The Spearhead on Instagram: "Dr.Yosef Ben-Jochannan: Africa Civilized Europe The period of European colonial presence in Africa is known among sovereign African historians as the Maafa – a Kiswahili word which means “Great Disaster”. It is so called because of the terror and destruction that defined this period. Africa’s indigenous development was interrupted, its monuments vandalized, its treasures looted, its knowledge systems suppressed and its history distorted by an alien culture which had