Power

This book begins with the early Black intellectual giants that the dominant Western culture has shunned. The goal is to stifle the brilliance in our DNA that fuels the advancement of ideas that white people have appropriated in the name of white supremacy. At the feet of Imhotep of Kemet and Hypathia of occupied Africa at the mouth of the Nile River, the Einsteins of antiquity learned (Egypt). the link between Kush and Nubia and the civilizations of interior Africa and the Sub-Sahara. The focus is on the Warrior Queens who played a crucial role in the expansion of African civilization throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Despite racial hurdles, individuals of African origin made significant advances in health, technology, and science from the 19th through the 21st centuries, which the book links to the brilliance of the African past. Black intellectual pioneers and inventors who have contributed to the advancement of science, technology, and engineering are recognized. Programs that help our youngsters advance their knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (the cosmic language) are featured. whereby new efforts are made known, along with how important they are to the progress of humanity. Many other black astronomers, engineers, and astronauts have made significant contributions to space exploration. The efforts of Neil deGrasse Tyson and others to inform the public about the voyage of time, dimensions, other worlds, and the entire universe are included.

"Black women are dope because they ascend and are yet rising. This dopeness is not exaggerated or symbolicrather, it is borne of persecution that has failed to derail a perseverant tenacity to prevail."

Before sea to sparkling sea. Before the vast sky was punctured by purple mountains. Before the unification of one nation. Black women learned to ascend. In POWER: THE BLACK HEROINES OF AFRICA, it has never been a better moment to be a Black woman in Africa.

POWER is an insightful treatise on Black women blending academic frameworks of history and sociology with emotive interviews, anthropological observation, and tales taken from history, social media, pop culture, and the author's personal experiences.

POWER does not shy away from the reality of systemic oppression described by the late Black feminist researcher bell hooks; rather it reveals how Black women use an agency to construct meaningful lives. Success is not an oddity, but a distinguishing quality. Black women have gathered powernow, Elder contends, they need to accept it and then wield the hell out of it.

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