Native Americans are currently fighting law suits in American courts in areas of their interests. They attempt to get the courts to agree with their arguments and award them settlements and repatriations. They have had success with similar claims in the past.

African American families that are direct descendants of the Native American should also fight for their part of the settlements and repatriations.

There’s a proposition to all law students out there. Here we are talking about fitting ourselves into a multi billion dollar project that will employ thousands of professionals from all different backgrounds, especially law.

It’s all about the norms of society.

There cannot be two different drivers of a single automobile.

Think of the family unit as a vehicle. A vehicle needs a driver to help create a forward/backward motion.

Some women are born to be leaders both at home and anywhere else, I know. However, normally the male partner is known as the default leader of our homes.

Nigerian men are essentially African men, In Africa and almost everywhere else in the world, the male partner is known as the head of the family unit.

When I was a bachelor, if you gave me a partner millionaire that doesn’t respect me as head of her home, and I instantly will run away faster than Usain Bolt in search of better half.

Show me my partner that is not too rich, not too poor, yet, respects me as the head of our home and I will instantly become the happiest person alive.

I am currently happily married.

Men and Women are philosophically equal; as in, their total input in a family unit is normally equal.

That doesn’t contradict the fact that in Africa and almost everywhere else in the world of today, the male partner is head of the home.

Partnership or marriage is a team thing. All and every successful team is bound to have a boss.

Without a boss there are no rules, absence of rules leads to lawlessness. Lawlessness leads to lack of discipline; and absence of a disciplined family unit leads to all sorts of problems.

It’s all about the norms of society.

There cannot be two different drivers of a single automobile.

Think of the family unit as a vehicle, some women are born to be leaders both at home and anywhere else I know, however, normally the male partner is known as the default leader of our homes.

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Nigerian men are essentially African men, In Africa and almost everywhere else in the world, the male partner is known as the head of the family unit.

I am happily married.

When I was a bachelor, if you gave me a partner millionaire that doesn’t respect me as head of her home, and I instantly will run away faster than Usain Bolt in search of better half.

Show me my partner that is not too rich, not too poor, yet, respects me as the head of our home and I will instantly become the happiest person alive.

I am currently happily married.

Men and Women are philosophically equal; as in, their total input in a family unit is normally equal.

That doesn’t contradict the fact that in Africa, the male partner is head of the home.

Partnership or marriage is a team thing. All and every successful team is bound to have a boss.

Without a boss there are no rules, absence of rules leads to lawlessness. Lawlessness leads to lack of discipline; and absence of a disciplined family unit leads to all sorts of problems.

THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN GODS - THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS


ACCRA - W.E.B. DU BOIS CENTER - JULY 10, 1998

by Professor Molefi Kete Asante


I am pleased that you have come to hear my lecture tonight and I want to thank the organizers of this event for their diligence and generosity. In particular I would like to publicly thank Dr. Kofi Anyidiho, and Executive Director Moore, the staff and the Board of the DuBois Center for making this occasion possible. I give praise to Nyame, Asase Yaa, and the Nananom nsamanfo for whatever clarity I am able to share with you.

I shall begin my lecture with a conclusion: Until an African leader publicly acknowledges, honors and prays to an African God, we Africans will continue to be viewed as pathetic imitators of others, never having believed in ourselves.

So powerful is the concept of religion when we discuss it in connection with civilization that to deny the validity of one's religion is to deny the validity of one's civilization. Indeed to deny one's religion as valid is to suggest that the person is a pagan, a heathen, uncivilized, and beyond the sphere of humanity. So to talk about religion is to talk about our views of ourselves, our understanding of our ancestors, and our love of our culture.
To establish my argument that we have a crisis in civilization because we have a crisis in religion I will make several points dealing with the themes of tradition, history, religion, and human action.

Traditions

There are no people without traditions and traditions are the lifeblood of a people. A people who refuse to express its love and appreciation for its ancestors will die because in traditions, if you are not expressing your own, you are participating in and expressing faith in someone else's ancestors. No person is devoid of an attachment to some cultural fountain. Whose water are we drinking?

