In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa and other parts of Africa reversed it to the patrilineal where everything comes down through the male side and the woman has no basic rights except that which the male is willing to grant her.
John Henrik ClarkeAfter the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.
John Henrik ClarkeIf you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.
John Henrik ClarkeAfrican people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.
John Henrik ClarkeIf you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.
John Henrik Clarke