A son of this soil endured and persisted and died mysteriously the martyr’s death, after producing a treatise dispelling colonial myths, in his book ‘Stolen Legacy’ his name is George Granville Monah James. With African colonialism, with the slave trade and then with the worse stage that followed, the creation of the ‘Colonial’ (this was not only exclusive to African and Creole African societies, but a feature of colonisation itself) and the Civilisation of Khemet, (Egypt) all who came within its borders as invaders, sought to ingrain themselves ethnically in this land. But the worse efforts of redefining Khemet emerged after the continental colonisation 1845 onwards, and the fiction of the master race mythology became essential to diminish the African self-worth, denying him the impetus of mental emancipation and reawakening from the long colonising sleep of self-loathing.

“George James was a mathematician, born in then British Guiana. He was a scholar who held degrees and teaching certificates in Theology, mathematics, Greek, Latin, Logic, Philosophy, and Social Science. Dr. James was a brilliant Scholar whose thinking transcended the boundaries of traditional academic thought. He had reexamined his own views of African History and Greek Civilization after reading the writings of C.H. Vail, Swinburne Clymer, E.A Wallis Budge, Godfrey Higgins and others. According to a former colleague, the noted historian Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, these and other writings had a profound impact on James. See-‘ Anthony T. Browder-Nile Valley contributions to Civilisation’.”

Therefore, George G.M James began to study the undoing of the ultra racist historical narratives within the high education of his era ( the colonial era of the Atlantic Slave trade, the founding of the current Americas and the enrichment of colonising Europe during the establishment of slavery). Narratives created by the fabrications about all things worthy, fabrications that provided a twisted worldview intended to envelop the scholarship that Africans would digest and regurgitate. ‘Learning’ that, if not challenged, would be absorbed and consumed into creating the certified and capable tool of ‘the Colonial school’ of tutored beings rather than liberating their masses, that would become, in the majority, the guardians of the master’s interests.

James’s book would explore the Ancient Time-Lines of the vast knowledge accredited to the appointed long-dead Fathers of disciplines-Pythagoras, Plato, Democritus etc. However, the (contradicting) social response and deadly attitude to Greek philosophers by the Greek city-states tell a different story. “The indictment and persecution of Greek Philosophers is a circumstance which is familiar to all of us. Several (Greek) philosophers, one after another, were indicted by the Athenian Government on the common charge of introducing strange divinities. Anaxagoras, Socrates, and Aristotle received similar indictments for a similar offence. The most famous of these was that against Socrates, which reads as follows. “Socrates commits a crime by not believing in the Gods of the city and introducing other new divinities. He also commits a crime by corrupting the youth.”

Now to find out what these new divinities were, we must go back to the popular opinion that Aristophanes (423 B.C), in the clouds, aroused against him. It runs as follows: Socrates is an evil doer, who busies himself with investigating things beneath the earth and in the sky, and who makes the worse appear, the better reason. And who teaches others these same things. It is clear that Socrates offended the Athenian government simply because he pursued the study of astronomy and probably that of geology; and that the other philosophers were prosecuted for the same reason. But the study of science ( that included alchemy) was a required condition for membership in the Khemetic (Egyptian) Mystery system, and its purpose was the liberation of the soul from the ten bodily fetters. And if the Greek philosophers studied the sciences, then they were fulfilling a required condition of the Khemetic (Egyptian) mystery system and its purpose; either through direct contact with Egypt or its schools or Lodges outside its territory.”-George G.M. James –STOLEN LEGACY-1954.

STOLEN LEGACY…was thoroughly scrutinised by a large group of African, Asian and European scholars in the areas of Egyptology, Paleontology, Linguistics, History, Theology, Philosophy, Science, Law, Metaphysics, political science …etc in its original manuscript format, and met the approval of most. Dr. James was a Professor at Arkansas A. & M. and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1954. He died under mysterious circumstances shortly after the publication of Stolen Legacy.

Stolen legacy is an ideal emancipation gift to self or others, some copies should still be at Austin’s Book Services, and Anthony T. Browder’s Book ‘Nile Valley Contributions to Civilisation’ is an excellent addition to a seeker’s library, through the net. Somehow, George G. James must be added to our Repository of history, social anthropology and significant Cultural Awareness published categories. If such does not exist, then we should not hesitate to develop one. Posterity demands it.