Despite the enormous record and information surrounding African Americans story which began with transatlantic slave trade from West Africa, many are of the delusion that they are from Egypt, Nubian ancestry to escape their inferiority complex, low self esteem and paranoia. Why are they not associating and tracing to the West rather than to the Egyptian, Nubian? Because Ancient Egypt known for world civilization right. How many have taken time to visit Benin and study how Benin came with the pyramid structure and kingship tradition which have a lot in common with ancient Egyptian history an arts? How many African Americans you mentioned Yosef Ben Jochannon, Cress Welsing, Edward Blyton, WEB Du Bois, J A Rodgers, Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke, Herodotus, Leo Frobenius writing African history have visited Benin for their research and archaeology? Edo, Benin are the people not writing to overlord other ethnic group but still remain point of reference by scholars and researchers to both Africans and non Africans. Benin has a documented history up to about 900 AD. Many of these ancient writings and art works and paints were either destroyed by Britain 1897. The sophistication of their traditional administration with their leadership hierarchy when compared has the best route to restore Africa back to true africanization and afrocentrism. So many yet to be studied and publish by scholars. How can you teach what you don’t know and give what you don’t have. The present days WAZOBIA Nigeria have failed the Edo people and Nation. ......................................................................................... “One day I asked my grandmother the meaning of the word ‘Onitsha’. She explained that it had historical significance. The terminology meant one who despised another. It is a contraction of two words, Onini to despise, and Ncha meaning others. So that the two words when joined together mean one who despises others. Then I asked her why we despised others. She patted me on the back and told me that it was due to our aristocratic background and tradition. I insisted that she should explain to me the basis of this supercilious social attitude. She told me that we despised others because we descended from the Royal House of Benin and so regarded ourselves as the superiors of other tribes who had no royal blood in their veins, “ “I continued to belabor my grandmother to tell me more of the history and origins of the Onitsha people. She narrated that many years ago, there lived at Idu (Benin) a great Oba who had many children. Due to a power struggle regarding the right of precedence among princes of the blood and other altercations, there was a civil war in Benin. One day, the supporters of one of the princes insulted and assaulted Queen Asije, the mother of the Oba of Benin, who was accused of having trespassed. Enraged at this evidence of indiscipline and lawlessness, the Oba ordered his war chief and brother, Gbunwala Asije to apprehend and punish the insurgents. In the attempt to penalize them, Chima, the ultimate founder of the Onitsha city-state, a prince of the blood in his own right, led the recalcitrant against his Uncle, Gbunwala. This intensified the civil war which cut the kingdom of Benin in two and led to the founding of Onitsha Ado N’Idu, , ” “As the great trek from Benin progressed, some did not have the stout heart of the pioneer-warrior, and decided to settle at different places, known today as Onitsha -Igbo, Onitsha-Olona, Onitsha-Mili, Obior, Issele Ukwu, Ossomari, Aboh, etc. In a few years, we will have DNA tests that proves (or disproves) the Onitsha-Benin-Yoruba connection. In fact, a lost dialect of the Yoruba language, called Olukwumu, is spoken in Brazil and in a few Igbo communities named Anioma, Idumu-Ogu, Ubulubu, Ugboba, Ugbodu, and Ukwunzu (M. A. Onwuejeogwu, 1987 Ahiajoku Lecture). The absence Olukwumu in core Yoruba land proves that these communities are the Lost Yoruba Tribe that were fleeing from slave raiders. ” SOURCE – Nnamdi Azikiwe: My Odyssey, Chapter I (Spectrum Books, 1970) “My Genealogy and Nativity” p 11 – 12 (Uwagboe Ogieva)
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