Calls grow to cancel Kevin Hart's comedy show in Egypt over 'Afrocentric' views: Some Egyptians have taken to Twitter accusing the US comedian of 'Blackwashing' Egyptian history

Hart, a popular US comedian, is a proponent of Afrocentrism, which advocates examining history through a lens that focuses on the role of Black Africans. Some followers say modern Egyptians have no claim to the country’s ancient history because they are the descendants of Arab invaders.

Modern Egypt was at various points in history part of the Greek, Roman and Arab empires. The country is an ethnically and religiously diverse nation of more than 100 million. Egyptians even claim ancestry from Circassians and Turks going back to the Ottoman Empire. There are also Egyptians of Nubian descent.

Some schools of thought claim that Coptic Christians, who number between 10 and 15 percent of Egypt’s population, are the most direct descendants of ancient Egyptians.

Hart’s critics from across Egypt have noted an interview the comedian gave where they say he claimed Africans were the kings of Egypt.

”We must teach our children the true history of Black Africans when they were kings in Egypt and not just the era of slavery that is cemented by education in America. Do you remember the time when we were kings?”

The remark has been slammed on Twitter. One user said: “You aren't welcome to Egypt. Egyptians aren't Africans. We're the real builders of the civilization, no one else."

“The Afrocentric is just a lie. They're liars. Egypt is our land not the Africans.”