The Afrocentric Controversy Clyde Ahmad Winters The attacks on
Afrocentricism by Eurocentrists are unfounded. The scientific
research methods support the findings of the Afrocentrists, and
not the Eurocentrists. Controversy surrounds the legitimacy of
ancient Afrocentric history. Recently this debate has been
mainly between Europeans and include Lefkowitz, D'Souza, and
Bernal . In the recent debate on Afrocentrism Lefkowitz and
Bernal have argued about the legitimacy of this method of
Africalogical research. D'Souza and Lefkowitz assert that the
Afrocentric claims of Africans in ancient Greece and the
Egyptian influence over Greece are nothing more than
"Afrocentric mythologies of the ancient world" . And, as a
result, Lefkowitz claims that the Afrocentrists are not teaching
history. Lefkowitz, writes that there were no Egyptians in
ancient Greece whereas the archaeological evidence makes it
abundantly clear that Egyptians were in Greece hundreds of years
before the coming of the Indo-Europeans. The archaeolo