₦airaland Forum

Hi there,
We have sympathy for those who say they dont accept our assertions for religious reasons. That is understandable. But those who accuse us of making undemonstrated assertions, researchwise and even call us charlatans based on what they have read here and there, are not fair to us, or to themslves. WE SAY WE DID 18 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND HAVE PUBLISHED TWO BOOKS OF OVER 500 PAGES EACH on this same topic. Our recent book which came out this year 2009, has already won two international awards in USA, and C-Span gave us 30 minutes free broadcast. If we were talkng nonsense none of that would have happened. So those interested in whether or not we proved our points should read the book. It is meaningless to make any serious judgement of our work or to accuse us of charlatanism without reading the book.

In continuation: My advise to those who continue to do hate messages and do not want to hear any thing good said about others, sadly, is this: What we have concluded in our book is that ancient Nigerians were the inventors of the phenomenon called culture as well as civilization. To this we have dedicated our previous book (500 pages) titled The Gram Code of African Adam: Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa's Lost Civilizations. This book was written after four years of field work research in the forests of Cross River State and fourteen years of Library resarch about Africa and various Nigerian and West African ethnic groups, most of which were referenced in the book as great world achievers. The book was presented to the international Media at former Nicon Hilton Hotel by the then Minister of Culture and Tourism who represented the former President and C-IN-C at the occasion. We expected at least the government of Cross River to support the project, but they did not. However, they took our information and designed from it a new Tourism Logo and advert content for the state. They invited Americans to come and do another research on top of our own, which came to nothing of course. That's Africa for you. Our new book has Igboland as case studies. If anyone doesnt like that, we have no appologies. Rather, this should inspire them to do what we have done for their own ethnic groups or countries, since we can't cover all ethnic groups or countries. God bless our country Nigeria.

Dear Nairaland people,
This is probably my last entry in this site because, as you may have noticed, all kinds of sites are opening up to discuss my book They Lived Before Adam, with special reference to my 30 mintutes broadcast on Span2 Book TV which was aired live on 18th July in USA and repeated on 30th August and 1st Sept 1009. Obviously none of you gentlemen and ladies has watched the video which can be googled and watched on U-Tube via C-Span Library, Daily Beast, and many many other links by simply typing in They Lived Before Adam C-Span Library or Catherine Acholonu They Lived Before Adam. I am therefore unable to give so much time to one site. Besides I am a full time researcher and cannot spare so much time on any one particular site. My entering this site was just to clear one or two misunderstandings. I will advice that those keenly interested in knowing what we wrote in our books should go on website of Catherine Acholonu Research Center www.carafriculture.org and order the books or download relevant articles on the subject. One parting word to the person asking about Ugwuele. Please google Prof F.N. Anozie's archaeological discoveries on Ugwuele in the 1970s. He is our reference on the issue.

In continuation, we can all see that this story is really not about the Igbo as an ethnic group alone. It's about West African Blacks, and all blacks. But in every research you must have a case study. You must give data. You can't be making wild claims. Those two discoveries cited above (that of the paleontologist and the Archaeologist) were key to our claim that we can say for sure that the first people to be called Homo (Man), were West Africans - the ancestors of the people who today go by the name Nigerians!

Thanks, Gamine. God Bless us all.

The connection with the Lake Chad story is this: A French Paleontologist team led by Prof. Michel Brunet found out recently that the ancestors of Homo Erectus lived in the Nigeria Chad Basin by 7million B.C. Archeologists discovered Homo Erectus in Igbo land dating to 1 million B.C. The connection is that it is the same people sojourning within the same Niger-Congo geographical area. Since the 7m year dating is the oldest ever discovered, older than the dating of similar finds in East Africa by over 4 million years, what this tells us is that the East Africa hypothesis of the origin of man no longer holds water. West Africa, the Nigeria/Chad area is the origin of mankind until any one proves the contrary. The Chad/Nig find also tells us that the Igbo Early Men were not migrants from East Africa, but rather NATIVES, and that they are PRODUCTS OF EVOLUTION. THEY EVOLVED FROM THEIR 7 MILLION YEAR ANCESTORS!

Lady, I don't think this statement is for my consumption? Or is it? Let's try and find out the best in all of us and be our brother's and sister's keeper. Demonizing hasnt helped us any. For all I know, research is proving that we are ONE PEOPLE afterall.

Yes, I am Catherine Acholonu. Ask your question, please.

Hi, people,
Just trying to answer some of your questions. First you know its hard to paraphrase a book of 500 pages and a research of 18 years in 30 minutes of TV talk. I wish you would get the book so you'll understand us the better. We have done two major books on this subject. The first, [i]The Gram Code of African Adam, was also a book of over 500 pages. Together both books make over 1000 pages. In the first book, which we wrote after working on the Ikom stone inscritions of Cross River State four four years, we concluded that the Garden of Eden included a large part of Nigeria, and we could say for certain that Eve lived in Cross River State for a while. In the most recent book we are saying that Adam was taken from eastern region of Nigeria to the Middle East. He was among the First people who lived in West Africa. These first People spoke a language that has survived in many continents of the world to this day, probably through Adam's children. That language is still spoken by the Kwa group of Niger-Congo Languages - Yoruba, Benin, Ashanti, etc -, but most especially by the Igbo arm of that language family. The Igbo of today are the people who have preserved to a large extent, the original language spoken by the First People. Their name 'Igbo' means 'Forest Dwellers' in Yoruba, and 'Most Ancient' (Gboo) in Igbo, and their ancient traditions say much about these First Humans. That is why we have used them as a case study of the First Humans who lived in West Africa - the Ancestors of Adam - who populated all of Africa and migrated from here to populate the rest of the world.

I do take kindly to constructive criticism. But no Nigerian likes to be told they can't say their mind, or that any field of human endeavour is off limits for them. Bartholomew has to get used to that. Then he has to challenge my work on issues, not on my being African, which is the only reason he keeps saying his mind shuts down at the preposterous nature of my conclusions. To disprove my conclusions he must read my work or at least the many reviews of it on the internet. Anything short of that is an insult on his readers' intelligence. Surely he wouldn't have any problem reading me if I wasn't an African. And if I was a Western Scholar, talking about Adam being a Westerner, he wouldn't be flinging hate mails at me. So for him to suggest he is not a racist, is like he doesnt know his intentions are all too obvious and that Africans are not children, but very, very intelligent people.