Black Athena The Fabrication of Ancient Greece

Examines the claims of Professor Martin Bernal who questions the assumption of the Europeaness of our civilisation placing instead the black Egyptians and Phoenicians at the centre of the West s origins. Black Athena examines Cornell Professor Martin Bernal s iconoclastic study of the African origins of Greek civilization and the explosive academic debate it provoked. This film offers a balanced, scholarly introduction to the disputes surrounding multiculturalism, political correctness and Afrocentric