Our African history has been a recent escapade of forgetfulness. We have often lost our memories and accepted the gods of those who enslaved and colonized us. This is something the Chinese and the Indians have fought hard to keep at bay. While we have often embraced our enemies' gods they have found those gods to be anathema to their interests. Show me the gods we Africans worship and I will show the extent of our moral and ethical decay.

Those who speak to us of Christian or Islamic morals have often been the very ones who had defiled our ancestors' memories and called out sacred rites paganism. Malcolm X once said that the world pushes the African around because we give the impression that we are chumps, not champs, but chumps, weaklings, falling over ourselves to follow other people rather than our own traditions.

The distribution of religion represents the distribution of power. African distribution is minimal and exists in a few places in the diaspora like Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica and the American South. The religion that people practice is based on the influences that have captured their imaginations. In the American South and the Caribbean and in South America one will often find the Yoruba religion. It is Africa's most powerful religious export to the Americas, but this is still a minimal influence when one considers the fact that others have imposed their religions on us and we have accepted the imposition often without a fight from our traditional leaders. Indeed our traditional religious leaders have often been hijacked by the material goods offered by the purveyors of these migrating gods.

History

The great African pharaoh, Menes, united the two lands (TAWY) bringing 42 clans or nomes under one government around 3100 B.C. By this time already Africans had formulated the first human response to the unknown. If anything we knew God before anyone else, not because we were wiser but because we were first to be civilized.


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Menes (or Narmer) First Dynastic Pharaoh of Egypt - 3100 BC


If you take any of the scientific reports we know that the first hominids were from Africa. Australopithecus afarensis is 4,200,000 years old and Australopithecus ramidus, 3,800,000. When Richard Johnason discovered Dinqnesh, later called Lucy, by the Europeans, he claimed to have found the earliest example of a hominid in Ethiopia. Until 75,000 years ago all humans were black. Did they have an appreciation for the almighty? Did they formulate a response to the unknown? Of course they did; they were human and human before anyone else.

Our ancestors brought forth the first civilizations and gave the world the oldest organized cosmological explanations. Thus, Ra as Ptah, Atum, Amen, Khepera, Khnum - the many names of the one, the Supreme, created Shu and Tefnut, air and moisture, Geb and Nut, earth and sky. Then came Ausar, Auset, Nebhet, and Set. Ausar was killed by his brother Set and Auset put him back together with the assistance of her sister, Nebhet and her son, Heru, who avenged his father by killing Set. This is the story of good over evil.

The purpose was to create Maat, balance, harmony, justice, righteousness, reciprocity, order. These are the key concepts in any ethical system and the fact that they emerged first in the Nile Valley of Africa suggests that other ideas, related to these ideas, found their way into the very practices and beliefs of our people throughout the continent. The deliberate attempt by the European to separate Africans from the classical civilizations of the Nile is one of the biggest falsifications in history. Only when we reclaim our history will we be able to see that the origins of many religious ideas are African. How is it that the parent has become the child?
Thus, not only do we have the earliest emergence of God, we have the first ethical principles, reinforced by proverbs, and refined in the oral and artistic traditions of our narratives.

The ancient name of Egypt was Kemet and it was the culmination of classical Africa's achievements in science, art, architecture, medicine, astronomy, geometry, and religion. The Greeks honored the Africans as the originators of the science and art practiced by the Greeks themselves. It would be the Europeans of the 15th through 19th centuries that would try to divorce Egypt from its African origin and deny Africa any role in civilizing the world.

The early Greek historian, Herodotus claims that nearly all of the Greek gods came from Africa. We know that the Greeks worshipped Imhotep as Aesclepius, the God of Medicine, and that the name Athens, Athena, is from Aten.

When Constantine in 325 A.D. took ideas from African spirituality and created a control mechanism at Council of Nicea he was trying to organize a system for using African spiritual ideas. The early Christian church had to deal with the fact that Christians had used many African ideas, the son of God, eternal life, and the resurrection, in their religion. The sad fact is that since we have forgotten so much we do not know that we are the originators of religion.

