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THE SEARCH FOR AFRICAN GENESIS PART I
Everywhere one sees a Blackman, there is always one common conclusion that is drawn about his features with the other uncountable Blacks found everywhere in the world. One recognizable feature is on the appearance; it does not matter the colour differences. For instance, Africans have similar language features (of course, linguists argue that African languages are not only characterized by the historic “Kwa” feature, greater among the languages in Africa are characterized “Head initial” unlike the English which is head final), hair types, nose and general feature that dully differentiate Africans from other races. From all indications, taking from the various features characteristic of Africans, it had been very difficult to identify a particular genesis for the Black nations.
Different schools have different suggestions for the African origin. The adherents of Christian religion attempt to fashion an origin for Africa tracing the Blackman from Kush, who was the son of Noah, of the linage of Adam. The Kushite crusaders had their claims that Kush had one of his sons whose name referred to Black. This idea led to the suspicion that ancient Egypt could be the African homeland. This conclusion taken from the Bible historians and Kushite crusaders held the African historical stage for centuries. It became encompassing when the unceasing activities of archaeologists and paleontologists, added to oral histories and evidences found among other ancient kingdoms in Africa discovered that Egypt was actually a colony of an ancient civilization that traced its route to west Africa; where possibly the ancient Egypt might have migrated from.
The most astounding confusion is found in the works of the British born paediatrician and geneticist, Stephen Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer claimed that the genesis of the African race is traced towards the Ethiopian region. This may not be too far to get to his reason for drawing this conclusion. His reason, apart from whatever observations he may have made, bothers on the simple idea that a set of bones was found in Ethiopia and was estimated to have lasted for four million years. But, could that be the reason to conclude that African genesis to be Ethiopia? This is still very dicey to be true, tracing from Ethiopian history. Oppenheimer created a projectile image to defend his claim of the global genesis. The picture is shown below.
Can this be a substantial proof for the African genesis? It cannot be. Any people occupying the birthplace of the African continent must have the proof of having not emigrated from any place. Such aboriginal corner should as well embody the history of the dispersal of the sister nations, at least, within Africa. Instances of probable migration out of such heartland should be found the latter. Ethiopia does not have this kind of aboriginal feature. To prove Oppenheimer wrong, the history of Ethiopia reveals that the earliest tribe is the Kambata; the population that settled in the Afar region of Ethiopia. Kambata here is an Igbo word which means, “Let me enter/settle”. The oral tradition of these earliest settlers reveals the same situation. And as was revealed in the book, Reality as Myth, Kambata was among the first travelers to leave West Africa to settle in the region of the Nile River. What Oppenheimer cannot talk about is the aspect of the African oral tradition.
This uncanny situation contributed in placing the African child in a relative hopeless situation towards deciphering his original home. It equally brought about the question of where exactly is the African east; the very position where the sun rises
Different schools have different suggestions for the African origin. The adherents of Christian religion attempt to fashion an origin for Africa tracing the Blackman from Kush, who was the son of Noah, of the linage of Adam. The Kushite crusaders had their claims that Kush had one of his sons whose name referred to Black. This idea led to the suspicion that ancient Egypt could be the African homeland. This conclusion taken from the Bible historians and Kushite crusaders held the African historical stage for centuries. It became encompassing when the unceasing activities of archaeologists and paleontologists, added to oral histories and evidences found among other ancient kingdoms in Africa discovered that Egypt was actually a colony of an ancient civilization that traced its route to west Africa; where possibly the ancient Egypt might have migrated from.
The most astounding confusion is found in the works of the British born paediatrician and geneticist, Stephen Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer claimed that the genesis of the African race is traced towards the Ethiopian region. This may not be too far to get to his reason for drawing this conclusion. His reason, apart from whatever observations he may have made, bothers on the simple idea that a set of bones was found in Ethiopia and was estimated to have lasted for four million years. But, could that be the reason to conclude that African genesis to be Ethiopia? This is still very dicey to be true, tracing from Ethiopian history. Oppenheimer created a projectile image to defend his claim of the global genesis. The picture is shown below.
Can this be a substantial proof for the African genesis? It cannot be. Any people occupying the birthplace of the African continent must have the proof of having not emigrated from any place. Such aboriginal corner should as well embody the history of the dispersal of the sister nations, at least, within Africa. Instances of probable migration out of such heartland should be found the latter. Ethiopia does not have this kind of aboriginal feature. To prove Oppenheimer wrong, the history of Ethiopia reveals that the earliest tribe is the Kambata; the population that settled in the Afar region of Ethiopia. Kambata here is an Igbo word which means, “Let me enter/settle”. The oral tradition of these earliest settlers reveals the same situation. And as was revealed in the book, Reality as Myth, Kambata was among the first travelers to leave West Africa to settle in the region of the Nile River. What Oppenheimer cannot talk about is the aspect of the African oral tradition.
This uncanny situation contributed in placing the African child in a relative hopeless situation towards deciphering his original home. It equally brought about the question of where exactly is the African east; the very position where the sun rises
THE SEARCH FOR AFRICAN GENESIS PART 3
Tracing the Ancestors’ Paths.
From the discussions in the chapters above, it is apparent that African ancestors had paths that led to a destination which could be regarded as their homeland. Obscurity brought about by the passage of time had timely eluded these paths from being very obvious to sights. Beside the allusion, one practical thing that had remained too convincing had been the reference to the earth.
"No matter where we collect legend on the genesis of the Black African people, those who still remember their origins say they came from the east and their forbearers found pygmies in the country. Dogon and the Yoruba legends report that they came fromthe east,(Civilization, 179)"
"No matter where we collect legend on the genesis of the Black African people, those who still remember their origins say they came from the east and their forbearers found pygmies in the country. Dogon and the Yoruba legends report that they came fromthe east,(Civilization, 179)"
THE SEARCH FOR AFRICAN GENESIS PART 4
The Path of the Sun.
The relevance of the rising sun is that it serves as the ultimate pointer to the direction of the east. And because the sun is very essential to live; animals and plants, it therefore became expedient that it should be the marker of the very birth place of the human race. As mentioned above, “those who still remember their origins say they came from the east.” People must have come from the north, south and west, but one thing remarkable is that the people who came from the east appeared to have lived earlier than people in the south, west and north. This is because live started in the east. Invariably, we may assert that the people, who still inhabit the east, if people still live there, should be the aboriginal inheritors of the motherland. The task becomes how may we locate this east and probably identify the lives still in it? Should it be Egypt, Nubia or Ethiopia?
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