On September 30th, it was Segun Gbadegesin’s turn to give a speech in Freshman Seminar. His speech was more on religion that anything else but that is not what I focused on. In his slideshow, as well as in his speech, he gave evidence on how many things attributed to Europeans or the people of the Middle East should really be attributed to Africa. He showed that the 10 Commandments, as well as many other texts, have been copied form Ancient African documents, with the 10 Commandments plagiarizing the Principles of Ma’at. I knew this already, but many of the other students probably didn’t. Many people think that the Bible is a completely original document. If Mr. Gbadegesin would have clarified what he was talking about a little better, more of the class could have followed his speech a lot easier. What I found interesting was that Mr. Gbadegesin said that he didn’t learn about Ancient Africa until he came to America. That is just amazing to me and this could have been a separate speech altogether. How can one not learn the history of the place one is living in? I would think that Africa is where one could learn the most about Ancient Africa. It just seems strange that he started learning about Africa here when American school systems are always criticized for being Eurocentric. According to Mr. Gbadegesin, all he learned about in African schools was Europe and Christianity. This is sad and it needs to change.
Monique Smith
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