The Real Wakandas of Africa: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain: The most in-depth discussion of race and African history since J.A. Rogers' book From Superman to Man

by Maurice Miles Martinez

This book is the sequel to J.A. Rogers’ From Superman to Man and is an introduction to the field of African Studies. Also published as From Man to Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain, this book documents the history of Africans including real civilizations in Africa that produced elements that act in a similar way to the fictional vibranium and are currently used to fuel smartphones and rocket engines. Ancient African civilizations were so advanced that some of their feats of construction and science have never been matched. For a more detailed description of the book, please look inside the book.Here are 2 reviews by prominent scholars in the field of African Studies and former colleagues of Dr. John Henrik “Early in his career, I recognized that Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a brilliant intellectual and unique person. He invited me to join the faculty in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. In this stirring discussion of African global history and politics, Maurice Miles Martinez brings Dr. Clarke alive for a new generation of readers and shows why his approach is still relevant to the struggle facing Africans and the African Diaspora today. By having Dr. Clarke encounter Herman Cain on a South-to-North bus ride, Martinez academically and metaphorically demonstrates Dr. Clarke’s desire to teach everywhere he went and to challenge those in power to outline a genuine economic, political and cultural roadmap for African people.” --Tilden Lemelle, Ph.D. and former Professor and Chair of the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY ****************************************** “As a former colleague and friend of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, I found that Martinez captured his personality, his spirit and his desire to spread knowledge about Africa even to those who may be doubtful. Over the years, I traveled to the African continent with Dr. Clarke. Using more than 200 sources, many of which Dr. Clarke regularly cited in his lectures, Martinez brings forth Dr. Clarke’s approach to African History, his gift of persuasion by using irrefutable facts, and his desire to engage with those who did not see his point of view.” --Bert Green, Ph.D. Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY

388 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 2019

Reviews

[Maurice Miles Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the sequel to J.A. Rogers’ book: From Superman to Man and is an introduction to the field of African Studies. Also published as From Man to Superman: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain, this book documents the history of Africans including real civilizations in Africa that produced elements that act in a similar way to the fictional vibranium and are currently used to fuel smartphones and rocket engines. Ancient African civilizations were so advanced that some of their feats of construction and science have never been matched. For a more detailed description of the book, please look inside the book.Here are 2 reviews by prominent scholars in the field of African Studies and former colleagues of Dr. John Henrik Clarke:

“Early in his career, I recognized that Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a brilliant intellectual and unique person. He invited me to join the faculty in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. In this stirring discussion of African global history and politics, Maurice Miles Martinez brings Dr. Clarke alive for a new generation of readers and shows why his approach is still relevant to the struggle facing Africans and the African Diaspora today. By having Dr. Clarke encounter Herman Cain on a South-to-North bus ride, Martinez academically and metaphorically demonstrates Dr. Clarke’s desire to teach everywhere he went and to challenge those in power to outline a genuine economic, political and cultural roadmap for African people.” --Tilden Lemelle, Ph.D. and former Professor and Chair of the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College,CUNY**************************************** “As a former colleague and friend of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, I found that Martinez captured his personality, his spirit and his desire to spread knowledge about Africa even to those who may be doubtful. Over the years, I traveled to the African continent with Dr. Clarke. Using more than 200 sources, many of which Dr. Clarke regularly cited in his lectures, Martinez brings forth Dr. Clarke’s approach to African History, his gift of persuasion by using irrefutable facts, and his desire to engage with those who did not see his point of view.” --Bert Green, Ph.D. Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY.

[Steven H · Rating 2 out of 5]

A FICTIONAL ‘DEBATE’ WITH A HYPOTHETICAL JOHN HENRIK CLARKE SERVING AS SPEAKER

John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was an African-American historian, professor, and a pioneer in Pan-African and Africana studies.

Maurice Miles Martinez wrote in the Preface to this 2017 book, “This book is meant to be the sequel to J.A. Rogers’ book ‘From Man to Superman’ and an introduction to the field of African studies. It has been 100 years since J.A. Rogers wrote ‘From Man to Superman’ in 1917, and the problems addressed by that book are still with us… In the pages of this book, the reader will meet one of the great African historians, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, former professor in the Black and Puerto Rican Studies Department at Hunter College… As Dr. Clarke engages in a fictional debate with Mr. Herman Cain, former African-American CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, presidential candidate, and radio host, and the two men [with a young observer named Martin] discuss a number of issues pertaining to African people…

‘Dr. Clarke’ observes, “we have the richest continent [Africa] on the planet. When it comes to natural resources, we lead the world… We even have the mythical Vibranium of the Black Panther comic book series. Coltan, which is the abbreviated name for Columbites-Tantelites, is mined in the Congo… components of Coltan are used as key ingredients when constructing rocket engines, MRI scanners, and smartphones. Now what did Vibranium really do for the mythical Black Panther world? It powered technology that was more advanced than the rest of the world. Coltan has the same purpose. Without it, we would not be as advanced and the majority of the world’s Coltan is in the Congo in Africa. We have things that other people want ... badly… and things they don’t want to pay for!’” (Pg. 50-51)

Clarke says, “The individualistic form of responsibility that you describe does not explain the overly high arrests and convictions of African-Americans for drugs... individuals from the African and European communities in this country are equally responsible when it comes to drug use and selling drugs. Yet, the fact that Africans are stopped at three times the rate of Europeans in this country, leads to the higher incarceration rate of African people. The War on Drugs caused this and encouraged police focus on drugs in African-American communities.” (Pg. 60)

