History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
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About John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke was a 20th-century American african-american historian. John Henrik Clarke was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist, and pioneer of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation