The Black Celts – The African Substratum Theory by Ibrahim Ali published July 2021. Introduction Having spent over two decades researching this topic, I believe it is finally time for Irish and British academics to discard the term ‘Celtic’ when referring to ancient people of these islands. The Black Celts – The African Substratum Theory 2021, aims to counter the ‘fake’ identity imposed on the inhabitants of Ireland and Britain by Abbe Paul Yves Pezron and Edward Lhuyd. The Cymry (ancient Britons) and the Gaels never called themselves ‘Celts’ and there wasn’t any significant Celtic’ migrations into these islands. New research techniques have confirmed Bob Quinn’s Atlantean Theory – these islands were cosmopolitan; composed of people who had more in common with the people of northwest Africa and the southern Mediterranean. Have an open mind; maybe all the things you have been taught about the ‘Celts’ has been incorrect. Maybe the ‘Celts’ or Gauls did not inhabit these islands. Imagine, for a moment, that Abbe Paul Yves Pezron (1639-1706), a Breton theologian from France invented this fake ‘Celtic’ identity. Have the Gaels, Scots, and Cymry been fooled into accepting a false identity? Add to this the 19 th century ‘Celtic’ revival when the fake ‘Celtic’ identity was firmly adopted. This ‘alien’ identity was cleverly imposed on the people and embraced by co-operative academics. Through a grand conspiracy, an ‘alien’ identity was imposed onto the Gaels, Cymry, and Scots. An identity that was composed of tall, blond Aryan ‘Celts’ with blue eyes, arriving in waves from Central Europe. The new arrivals were supposed to belong to an ’Aryan’ race and were supposed to be cousins of the Anglo-Saxons This narrative still dominates academia and forms the backbone of the current Eurocentric ‘colonial’ syllabus. However, the colonial British Empire’s representation of the Irish people was very contradictory. Let me bring to your attention the 19th century British publications, such as Punch and The London Illustrated News, which produced cruel caricatures of the Irish people. They were depicted as apes, a tactic aimed at shaping public opinion by propagating hatred: the same tactic used by Giraldus Cambrensis a thousand years earlier. At the same time colonial academics successively promoted the idea of the ancient ‘Celts’ as Aryans - while at the same time dehumanizing the modern Irish. The colonial attempt at eradicating the Irish language was primarily designed to be the coup de grâce - the final blow to Irish identity. However, the Gaeltacht regions survived and still flourish today. Many scholars have challenged the colonial narrative. Bob Quinn’s contribution is the most important because it documents how an Irishman rejected this fake ‘Celtic’ identity that was imposed on them.