That East African Civilization Called Sumer

My Q&A With Hermel Hermstein the author of Black Sumer

Ever since the Sumerian cuneiform scripts were deciphered in 1857, the fabled “land of the civilized kings” has never failed to garner the attention, and feed the imagination, of cult leaders, artists, adepts, mad men, linguists, science fiction writers, and dedicated dreamers from all walks of life.

What it actually failed to do is imbue credible Black scholars with the impregnable combination of confidence and acumen, that would have been needed to write a respectable book that is entirely dedicated to explaining the Africanness of anicent Sumerian civilization. All of that changed when Hermel Hermstein, who has 30 years in the study of ancient Sumer under his belt, released BlackSumer: The African Origin of Civilization in 2012. Hermstein has also published two subsequent works in his Black Sumer series (Black Sumer: The Physical Evidence Parts 1 and 2) where he further drives home the case for Sumer’s Kushite, and early West African origins.