The most idiotic example of Afrocentric scholarship I have seen is a short article entitled “Who Homer Really Was.” The author (a black woman) claims that Homer’s poems were written by a committee of black Egyptian scholars.
“...claims that Homer’s poems were written by a committee of black Egyptian scholars”
Ha. That is patently ridiculous. No committee would have completed the poems. There would have been subcommittees. Then study groups. Yielding to focus groups. Which would have spawned discussion groups. And down through time ever splintering.
I’d not heard of that one, thanks VR.
by Eloise McKinney Johnson
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44324750
http://www.google.com/search?q=Who+Homer+Really+Was