iarjhssIARJHSSIARJHSS2708-6267https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjhss.2023.v04i01.010ai-[t] m’ såati: An Ancient Kemetian Analysis of the Convenient and Inconvenient Truths of Racial Discrimination against and among Global AfricansAbdulKarimBanguraCODESRIA College of Mentors Dakar, Senegal & American University’s Center for Global Peace Washington DC 20012 USAIn the Call for Papers for this 2020 Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) conference on “Racism, Racial Inequality and the Struggles of the global African for survival in the 21st Century,” the following convenient truths are delineated as the historical signposts for racism against global Africans: (a) the enslavement and displacement of Africans, (b) the colonization of Africans, and (c) the integration of Africans into a bipolar global system. While not minimizing the magnitudes and ramifications of these aspects for the persistent racism against the global African, I also argue in this paper that the analysis of this phenomenon is incomplete without including the following two inconvenient truths: (1) the failure to heed the call of early Pan-Africanists to establish a Union of African States and (2) the existence of intra-racial discrimination and Black-on-Black violence. Thus, employing the Ancient Kemetian approach of ai-[t] m’ såati (meaning the “analysis of discrimination and hypocrisy”), I demonstrate that only by analyzing both the preceding convenient and inconvenient truths can Global Africans unearth the necessary African-centered answers to confront the ills of the racism that has and continues to be afflicted upon them. Consequently, instead of the slogan “Black Lives Matter,” which has become vacuous, I suggest the Ancient Kemetian notion of neb ānkh iw neter khe-t (meaning “every life is sacred”), which found its way into the tenets of the Abrahamic faiths—i.e. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—as the precept to guide global Africans in their fight against racism.