The term Nile Valley Civilizations is sometimes used in

Afrocentrism Afrocentrism is a worldview that is centered on the history of people of African descent or a view that favors it over non-African civilizations. It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their hist ...

Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanism is a nationalist movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all Indigenous peoples of Africa, indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atla ...

to group a number of interrelated and interlocking, regionally distinct cultures that formed along the length of the

Nile Valley The Nile (also known as the Nile River or River Nile) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa. It has historically been considered the longest river i ...

from its headwaters in

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

to its mouth in the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

. Introduced around 1970,Yosef Ben-Jochannan, African origins of the major "Western religions", African-American heritage series, Alkebu-lan Books, 197

/ref> it was popularized by Ivan Van Sertima in the 1980s and saw wide use in Afrocentric publications during the 1990s, e.g. Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam, ''Towards an understanding of the African experience from historical and contemporary perspectives'', University Press of America (1990); Runoko Rashidi, ''Introduction to the study of African clasical iccivilizations'' (1992), Walter Arthur McCray, ''The Black Presence in the Bible: Discovering the Black and African Identity of Biblical Persons and Nations'',

Urban Ministries Urban Ministries, Inc. (UMI) is an independent, African American-owned and operated Christian media company founded in 1970. UMI is based in Chicago and publishes Christian resources, including Sunday School and Vacation Bible School curricula, boo ...

Inc, (1995), etc.

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