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IN the United Kingdom, the month of October is honoured as Black History Month. Since locally we do not observe this cornerstone, joining the Britons in celebrating a piece of our story is the only thing we can do.
Endlessly, lay people of especially the very same said benevolent race in view, ceaselessly revere their antagonist and shower him praises that he himself is pouring them. The term is advanced mental colonisation, and it is serious.
In simple terms, praising white people and assuming they invented civilisation and continuously decorate it to be what it is, is heavily misplaced.
To begin with, “chirungu”, civilisation is not white peoples’ invention or discovery. Blacks and Africans brainchild the splendour. Ancient Ethiopians, black in skin colour are to be accurately attributed honours for architecting this gift from the Gods.
The notion that spirituality is behind every atom in the universe nauseates the modern school of thought. Learning science from them is promulgating atheism. However, with the aid only of Jah (God, the Universe and so forth), through the power of the trinity, the tree of wisdom, and a host of spiritual components possess scientists and inventors to create from oblivion into day to day.
With the intention of creating heaven in otherwise neutral or simply hell; creatures basically dig deep into the fountains of knowledge, which they take and scream technology. Although they receive not the accolades; black people, founders of the league, dominate without worth mention competition. Instead with what is not theirs to own, their keen torment foreigners.
Arguing inventions and discoveries without patents is daunting. Documenting only American effort, Wikipedia provides an endless ‘list of African-American inventors and scientists.’ In their words:
“This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of African-Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives.
These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, mathematics, plus the medical, nuclear and space sciences.
Among the earliest was George Washington Carver, whose reputation was based on research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soyabeans, and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families.
He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source of other products to improve their quality of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts.
He also developed and promoted about 100 products made from peanuts that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and nitroglycerin.
He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
A later renowned scientist was Percy Lavon Julian, a research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.
He was the first to synthesise the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the hormones, steroids, progesterone, and testosterone, from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol.
His work would lay the foundation for the steroid drug industry’s production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.
A contemporary example of a modern day inventor is Lonnie George Johnson, an engineer.
Johnson invented the Super Soaker water gun, which was the top-selling toy in the United States in 1991 and 1992.
In 1980, Johnson formed his own firm and licensed the Super Soaker water gun to Larami Corporation. Two years later, the Super Soaker generated over $200 million in retail sales and became the bestselling toy in America.
Larami Corporation was eventually purchased by Hasbro, the second largest toy manufacturer in the world.
Over the years, Super Soaker sales have totaled close to one billion dollars.
Johnson reinvested a majority of his earnings from the Super Soaker into research and development for his energy technology companies “It’s who I am, it’s what I do.”
Currently, Johnson holds over 80 patents, with over 20 more pending, and is the author of several publications on spacecraft power systems.”
The list also includes Patricia Era Bath born on November 4 1942.
She is an ophthalmologist, inventor and academic who has broken ground for women and African-Americans in a number of areas.
“Prior to Bath, no woman has served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, headed a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, or been elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Centre.
by Ibo Foroma
References:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_inventors_and…
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_firsts
wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Lee_Crumpler
wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_inventors
wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACombined_oral_contraceptive_pill.
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