George James was a professor at a small black college in Arkansas during the 1950s when he wrote this book.
James had found that philosophy was almost entirely from ancient Egypt and.
Their biggest mistake, according to James, was they had assumed philosophy had started with the Greeks.
He soon realized something was wrong with the way the history of philosophy had been documented by Western scholars.
Originally from Guyana, he was an intellectual who studied African and European classics.
George James was a professor at a small black college in Arkansas during the 1950s when he wrote this book