Afrocentric woo?

[lovelyyoungman]

Hey guys,

I recently came across this website counterknowledge.com/about/ which after a brief glance appears to be an interesting skeptical site (I've not looked into it too much tho). But what puzzled me was the quote in the about page:

We are in the middle of a pandemic of credulous thinking, such as 9/11 conspiracy theories, cults, homeopathy, vitamin cures for AIDS, creationism and Afrocentric history.

I'm aware of the other issues it mentions but I've never heard of "Afrocentric history" as being some form of "credulous thinking". I'm guessing what they mean by that is a version of history that focusses on Africa in a way that is not proportionate to its significance in history. If that's the case then surely that's a matter for debate within the historical community, but not something that can be scientifically proved or disproved.

I suspect that either this website has a personal agenda on the subject or there is an aspect to this that I am unaware of, anyone care to enlighten me?

[Cassus]

counterknowledge.com is (or was, before it stopped being updated) a sceptical site.

I think this "Afrocentric history" refers to a group of hypotheses claiming that lots of ancient South American civilisations were, in fact, settlers from Africa - presumably they crossed the Atlantic Ocean by thumbing a lift on one of Erich von Daniken's UFOs.

[asdfg]

www.ukskeptics.com/article.php?dir=articles&article=afrocentrism.php

[lovelyyoungman]

Thankyou, that explains things admirably.

[The Legendary Barb]

Jigsaw, a most interesting read.