Publisher: Black Classic Press, U.S - £20

Yosef Ben Jochannan presents a powerful and coherent case to present the essential African origins of Egyptian civilisation, and the pronouced influence of Egypt and therefore "black" Africa on the later major european civilisations of Greece and later Rome.

This book refers to the work of greek scholars, such as Pythagoras, Herodotus who spent years travelling and studying in ainceint Egypt, before returning to Greece with their "discoveries" who had marvelled at the advancments the Egyptians had made in architecture, mathematics, medicince, astronomy, agriculture. These european scholars were in no doubt of theachievments of the people of the Nile nor the fact that these people were black.

Ben Jochannon argues forcefully and effectively the African ethnicty of the first Jews termed "Haribu" in Africa. The fact that Moses, himself a black African was born and educated in Egypt and later married an ethiopian. The presence of thousands of black jews in ethiopia and the sudan to this very day being testament to the African origins of judaism. Nor does Ben-Jochannon overlook the Egyptian influence on the development of early Christianity.