Clarke asserts, “the fundamental concepts that you consider to be Christian or Hebrew traditions originated in Africa… the spiritual principles that you know as Christianity existed before the Old or New Testaments were written and plagiarized from African texts.” (Pg. 76-77) He continues, “The Christians today also worship more than one God. The Catholics have saints which are a modern-day equivalent of ancient Egypt’s lesser gods. In fact, many of the Roman Catholic deities started as ancient Egyptian deities. Osiris… was one of them and he became Saint Onuphrius in the Catholic Church.” (Pg. 79-80)

Clarke states, “Akhenaten… was a black African. I say that because so many have intentionally mislabeled the Egyptians as belonging to another ethnic group… Akhenaten was the first man in history to unite a nation under the concept of one God. He is the first person to promote monotheism.” (Pg. 81)

Clarke says, “The only time color didn’t matter… is on the African continent when we were sociable and likable among ourselves. The ancient world observed color but did not use it to create a chattel slave system and institutional racism.” (Pg 118)

Clarke explains, “when I was younger I was active in the Communist movement, but I never chose to join it. I felt that the Communists were trying to position themselves as being fairer to the African, but by joining them we were trading one oppressor for another.” (Pg. 138)

Clarke states, “There is no such thing as black-on-black crime. This is a fictitious myth. First, the majority of European-American whites are killed by other European American whites… This is why it is essential to have a ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. Although I think our entire community needs to have an economic program, Black Lives Matter is indeed responsible for highlighting the fact that black people are killed at a disproportionate rate.” (Pg. 156)

Clarke suggests, “Americans are enabling gun traffickers who are bringing guns into the black community. If white Americans were experiencing the same level of violence from illegal guns that African people experience, I guarantee you they would regulate them.” (Pg. 176)

Clarke asserts, “Prior to the European’s arrival in Africa, in both ancient and modern times, many aspects of African medicine were much more enhanced than European medicine. … the African was far more advanced in so many areas.” (Pg. 187)

Clarke says, “The antiquity of African philosophy is unique and stands alone and is older than all other philosophies... While civilizations such as the Sumerian… produced pottery… and frescoes during the period of the earliest Egyptian dynasties, only Egypt produced a body of work consistent enough … to be called ‘philosophy.’” (Pg. 217)

Clarke reports, “I debated Mary Lefkowitz [author of 'Not Out of Africa"]… Martin Bernal was also a participant in the debate… I must say that Dr. Bernal woke a lot of white folks up. In fact, in the debate, he said that he did all of that work only to come to the same conclusions that black scholars had been writing about for years.” (Pg. 232)

Clarke contends, “Dr. Henry Louis Gates… does not understand the fact that prior to both the Arab and European enslavement of our people, African culture did not allow for slavery. For hundreds of years before the European arrived, Arabs enslaved us. Then the European came with his large slave ships. Dr. Gates is misleading our people by trying to blame Africans for slavery.” (Pg. 273-274)

Clarke also states, “Cornel West points out [in ‘Race Matters’] many of the failures of man’s most dangerous myth: race. The great strength of ‘Race Matters’ is that it shows the weakness of almost every segment of American society when it comes to race. However, it leaves us without a viable solution and I must say that liberal white folks love that book so much. I have spoken with Dr. West and I love brother Cornel West, but that book is on every white liberal’s short list, and I have to wonder why they recommend a book so highly on race that does not offer a solution.” (Pg. 315-316)

This book is of course ‘fictional,’ so one can’t hold it to a very high standard; and a lot of us probabl wonder what Dr. Clarke would have said about, say, the Black Lives Matter movement. But Martinez puts words into the mouth of his fictional Dr. Clarke that the real Dr. Clarke would not necessarily have endorsed. (As documentation, Martinez often recommends reading a particular book, but it would have been more helpful if he had given specific PAGE NUMBERS which he claims supports his assertions.)

[Maurice Miles Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book about African history and the sequel to J.A. Rogers’ book From Superman to Man. It discusses the causes of oppression of black people but goes way beyond that. There was a time when African people built great civilizations and created science. This book gives the reader the facts and sources to support the author’s thesis that Africans built great civilizations and contributed to the advancement of European civilization. While this is a novel, all 200+ sources are factual. Readers will learn hidden solutions for African people today. This book covers fields of history, political science, psychology, education, religion and anthropology. It is also published under the title: The Real Wakandas of Africa: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain. The author has multiple graduate degrees in many of these areas. I highly recommend this book for beginners or advanced African Studies majors. It is a must read. Look at what scholars said about this on the back of the book. A++ rating by scholars.

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[Maurice Miles Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book about African history and the sequel to J.A. Rogers’ book From Superman to Man. It discusses the causes of oppression of black people but goes way beyond that. There was a time when African people built great civilizations and created science. This book gives the reader the facts and sources to support the author’s thesis that Africans built great civilizations and contributed to the advancement of European civilization. While this is a novel, all 200+ sources are factual. Readers will learn hidden solutions for African people today. This book covers fields of history, political science, psychology, education, religion and anthropology. It is also published under the title: The Real Wakandas of Africa: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain. The author has multiple graduate degrees in many of these areas. I highly recommend this book for beginners or advanced African Studies majors. It is a must read. Look at what scholars said about this on the back of the book. A++ rating by scholars.

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