The abandonment of our history, indeed the abandonment of our gods, the gods of our ancestors, have brought us deep into the quagmire of misdirection, mis-orientation and self pity. When the missionaries forbade our shrines and punished us in the Americas when we called the names of our gods and sounded our mighty drums they were looking for the Pavlovian reaction they finally got in millions of Africans: African is bad, it is inferior, it is pagan, it is heathen. We often hear others cursing our ancestors in ways the Chinese, the Lebanese and the British would never allow. Why is this? Are we truly shamed by our military defeat? Can we no longer think about how right our ancestors were in exploring human nature and positing ways to combat the unknown? Cannot we create new forms out of the old mold or must we throw away the mold?

What would be anymore pagan than the wanton willful destruction of millions of Africans, Jews, Native Americans, and Chinese by Christian Europeans? How could white men pray to a god on the second floor of a slave dungeon while on the first floor they held our ancestors, yours and mine, in horrible bondage? What kind of religion denied our humanity at the same time they were ra-ping our women, brutalizing our children, and demanding our wealth and our souls?

It is true that the idea of Christian names or Muslim names promotes and advances those cultures. Why must you change your name even if you chose to buy into a foreign religion? What is wrong with your name? Any religion that asks you to do what others do not have to do is asking you to abandon your mother. The question is, why would you abandon your mother?

Religion in General

What is religion but the deification of ancestors, the making sacred of traditions within the context and history. How can we honor any god who was used against us? The only people who accept alien gods are defeated people; all others honor and accept their own name for the Almighty. We must learn to appreciate ourselves and our traditions. What is wrong with the African God?

What would we think of a Yoruba who accepted Chinese ancestors as his own? We would find it quite interesting and wonder how it came to be. But what of Africans' acceptance of others' gods? Is there no tradition with these alien gods? Of course there is tradition with these gods! To accept the Jews' god or the Arabs' god or the Hindu's god and so forth is to valorize those histories above your own. Indeed, it is to honor the names in those myths and stories higher than your own stories, it is to love the language, the places in their stories above your own. Why is Mecca, Rome, or Jerusalem more sacred than Bosumtwi? Quite simply, it is imperialism, not by force of arms, but by force of religion which sometimes comes armed.

Joel Kotkin's Tribes - a book about people ready for the 21st Century claims that only Jews, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and British are ready. These groups have some commonalities which include (1) strong sense of identity, (2) international network, and (3) a passion for technology.

He does not include any African community or ethnic group. In fact, he believes that the African people were best organized under the leadership of Marcus Garvey who believed that Africans were not only capable of achieving without the whites; Africans had to achieve without whites in order to be seen as fully participating in the drama of history. Kwame Nkrumah believed in much the same idea.

Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations claims that there are six major civilizations: Chinese, Japanese, Orthodox, Hindu, Western, Islamic. He says each one has a nation that is vanguard, deeply committed to its religion and history. Africa has no such vanguard nation and furthermore Africa has yet to emerge from under the cloaks of its interventionists. Of 53 nations only one nation is more African in religion than either Christian or Muslim. That nation is small Benin.

Benin is 87% popular traditional African Religion. But it is a small nation with limited influence in a propaganda fashion. As such we do not expect African traditional religion to play a major part in the civilization of Africa for a long time to come, but we can begin to examine the questions, to raise the issues, and to interrogate our practices.

Let me explore African Religion with you to provide some common understanding.


African Religion

In the first place it is important that we call popular traditional African Religion everywhere by a common acronym, Ptare. This means that Akan, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu and Shona are the same religion with different branches. Just as Christians may be Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics, and just as Muslims may be Mourrides, Sunni, or Shiities. There is no difference in speaking of Ptare as one religion and speaking of Christianity or Islam as one religion.

I believe that Popular Traditional African Religion everywhere (Ptare) is as old as civilization, indeed, it is much older than either Christianity or Islam. The major characteristics of Ptare are found in all of the traditions from East to West and from North to South. The fact that we have often misunderstood the legacy we have inherited is not the fault of those who left it; it is our fault for preferring the oppressors' legacy over that of our own ancestors.


The characteristics of Ptare include:

Creator God

Domicile of Gods - Presence, Shrine

Priest/Priestess of God

Devotee of God - medium (Noc??)

Herbalist - Pharmacist

Psychiatrist - mental harmonizer

Diviner - scientist, Hunter's/explorers

All ritual in Ptare seek a return to Maat.
Everything is one - we are a part of the whole and nothing is disconnected from the Almighty. That is why we recognize Mother Earth as well as Nyame.

