According to the first link that you attached here, the
brief answer is that all of the white people who came to Africa (including the
Afrikaners) believed that white people had founded the ancient African
civilizations.
The idea here was that Africans were
inferior. Because they were inferior, there was no way that they could have created any
great civilizations. If the Africans did not create the civilizations, it made sense
that white people must have because (as all the white people thought they knew) white
people were simply better than everyone else.
This has been
a pretty common idea in the minds of European scholars (until recent times). It was,
for example, a major Nazi idea -- that all civilizations had been created by
Aryans.
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