Afrikan history before 1619 is far deeper, more powerful, and more liberatory than mainstream narratives ever acknowledge. The Anglo-American educational system has long anchored the Afrikan experience in the so-called “New World” to one date: 1619. However, that anchor is arbitrary. It is anglocentric. Furthermore, it erases centuries of Afrikan resistance, self-liberation, and nation-building that demand our full attention and respect.

In 1526, enslaved Afrikans at San Miguel de Guadalupe — in what the Spanish called Florida — launched a successful rebellion. They drove off their captors. They won their freedom. As a result, they became permanent settlers in the western hemisphere long before any British colony took root. Throughout the 1500s and into the early 1600s, Afrikan people established the first free Black republics and settlements of the modern era. Most importantly, these acts of resistance were not isolated. They formed a continuous tradition of Abibifahodie — Black liberation — written in Afrikan blood, courage, and collective will. In addition, the transatlantic trade in enslaved Afrikans itself began as early as 1441, pushing the true timeline back nearly two centuries before 1619.

How Ɔbenfo Kambon’s Afrikan-Centered Analysis Reclaims the Full Timeline

Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon — master linguist, Pan-Afrikan scholar, and architect of Abibitumi — dismantles the 1619 framework with precision and power. He replaces anglocentric periodization with a rigorously Afrikan-centered analysis rooted in Ma’at. Furthermore, Ɔbenfo Kambon draws a direct line from the ancient Kmtyw through the resistance movements of the 1500s to our liberation struggles today. This is not revision for revision’s sake. Rather, it is the restoration of truth. His work equips Afrikan people globally — scholars, students, parents, and community builders — with the intellectual tools to see our full story clearly and act accordingly.

This lecture is an essential resource for every serious student of Afrikan liberation. In it, Ɔbenfo Kambon challenges us to reject borrowed timelines and build our analysis from Afrikan ground. Abibitumi exists precisely for this purpose — to center Afrikan knowledge in service of Afrikan freedom. Therefore, do not let this pass you by. Watch this presentation, share it with your community, and invest in the scholarship that moves us toward Abibifahodie. Get it here for just $20: Watch / Get it here →