What Europe sees and teaches as limitations in Ptare are really advantages:
No vast interpretative literary corpus to say what is and what is not - Ptare's interpretations are often dependent on a multitude of situations that demand attention.

No concentration on the material manifestations of the God's house. All temples started as shrines and from the shrine place people build other edifices. Buildings should have some historical or religious significance.


Advantages of Ptare

The ethical principles are more conducive to community, not so geared toward individualism. Some religions demonstrate their power by showing what they can build but this is only a matter of financial not moral wealth. Are you more civilized because you can build a nuclear bomb?

We must not be impressed by the things which can be created because we are human and have the same capacity and can create the same things out of our own minds. But our African gods do not advance destruction. They have never been gods of death, but of life.

The material manifestations of religion are not the wisest standard of how good God is unless your god is money. The new religions seem to bring schools and hospitals but we have always had those institutions without calling them by those names. Now it is time that the practitioners of Ptare explain the interrelationship of the traditions of ordinary life in the context of institutions. Our entire existence is religion. Our shrines are sacred places on sacred land given by the ancestors. Our health is interconnected to our spirituality.

We Africans have always believed in a supreme deity whether the name was Nyame, Oludumare, Abasi, Nkulunkulu, Woyengi, Chukwu, Mawu and Lisa. This is true although others have said we did not. They have confused a lot of us.

When the white missionaries translated the bible in our languages, they asked our ancestors for the name of the Almighty and they used the names our ancestors had always used for the Almighty and then told us that we did not have a belief in the Supreme.

But we now know that our priests were no less wise in their observations than the Greek sophists, the Hebrew prophets, the Arab ulema, and the Chinese literati.

Our ancestors believed in pluralism without hierarchy --- many expressions of God without saying mine is right, or the only one, and yours is bad, pagan, and heathen. Perhaps had we done that we would have stopped the alien religions at the shore, but we are the world's first humanists and we allowed others to come with their goods and their gods.

They came with a political ideology in the name of religion. It was imperialism. Imperialism brings destruction, obliteration. How could we fall for it for so long? The introduction of a book or a gun caused us to lose our footing, to stumble on our way, to denounce our fathers and mothers.

There are no other people on the earth who have had to denounce their ancestors in order to become better people. Is it because our ancestors are so strong that we are forced to denounce them before our conquerors? This is one thing you shall never find me doing because I know too much about my African contribution to history.


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The fabled Libraries at Alexandria was commisioned by the Persian (Persia is modern day Iran) known as Alexander of Macedon.

Basically, most of clasified Khemetic intellectual property was kept and studied upon.

Greeks conquered Ancient Egypt and continued the ongoing foreign exploit of the people of Khemet and their lands; forming their own dynasty called the Ptolemaic Dynasty that ruled Ancient Egypt for nearly 300 years until 30 B.C.E.

At its peak, around 240 B.C.E Ptolemaic's Ancient Egypt expanded to control Libya, Palestine, Cyprus, and much of eastern Mediterranean Sea.

In 30 B.C.E the Romans took control of Ancient Egypt and ruled for over 600 years until 640 C.E

Eventually, the libraries became connected to a place of higher learning similar to modern day Technical, Polytechnics and Universities. Some of the more famous students include: Aristotle; Euclid; Diodorus; Herodotus; Hippocrates; Plato; Pythagoras; Socrates; Strabo e.t.c

Thales, Solon, Plato and Eudoxus all part of the earlier students, they studied in Egypt prior to the commisioning of The Libraries at Alexandria.

A famous Roman Emperor confirmed what is written above, stating that:

"If one would document the amount of Greek and Roman academics that visited ancient Egypt for the purpose of learning, their names would not be able to fit inside a book with 1,000 pages"

In those days, if you didnt study under the stewardship of Khemetic priest then you couldnt learn the basic fundamentals of the Arts, Commerce or Sciences and wouldnt really amount to much in olden day Greece.

Every single Greek that became famous during the so called "Greek Miracle", have studying under the Ancient Egyptians as a common factor.


That is to say, the so called "Greek Miracle" is not a miracle at all but a viscious exploitation of Khemet's intellectual property.

