SaintBishop:
I should be asking u that question, m0rons like u makes me sick with disgust.

Spits*

KAHBOOM:


Don't mind him.

Some people don't know that the black race occupied the farthest part of the world before the whites came.
As far away India is from Africa we have pure black tribe living there.The sidi and the sentinels.

White indians are trying to occupy the land of the sentinels the way the Japanese occupied the land of the indigenous blacks and wiped out every trace of there history.

Aconomist:
I real proud black person (like myself) doesn't need to be associated with his enemies (non-blacks) to feel good about himself. You don't even know who your people are. Akata.

jmoore:
The Igbo and Japanese words you listed, you failed to give their interpretations in both languages.

rosstiti:


Oh the race issue is ALWAYS at play when it comes to Africa's role in world history. Denying that is denying the most basic of realities.

This is a modern Ainu priest of modern Japan. He is a direct descendant of the first Japanese people who were black African.


Here is another Ainu man from Japan

rosstiti:


The Ainu people, who are still existing in the mountains of Japan, were the original settlers of Japan and they brought civilization to the region. Climatic adaptation led to the gradual lightening of their skin colour, in addition to intermarriage following the entry of some Mongoloid groups from less developed neighbouring regions of the time.

Rossinnki:


Their interpretations are not always the same. The similarities seem to have been based on word retention by memory as opposed to actual representation of the same meanings. But I have come across a list of same words and meanings. I'll see if i can find it to post later. Here is a list of same names Japan-Igbo, some with similar meanings.

Oniye- Japanese word meaning religious sacrifice
Onyinye- Igbo word meaning religious offering.

Uke- Japanese word meaning ‘attack’
Uke- Igbo word meaning ‘evil attack’

Be- Ancient Japanese word meaning community
Be- Igbo word meaning home

Suru- Japanese word meaning to ‘die clothes using a wooden mold’
Suru- Igbo word for saying one has ‘washed clothes’

Obinata- Japanese surname
Obinna- Igbo name

To- Japanese word for ‘and’
To- Igbo word for ‘grow’

Asuka- Japanese town
Nsukka- Igbo town

Oji- Japanese town
Oji- Igbo town

Ikina- Japanese surname
Ikenna- Igbo surname

Ibuka- Japanese surname
Ebuka- Igbo name

Ishioka- Japanese town
Ishi oka- Igbo phrase meaning, ‘the cub of a corn plant’

Tsujii- Japanese name
Osuji- Igbo name

Adachi-ku- Japanese city
Adachukwu- Igbo name

Adachi- Japanese name
Adachi- Igbo name

Otsu- Japanese town
Otu- Igbo town

Ara- Japanese feminine term
Ara- Igbo word meaning breast

Onishi- Japanese name
Onyishi- Igbo word for leader

Ozu- Japanese surname
Ozu- Igbo town

Obara- Japanese name
Obara- Igbo word meaning blood

Nanami- Japanese name
Nnamani- Igbo surname

Akechi- Japanese surname
Nkechi- Igbo name

https://igbodefender.com/2012/07/25/similarities-between-the-spellings-of-igbo-words-and-anglicized-japanese-words-japan-language/

mansakhalifa:


Lol... come on. Do those guys look 'black' or African to you??

They look like persons from the far North of Asia at best.

And FYI, sir the Ainu's are not related to the Japs I'm any way neither do they speak the same language- same way the Ryukyuans/Okinawans are not related to the Japanese. The Ainu's are a distinct ethnic group. Japanese as a language was forced on them same way we were made to learn how to speak in English several years ago.

Or why else do you think that the Japanese tried to get rid of their culture right after colonising their lands?

Did you know these?

And no, their origin lies to the very north of Asia
The Japanese are not ethnically homogeneous. Do not forget that too. There is a reason it is called an empire.

rossipki:
The widely accepted 'Out of Africa' theory of human settlement stipulates that the population of all the continents are descended from ancient African migrants, with their physical features changing over millenia to adapt to the environmental and climatic conditions in the new abodes.

Are the JAPANESE descended from migrants from ancient Nigeria?

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mansakhalifa:


No! The Ainus were never dark-skinned.

