Joy with its Golden Oil

Athene
Protectress of Olive Trees


"O olive tree, blessed be the earth that nourishes you
and blessed be the water you drink from the clouds
and thrice blessed He who sent you
for the poor man's lamp and the saint's candle-light".


In
Memory of
Martin Gardiner Bernal
1937 - 2013
author
of
"Black Athena"

 

 

From the 1980s on, Bernal has claimed that the roots of Western civilisation were to be sought not in Ancient Greece but outside Europe, in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and ultimately in sub-Saharan Africa. Bernal has wrought havoc in Western identity, addressing hot issues such as racism, exclusion, cultural domination, White and North Atlantic hegemony. He has combined a

preference for non-mainstream theories (including Afrocentrism) with a passion for ad-hominem arguments derived from his personal sociology of knowledge. In this way he has blazed a trail of polemics and conflicts throughout a considerable number of international scholarly fields, learned journals, and conferences.


........being an agent of heated debate which raised the bar of academic inquiry was Bernal's most endearing quality and enduring contribution to the arena of human herstory.