He received his PhD from Columbia University in New York and went on to be a professor of mathematics, logic, Greek, and Latin. James was a Guyanese author and historian. This is the misrepresentation that has become the basis of race prejudice, which has affected all people of color.ĭr. Consequently, this theft of the African legacy by the Greeks led to the erroneous world opinion that the African Continent has made no contribution to civilization, and that its people are naturally backward. The book is an attempt to show that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not the Greeks, but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians and the praise and honor falsely given to the Greeks for centuries belong to the people of North Africa, and therefore to the African Continent.