Vilgax:


you MIGHT be on to something...


but then again, it's most likely a pure coincidence.

firstly, although the words are similar, do they have similar meanings?

secondly, your time frame is slightly out of wack...
the "Out of Africa Theory" is speculated to have possibly started as early as 270,000 years ago and as late as 80,000 years ago. (Wikipedia);
whilst the major language family of West Africa (Niger-Congo language family) really took off during the Bantu Expansion which is believed to have taken place in at least two waves, between about 3,000 and 2,000 years ago.
so in essence, it's hard to rationalise that a language that wasn't really developed could be carried to the farthest frontier of the Asian continent and still have such similarities to the contemporary form of its parent language(s)...


thirdly, the fact that the Japanese language was developed in "relative" isolation has been widely debated.


in conclusion, you might be on to something...
but the criticism against your hypothesis is massively overwhelming.

mansakhalifa:


No! The Ainus were never dark-skinned.

And their appearing light-skinned has nothing to their mixing with 'Mongoloid groups' according to you.

Where do you get your (alternative)'facts' from, sir?

Beremx:
you are right! I have been reading about this topic on google for the last 30mins. There’s no where it was mentioned that the Ainus are dark skinned except for a Nigerian who wrote his own history that the Ainus are black Africans. Their skin doesn’t look dark to me. They might be Africans but not dark skinned.


https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/ainus-the-muurish-japanese-old-africans-of-japan-oguejiofor-annu/

Rossinnki:



The Black Presence in Early Japan

Although the island nation of Japan, occupying the extreme eastern extensions of Asia, is assumed by many to have been historically composed of an essentially homogeneous population and culture, the accumulated evidence (much of which has been quietly ignored) places the matter in a vastly different light, and though far more study needs to be done on the subject, it seems indisputable that Black people in Japan played an important role from the most remote phases of antiquity into at least the ninth century.

Meaningful indications of an African presence in ancient Japan have been unearthed from the most remote ages of the Japanese past.

To begin with, and as a significant example, a Feb. 15, 1986, report chronicled that: “The oldest Stone Age hut in Japan has been unearthed near Osaka. … Archaeologists date the hut to about 22,000 years ago and say it resembles the dugouts of African bushmen, according to Wazuo Hirose of Osaka Prefectural of Education’s cultural division. `Other homes, almost as old, have been found before, but this discovery is significant because the shape is cleaner, better preserved’ and is similar to the Africans’ dugouts.”

In 1923, anthropologist Roland B. Dixon wrote that “this earliest population of Japan were in the main a blend of Proto-Australoid and Proto-Negroid types, and thus similar in the ancient underlying stratum of the population, southward along the whole coast and throughout Indo-China, and beyond to India itself.” Dixon pointed out that, “In Japan, the ancient Negrito element may still be discerned by characteristics which are at the same time exterior and osteologic.”

http://www.noirguides.com/blackshogunofjapan.html

Beremx:
okay thanks for this article.

Griffelspawn:
This is so stupid. Are you guys completed brainless?? Of course the Japanese arent related to Nigerians you total dolt.

passion007:
This is preposterous to subsume entire cultures and civilisations under yours, simply because of similarities in spellings of words, never mind their meanings.

The primary problem on this thread is a preconception that the world is either white or black, therefore images of Ainus with vague phenotypic similarities to Africans is taken as some sort of proof that Ainus are descended from Africa. Laughable, if I'm honest.
All life started in Africa, but don't presume that earliest Africans looked like present day Africans, therefore the fallacy of this entire debate is comparing modern day groups to modern day Africans.

But I wish the OP would stop referring to this coincidence of similar sounding names as 'research ', that's a slap in the face of researchers everywhere

2010goingon:


Yes rightly said

Actually the African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory, recent single-origin hypothesis, replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin model is yet to be proven beyond doubt or rather assumed to be true untill proven wrong.

Hence why it is called out of Africa " theory / hypothesis / model " .

Also recent discoveries have created more questions

https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/news/2018/01/india-stone-tools-human-evolution-archaeology-science

And what the OP in his or her ignorance don't realise Africans in Paleolithic ( old stone age ) don't bear resemblance to modern day Africans , same way they don't bear resemblance to modern day Chinese Japanese Indians Europeans.

