african-americans knew so little about africa, or when they did know, their negative.ere w.body know wb do boys -- e.b. dubois? of course. when he published his landmark book "the souls of black folk," friend who came to atlanta university where he was was teaching at atlanta university at the time, and he gave the commencement address and at the address, he recounted the glorious history of african kingdoms below the sahara desert for upwards of 1000 years before the slave trade. ghana and mali and dubois wrote in his book "i was too astonished to speak to you talked about boaz suddenly waking him from the paralysis of the commonly held judgment taught to me in high school and too many were leading universities that africa had no history. those universities were harvard university and the university of berlin, which in the early 1900s the preeminent university in the western world, so he, quite possibly the greatest and most educated african-american in the country had no clue about africa's history. he viewed africa like african-americans generally viewed africa, this place of harbor is him, this pl