How Does Black Orientalism Distort African History?
Black orientalism can be defined as the intellectual and cultural movement and primarily within African-American circles. Orientalism, a term coined by Edward Said in 1978 refers to the study of the orient (East Asia and N. Africa) the Occident (the west). Historians, writers, scientists from the west have in recent times given biased observation and depicted the orient in rather a patronizing and self-serving way thus eroding the African history.