign invaders and the Arab conquest of “Egypt” succeeded in the eradication of the indigenous language and it’s supplantation with Arabic.
Mission
- The African Historical Society is an interdisciplinary institution committed to the digital repatriation of information and knowledge contained in the manuscripts, documentary evidence and artefacts produced by ancient, medieval and contemporary Africans. AHS maintains that it is the inalienable right of Africans and the African descended to have access to the information produced by ancient, medieval and contemporary Africans. AHS cooperates with Western institutions and corporations to enhance research resources in Africa and underserved communities internationally.
- AHS aims to redress the destruction of historical memory engendered by the alienation of African information.
- The African Historical Society has formed an international coalition that will track manuscripts taken out of Africa. The African Historical Society will record archeological excavations in Africa.
- The African Historical Society is committed to the sustained implementation of state-of-the-field ICT and AI technology to underpin all its work.
- The African Historical Society cooperates with institutions presently working to digitize primary and secondary sources of African history.
- The African Historical Society tracks extant African manuscripts and seek to make their contents digitally available and accessible internationally and broadly to African and African-descended students, scholars and officials in Africa and abroad.
