"Sub Saharan African Civilizations"
(after the migration from the Hapi Valley in the 6th century B.C.E.)
There were
many other civilizations that had been established since our migration
from the Hapi Valley around the 6th century B.C.E..
"The
Nok culture of northern Nigeria, a civilization that existed from
approximately 500 B.C.E to about 500 C.E., is principally known for its
terracotta figures. Relatively little is known about the purpose of
these figures or the civilization that created such extraordinary
sculptural representations of its people...This work depicts a person
of high status wearing elaborate beaded jewelry, and with a crooked
baton on his right arm and a hinged flail on the left. These are symbols of authority also found in ancient Kemetic depictions of the Pharaohs and the god Osiris. The Nok culture existed during the late Pharonic period and intra-African trading could have spread Kemetic influences"
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It should be noted however that some people suggest that the Nok civilization may be over 500 years older (1,000 B.C.E). If this were the case it still makes sense, because the constant wars (the first World War- a race war) of the Caucasians since the Hyksos may have triggered an initial migration of some of our people into this region of West Africa and into the Americas. The disappearance of the Negroid element of the ancient Kemetic Late Period population noted in the study cited above (Goode 2009) is explained by the emergence of the Nigerian Nok civilization and visa versa. The ancient Nok civilization retained ancient Hapi Valley beliefs and principles in spirituality as demonstrated with the artwork presented above.
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The
problem with the latter part of the explanation given above as to how
Kemetic influence wound up in West Africa is impossible. There were no
people in West Africa to trade with prior to the Late period. In fact
much of West Africa was uninhabitable swamp land all the way up until
around 3-2 B.C.E.. Even after that climatic phase there is still no
evidence of people in tropical West Africa until the Kemetic Late Period
(when great biological change is attested by most anthropologist to
have occurred in ancient Kemet according to Godde 2009).
The production of iron was also a huge technological trait that characterized Hapi Valley civilization (particularly the later Kush). In fact it was the need for more firewood for iron production which helped sparked Kush to move it's capital from Napata to Meroe (further south). It was around this same time as the capital city switch in Kush that a large migration from Kemet into Sub Saharan Africa occurred. It was during the 6th century B.C.E. that iron smelting first entered West Africa. All of our people did not leave the Hapi Valley during the 6th century B.C.E.. A few tribes like the Wolof of Senegal left Kemet at much later dates like when the Arabs invaded in 639 C.E. (centuries after the fall of Dynastic Kemet).
The production of iron was also a huge technological trait that characterized Hapi Valley civilization (particularly the later Kush). In fact it was the need for more firewood for iron production which helped sparked Kush to move it's capital from Napata to Meroe (further south). It was around this same time as the capital city switch in Kush that a large migration from Kemet into Sub Saharan Africa occurred. It was during the 6th century B.C.E. that iron smelting first entered West Africa. All of our people did not leave the Hapi Valley during the 6th century B.C.E.. A few tribes like the Wolof of Senegal left Kemet at much later dates like when the Arabs invaded in 639 C.E. (centuries after the fall of Dynastic Kemet).
It should be noted however that some people suggest that the Nok civilization may be over 500 years older (1,000 B.C.E). If this were the case it still makes sense, because the constant wars (the first World War- a race war) of the Caucasians since the Hyksos may have triggered an initial migration of some of our people into this region of West Africa and into the Americas. The disappearance of the Negroid element of the ancient Kemetic Late Period population noted in the study cited above (Goode 2009) is explained by the emergence of the Nigerian Nok civilization and visa versa. The ancient Nok civilization retained ancient Hapi Valley beliefs and principles in spirituality as demonstrated with the artwork presented above.
Now ask white illusionist where
is the remnants of any civilization that they created while they were
all on their own without any "interference" from the races that they
feel are "inferior" in the Caucus mountains (wait patiently as they
claim that "everyone" was in a primitive state like them at the time)?
Ask these same whites why they did not depict any black people in the Flintstones.
One
of the most common notions that they (and some East Asians) have
regarding African history is that "Sub Saharan Africans" (the PC term
for black people) had not even invented the wheel...
While not in "Sub" Saharan Africa the Tassili-n-Ajjer ancient Saharan rock art (dating back to 8,000 B.C.E.) in Algeria
below clearly showing our people when we lived in Northern Africa not
only with the "wheel" but the beloved "chariot" that they enthusiastically claim to have "introduced" into civilization upon their arrival.
