They robbed us our culture an' our kings they dethrone

from Supercat – Every Nigger Is A Star on Rap Genius

Pre-colonial Africa had a large number of kingdoms, and many of them were destroyed by European colonizers.

All of these kingdoms are gone. See full-size version.

The process of colonization and enslavement often prevented African people from keeping their cultural traditions alive, and many of those traditions that did survive were appropriated by the colonizers.

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