Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire is a book by Drusilla Dunjee Houston published in 1926. The book examines the history of the Cushite civilization of Africa. The book was unusual for its time period, in that it considered ancient African civilizations to be worthy of note and that Ethiopia was the origin of all human cultures.
The book is generally considered to have been inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois's 1915 book The Negro.
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