Whites
have took the lie of who we are in regards to history a step further by
creating a matrix for World history that relegates every group to the
current area of their residence. This is why "West Africans", "Central
Africans", and "Southern Africans" are called such and no other name is
given for our group other than our contemporary geographic location (hence no
collective identity). With this lie they ignore the earlier genesis of
our people on the Hapi Valley in Nubia and Kemet and the subsequent
migrations from out of Africa.
Many simply cannot handle this truth. A
common retort by ignorant whites in light of this pain is to accuse
those people who are reporting on this ancient glory of our people of
being ashamed of the relatively recent history in Sub Saharan Africa.
Understand that these whites through their
culture that promotes sheer ignorance are saying in fact that they view
the recent achievements of Sub Saharan African civilizations as sub-par
to all civilizations on Earth, and that they think that blacks are not
aware of their attempted mockery of our recent predicament as a result
of their inherently wicked nature.
They are refusing to acknowledge our early legacy along the Hapi, and
then saying that the only thing that we have done in history is that in
which they saw in the areas that we lived when they arrived in the 16th
century
"The reason so much emphasis has been put on Kemet, it is where ancient civilization reached its zenith. It is also the place that many European
classicists scholars have declared war against the reality of the
original inhabitants being indigenous Afrikans, and that the arts and
sciences, which are now practiced throughout the world, were created by
these same black people. This is totally unacceptable to these European
and Arab scholars who will never admit what they already know."
Considering
the fact that "Sub Saharan" Africa has been the home (for most of us)
for over the last 2,500 years we have in that time frame created an
entirely new genesis of civilizations that retain the principal
traditions and ideals of that which were taught in our more splendid (I
say "more" because the migration into Sub Saharan was more so like a
refugee situation where we left our original home) ancient past along
the Hapi, and that most certainly is something to take immense pride in our people for.
White people like to pretend that when
they came into "Sub Saharan" Africa (where we recently migrated to) to
colonize it after befriending us for 400 years that there were no
civilizations.
Below : Europeans bowing down before Africans
Kingdom of Benin
"Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting...In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon;
all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses
are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and
has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”
In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.....
Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa –
notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals,
with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house
itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically
predictable patterns.
As he puts it: “When Europeans first came
to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus
primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet."
“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper.
Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.
"A series of walls marked the incremental growth of the sacred city from 850 AD until its decline in the 16th century...Connah estimated that its construction, if spread out over five dry seasons, would have required a workforce of 1,000 laborers working ten hours a day seven days a week. Ewuare also added great thoroughfares and erected nine fortified gateways.
Excavations also uncovered a rural network of earthen walls 4 to 8 thousand miles long that would have taken an estimated 150 million man hours to build and must have taken hundreds of years to build.
Wall of Benin
Top image shows the Fon art on the left hand side, which is reminiscent
in its theme, of the ancient Egyptian wall relief of Rameses smiting an
enemy on the right hand side. Bottom image shows another example of
parallels between west Sahelian/Sub-Saharan art [likely Benin carving] —
sporting the head of some carnivorous creature [likely a feline of some
sort] on the left hand side, and two ancient Egyptian figurines — one
sporting a falcon head, and the other, a feline; what stands out here,
is the remarkably similar standing postures, particularly what they are
doing with their arms and hands.
In Togo, Benin and Nigeria, the Kutito (among Gbe speaking people) and
Egungun (among Yoruba speaking people) are masked dancing ancestors
returning to earth to help and punish living people. Jean Charles Coovi
Gomez pointed out that this ceremony was exactly the same as what we
know of Kemetic "raising the Djed Pillar Ceremony".Egungun ,the Yoruba
name of the ceremony means "bone, skeleton". In Kmt, the Djed pillar was
considered as the backbone of the neter Ausar. There is ample evidence
for mummification in traditional Africa. Félix Dubois reported it among
Songhoi people, M.Delafosse among Baule(Akan) people of Ivory Coast,
A.M.L Desplagnes among the Dogon and Mossi, J.C.C.Gomez among the
Yoruba.
Mummy of the Obi Ijeh of Idumuoghu,Ibusa, Nigeria From Oscar Pfouma "Histoire culturelle de l'Afrique Noire":
Mummy of the Obi Ijeh of Idumuoghu,Ibusa, Nigeria From Oscar Pfouma "Histoire culturelle de l'Afrique Noire":
