I have been seeing this claim more and more in conservative and even some mainstream spaces, things like “Africans never created the wheel” or that the continent has no “real” languages or alphabets. I even heard Nick Fuentes say something similar in a debate with Candace Owens. The thing is, it is not hard to disprove with a basic search. Africa has multiple indigenous scripts (Nsibidi, Ge’ez, Meroitic, Vai, etc.) and societies had advanced technologies suited to their environment. So I am curious: where did this talking point originate, and why is it still being repeated? Is it just a lazy meme, or is there some ideological source that keeps pushing it? Not trying to debate here, just genuinely want to know who started spreading that stereotype and why it stuck around.   submitted by   /u/Ok_Bodybuilder_2384 [link]   [comments]