Tagged: University of Sankoré

“[Y]ou have been told that unless Europeans teach you, you haven’t been taught, but who told you that the first university built in all of Europe was built by Africans called Moors at what is called the University of Salamanca in Spain? Check it out. Europe’s first university. Not only were the stones put together like the stones and the bricks in most of the buildings here. I’m not talking about that aspect of the building. I’m talking about the [Western] educational system [being] nothing but a copy of the University of Djenné of ancient Ghana, which was burnt down and rebuilt as the University of Sankoré in the city of Timbuk, which the French later called Timbuktu. Then carried as the Africans called Moors conquered Iberia — now Spain, Portugal and southern France — and established there the university system. And as I said before, it was not the first. The earliest of the Greeks were trained in a place called the Subordinate Lodges of Croton and Delphi [and] the Subordinate or Grand Lodges in a place called Waset, which the Greeks later changed to Thebes [and] the current Arabs changed it to Luxor. But [were you taught] that in Greek philosophy? Did you get it in Greek history of European history? None whatsoever.” — Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan