Search results for 'Centre for Black and African Art and Civilization'

Blackman in Effect

Boogie Down Productions

Edutainment [Edited]

1990

mean humanity is African 

I don't know, but these sciences are hidden 

For some strange reason it's forbidden 

To talk about, or converse

Nature of the Threat

Ras Kass

Soul on Ice

1996

of a primate
Savage Neanderthals, until the late Paleolithic age
That's when the Black Grimaldi man came
With the symbol of the dragon, fire and art
Check cave

of the Britons to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT:  I move for no man.
ARTHUR:  So be it!
[hah]
[parry thrust]
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
ARTHUR:

lost it 
Thus initiating the dark ages that lasted for five centuries
Civilization was reintroduced to Europe when another group of Africans the moors

the gold
That they stole
Sir Marcus say
Sir Marcus say
Black for the people
It looted from

They took us away 
Captivity, captivity
Required from us

gender
And somehow come together to find
Solutions for a broken planet

We have the resources as a
Civilization to find a utopia
But we’re led by the most

tried to tell us what happened
He was sayin'
If you black, then you African
He was sayin'
If you black, then you African
He was sayin'
If you black, then

Yellow for the gold
That they stole
Sir Marcus say
Sir Marcus say
Black for the people
It looted from

They took us away captivity, captivity

is history and black roots
It's war of underground troops against the man with the black suits
Poetry got metaphors with art of war like Sun Tzu
When I

African queen
Follow me make we party tonight
Follow me make we turn up for life


I like egusi
your nkwobi
I like your tuwo
your indomie
Sing for me sing

on Corsica
And expanded their hold on Sicily and southern Italy
But also had settled on the Ligurian coast

For all her prevalence and influence
Black Madonna

are not just art for Michelangelo to carve
He can't rewrite the agrc of my furied heart
I'll wait on mountain tops in Paris, cold
J'veux pas mourir tout

a hell of a cost
And don't really know what was lost
And the process ain't ever stopped
Since black civilization dropped
Through internal greed

and Africans are still getting discriminated 


For Blackman should know thyself 

For in knowing thyself thy shall know God 

Emancipate yourselves and see

It's a national chain with a memorable name
Selling arts and crafts
With a cute little hustle flexing their muscle
And a knack for black market

My African love song
My tales by moonlight 
Sing for me
Tito Da Fire (ye yele oh ye)

She be dancin' in twilight
Flashing me the greenlight
I see

Hello Afrika

Dr. Alban

Hello Afrika

1991

Come together for the sake of your future
Yo! African people unite

Hello Africa! Tell me how you're doin'
Hello Motherland! Tell me how you're doin'

Civilization by Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Check out Black Man of the
Nile again by Yosef Jochannan
Civilization or Barbarism by Cheikh
Anta Diop and then
Black Indians

Not King James Version

Steel Pulse

Babylon the Bandit

1985

Explored this Earth for centuries
I don't wanna lose ya
Phoenicians, Egyptians and the Moors
Built civilization, that's for sure
Creators of the alphabet

page
Locked you up in a cage
Called you uncivilized
Told you lies your African gods were demonized
Open eyes black people youve been sleep for too long

No Wicked Man

Sizzla

The Messiah

2013

it's a black man land it's a black women land

Babylon fighting da black men for their tings
They came with these drugs and a all these tings

Not King James Version

Steel Pulse

Smash Hits

1993

Explored this Earth for centuries
I don't wanna lose ya
Phoenicians, Egyptians and the Moors
Built civilization, that's for sure
Creators of the alphabet

for me
The streets had its hooks in me
Yeah, people ask me what books to read
Destruction of Black civilization, that's history
Journal of Chris

That's the cornerstone of everything
Racism based in
The African had a more advanced civilization
Black was slave, master was white
Rationalization fifty