Has been proven beyond doubt that all the organised religions currently operating in Africa of today are often mainly based on hidden motif and false premise.

For instance,

Questions: Who are the first humans created by God?

Answer: African people.

Question: Who are the angels?

Answer: African ancestors

Question: Who are men/women of the Almighy God?

Answer: Everyone


If Africans are the first people to have been created by the Almighty God, therefore, the angels and the entire heavenly host, are to one hundred percent look completely African.

Anything contrary to an all inclusive African paradise/heaven can only be seen as a falsity.

Everyone knows that humanity starts in Africa.

Therefore, if humanity starts in Africa then that suggest pre-existence also occurs in Africa. Pre-existence depicts the period whereby there exists no humans on Earth.

Has been proven beyond doubt that all the organised religions currently operating in Africa of today are often mainly based on hidden motif and false premise.

For instance,

Questions: Who are the first humans created by God?

Answer: African people.

Question: Who are the angels?

Answer: African ancestors

Question: Who are men/women of the Almighy God?

Answer: Everyone


If Africans are the first people to have been created by the Almighty God, therefore, the angels and the entire heavenly host, are to one hundred percent look completely African.

Anything contrary to an all inclusive African paradise/heaven can only be seen as a falsity.

Everyone knows that humanity starts in Africa.

Therefore, if humanity starts in Africa then that suggest pre-existence also occurs in Africa. Pre-existence depicts the period whereby there exists no humans on Earth.

The fabled Libraries at Alexandria was commisioned by the Persian (Persia is modern day Iran) known as Alexander of Macedon.

Basically, most of clasified Khemetic intellectual property was kept and studied upon.

Greeks conquered Ancient Egypt and continued the ongoing foreign exploit of the people of Khemet and their lands; forming their own dynasty called the Ptolemaic Dynasty that ruled Ancient Egypt for nearly 300 years until 30 B.C.E.

At its peak, around 240 B.C.E Ptolemaic's Ancient Egypt expanded to control Libya, Palestine, Cyprus, and much of eastern Mediterranean Sea.

In 30 B.C.E the Romans took control of Ancient Egypt and ruled for over 600 years until 640 C.E

Eventually, the libraries became connected to a place of higher learning similar to modern day Technical, Polytechnics and Universities. Some of the more famous students include: Aristotle; Euclid; Diodorus; Herodotus; Hippocrates; Plato; Pythagoras; Socrates; Strabo e.t.c

Thales, Solon, Plato and Eudoxus all part of the earlier students, they studied in Egypt prior to the commisioning of The Libraries at Alexandria.

A famous Roman Emperor confirmed what is written above, stating that:

"If one would document the amount of Greek and Roman academics that visited ancient Egypt for the purpose of learning, their names would not be able to fit inside a book with 1,000 pages"

In those days, if you didnt study under the stewardship of Khemetic priest then you couldnt learn the basic fundamentals of the Arts, Commerce or Sciences and wouldnt really amount to much in olden day Greece.

Every single Greek that became famous during the so called "Greek Miracle", have studying under the Ancient Egyptians as a common factor.


That is to say, the so called "Greek Miracle" is not a miracle at all but a viscious exploitation of Khemet's intellectual property.

Has been proven beyond doubt that all the organised religions currently operating in Africa of today are often mainly based on hidden motif and false premise.

For instance,

Questions: Who are the first humans created by God?

Answer: African people.

Question: Who are the angels?

Answer: African ancestors

Question: Who are men/women of the Almighy God?

Answer: Everyone


If Africans are the first people to have been created by the Almighty God, therefore, the angels and the entire heavenly host, are to one hundred percent look completely African.

Anything contrary to an all inclusive African paradise/heaven can only be seen as a falsity.

Everyone knows that humanity starts in Africa.

Therefore, if humanity starts in Africa then that suggest pre-existence also occurs in Africa. Pre-existence depicts the period whereby there exists no humans on Earth.

African spirituality is the only true way. All organised religions presently operating in the continent are based on false and absurd narratives and are majorly counter-intuitive.

Philip Emeadwalie is one of the greatesr computer pioneers of our time, the Nigerian invents the world fastest computer able to compute 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Yes