So entire credit for African civilization belongs to modern day Africans , same way entire credit for Indian , Chinese , Japanese , European etc civilization belongs to modern day Indians , Chinese , Japanese , Europeans etc respectively.

Trying to appropriate credit for achievements of other civilizations is a sign of inferiority complex on the part of few African individuals and a great insult to the various noteworthy African civilizations which nurtured and prospered in Africa.

It's like one is not happy with the achievements of one's own son , so he / she claimed another's son as own because they think he is better.

I am a African and I am proud of African civilizations which is rooted in Africa . Does a mother thrown away her child because some might think it to be inferior ?

Rossinnki:


Dude, I've been researching African history likely since before you were born, or while you were in nappies. The African civilizations you claim to be "proud of", I can school you in each and every one of them, including some you've never heard about. I have been educating folks on African history on this forum for the last decade at least. The idea that I am exposing the African presence in early civilizations across the world out of "inferiority complex" is laughable. If anything, it is out of "superiority complex''. Africa civilized the world. The data on that is incontrovertible.

2010goingon:


You could be bill gates himself , who can tell , anonymity in cyberspace is God send, one can pretend to be anyone.

Nobody here is a fool

If anybody is worth his salt

1. He / she will let the quality of his / her posts do the talking
2. He / she won't spend the last decade on a forum among anonymous posters achieving god knows what.
3. He / she would have best spend the time in real world to publish own accredited / peer reviewed papers / literature on his / her domain rather than spend time in a blog forum quoting uncredited sources from blogs and websites and making jingoistic claims .

Even then i really appreciate the motive behind your effort and applaud it but your execution and premise is flawed .

I know you will abuse me , feel free to do so , but I am hopeful you will realise my intention is not to discourage you but to push you towards the right way.

I wish you success and God bless you

mekysmart123:
Ancient Proto Japanese were Negroes of course, even up to Korea, and China, but linking them up to Nigeria is what we don't have reliable information yet.

2010goingon:


Yes rightly said

Actually the African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory, recent single-origin hypothesis, replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin model is yet to be proven beyond doubt or rather assumed to be true untill proven wrong.

Hence why it is called out of Africa " theory / hypothesis / model " .

Also recent discoveries have created more questions

https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/news/2018/01/india-stone-tools-human-evolution-archaeology-science

And what the OP in his or her ignorance don't realise Africans in Paleolithic ( old stone age ) don't bear resemblance to modern day Africans , same way they don't bear resemblance to modern day Chinese Japanese Indians Europeans.

So entire credit for African civilization belongs to modern day Africans , same way entire credit for Indian , Chinese , Japanese , European etc civilization belongs to modern day Indians , Chinese , Japanese , Europeans etc respectively.

Trying to appropriate credit for achievements of other civilizations is a sign of inferiority complex on the part of few African individuals and a great insult to the various noteworthy African civilizations which nurtured and prospered in Africa.

It's like one is not happy with the achievements of one's own son , so he / she claimed another's son as own because they think he is better.

I am a African and I am proud of African civilizations which is rooted in Africa . Does a mother thrown away her child because some might think it to be inferior ? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder . One has to be worthy to recognise and appreciate it.

passion007:


I couldn't have said it better. Touché. And I appreciate your pointing out the out-of-Africa theory, which I misrepresented as fact.

I've seen many similar propositions on this forum, seeking to rewrite other peoples history. Once you get past the arrogance of it, you quickly find the evidence is reeling in superficiality.
I've seen so called Igbo scholars favouring a Jewish origin of the Igbos based on little more than shared similarities in word spellings, but not in meaning or enunciation. That or a new spin to existing literature, notably Equiano Olaudah's book, or the bible .

The glaring error is not so apparent, it seems. Whilst they admit that ancient peoples of Eurasia have had aeons to evolve into their current phenotype, they think the peoples of Africa have remained exactly the same throughout this time, and therefore compare modern day non-African populations to modern day Africans. What a laugh.

There is more to human origin than linguistic similarity, and even if languages are similar, it does not prove commonality or genetic similarity. But because gene level investigations are few and far between in these parts, we will continue to deal with people like the OP who will vehemently push social media theories as incontrovertible evidence.