History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day.
It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The role of history is to tell a people what they have been, and where they have been, what they are and where they are. The most important role that history plays is that it has the function of telling a people where they still must go and what they still must be. Dr. John Henrik Clarke, African Historian Sites and papers written or designed by the author of this page are indicated with a Links to other sites are indicated with a The purpose of this page is to examine research into the presence of Blacks outside of the African continent. Discussed here will be research into Africans in early Europe, Africans in the Pre-Columbian Americas and Africoid populations in Asia.