RE:—ADVENT OF SOLSTICE—Re: OPENING A HUGE DOOR‹Re: World's First Family
Michael Vickers
Approach of Advent & The Sun of the Solstice—Early Descent and the Depths of Darkness.————————————————Shadows of Life
From the High Aether,
From that Elevated Region of
Actuated Light, of
Life More Abundant,
‘Tis time to descend;
Back down into those
Dark Corridors of Towering flame, of
Billowing black clouds, the
Vesuvius of Life. …*
——————————————————
* Vickers, Bright Beams in Dark Shadow, p. 9
——————————————————
Funmi,A bit heavy on the artillery barrage.But again powerful stuff.Opening a Huge Door, indeed;And thereby enabling yet more Great LightBoth to flow in, andTo flow out.I might add that you have made another important point. And that is that history is an essential hand-maid to understanding; and in this instance, history proving that the current status of us humans as "savage infants" for at least the past 10,000 years—or since evolution of our Socially Ordered Groups—is showing encouraging signs of moving on towards that maturity so long awaited.Even in the Darkest of times, there is always a Bright Beam of Light. It is for us to keep that Beam well-fuelled, as you are doing. Tis in this way that more Darkness is forced to the margins, as indeed is happening now. And though the contest with Dark Forces may often seem solitary; you are fully aware of/ sensitised to--as you demonstrated to me those many years ago--the myriad Beams of Bright Light throughout this our planetary world that shine forth. One day, perhaps suddenly and sooner than we think, they will come together and a Great Light will shine in our world. The Good Time of huge Energy Release and Actuation will have arrived. Released from the heavy grip of Darkness, we shall move fast-forward. Little navigation will be required. The plan of forward movement is hard-wired within us all; intensity of prolonged suffering has sharpened it, and strengthened the force of its momentum; it will roll forward. And our world will move into another era. Twill be an era of the Joyful Drum as you again have shown us all, and continue so to do; the Joyful Drum to herald and welcome home Great Light in our lives. I can hear its beat/ feel its growing heart-rhythms now.Indeed, your Drums, their steady beat/ the power of their heart-rhythms/ cause me to think of my Zimbabwean friend Ambrose. A Terrestrial Ecologist with heavy involvement in Astro-Physics, and working at one of the Southern California universities; I met him while visiting the renowned Lowell Astronomical Observatory on the High Plains of Arizona many years ago.It was one of the most important encounters of my life. It all happened in the silence of Darkness, as that massive telescope with its auto-adjustment, scanned the heavens on its nightly round. He showed me Light within and without; Great Light that was so obvious I had never noticed it. But I did now; and have done so with great ease ever since. And as we were coming to the end of our discussion on that memorable occasion, I put a final point.“Whether we’re talking in Light Years, or of the parochial present of a very new species, us humans; behind all this you’ve set forward; do you feel there is purpose, design; that there is a Creative Force, a Supreme Deity?Ambrose was silent for a moment. “Certainly there is some infinite ordering and creative presence. From the vast and complex, to the tiniest organism, indeed to the exquisite integrated functions of our blood, bone and tissue; we can but observe in awe and wonder. Round us right here; out in the dark infinity Light years beyond this our small bit of terrestrial property; there is surely a Creative Force—if not a Creator with any bodily presence we might recognise”?
“And this world,” I added, “you are confident it is moving forward?”
“Certainly it is changing, as it always has done. As I say, I can see clearly its outline; and also various important elements in place, as we’ve discussed.
“If I might sum up,” said Ambrose, “I would say this: we are living in a very exciting and challenging time. Things are moving at a fast and sharply accelerating pace. And in my view, the direction in which we’re moving is worth working for—though I do sometimes feel the Creator is little interested in us; and given what would seem our numerous ‘design faults,’ he perhaps merely is using us as 'guinea pigs' for creation of ‘proper beings’ in worlds light years distant? He may even be surprised we have not yet ‘pressed the button,’ thus triggering our projection into eternity as yet another not very significant shooting star of millions providing a brief bright streak in the night sky?
“We can however only work within the span of cognition, feeling and spiritual range we can conceive. And in our own ways, and bounded always—as I see it—by the parameters above, we can but do our best.
“And that’s what’s important.” (Vickers, On Wings of Light, p.29; see also attached Excerpt, ibid., II Overview, pp.13-31)
Quite enough from me, Funmi. Time to head back up to the High Aether. A brief visit down here into the heart of this darkness, the well of this distress is quite enough.
And speaking of Darkness and distress: in a UK that is no longer so "Great"; I note the PM last night survived a vote of No Confidence amongst Conservative MPs. Thus PM May lives to fight another BREXIT day. But of course the malaise, as we all know, goes much deeper. Brits, like all folk in this relentlessly unravelling Western world, are living and working with institutions that have long outlived their usefulness. They are obsolete. Mrs May and her friends, bless em, makes brave Brit noises. In the meantime they flounder, rudderless; spin like Dervishes to the cacophony of cha-cha-cha.
If one cares to consider it; the political vertigo in Brit and the deep angst and distress caused to the Brit 98er—and equally to his 98er counterparts in the other so-called developed countries of this planet—is not so different from that which constitutes the day-by-day brinkmanship dramas of Nigeria and its folk. It is an era of Darkness/ we can see its contours/ we know well its objects/ the procedures it deploys. We can see also the Light of the Horizon Future; and that this Light is advancing.
But the Advent of Change? Do we know when it will come? Did Gaddafi or Mubarak? Have others challenged by the fires ignited by the Arab Spring of 2011, shown greater awareness and ability/ willingness to adjust and adapt?
And in Nigeria?
All we know is that the looting by luminaries and many others, continues. Those of our powerful foreign friends who could step in, choose instead to stand back—petroleum of course is their prime concern. All these folk of "Freee and Democratic" principle suffer a curious amnesia where action to back principle is required. Such folk cannot hear when the withered black stick of an arm crrracks the side-window of their 4X4/ nor the anguished howl of that starving man that follows. Their response? That starving man in ragged clothing should behave with more self-respect/ more respect for others. And as he does not? Well then he deserves only scorn.
The clock is ticking.
Good heavens. Really must go.
I wish you well on this Advent of the Solstice.And may it at last bring to Nigerians,Indeed to us all,The Healing Force of Truly Great Light.
Your good friend, Baba m
Date: Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:46
To: Michael VICKERS <mvic...@mvickers.plus.com>
Cc: Prof John M McMURTRY <mcmu...@uoguelph.ca>, Prof Toyin FALOLA <toyin....@mail.utexas.edu>, Femi Osofisan <okinba...@yahoo.com>, Niyi Osundare <oosu...@uno.edu>, <niyit...@yahoo.com>, AKOGUN TOLA ADENIYI <akogunto...@gmail.com>, Joy Adeniyi <yeye...@yahoo.ca>, Prof Paul E LOVEJOY <plov...@yorku.ca>, dr_ademi <dr_a...@yahoo.co.uk>, Tunde JOSE <jose...@gmail.com>, dinah jurksaitis <d_jurk...@yahoo.co.uk>, Bishop Felix AJAKAYE <ffa...@gmail.com>, George OGUNJIMI <gbogu...@yahoo.co.uk>, Emmanuel Ajibade <era_a...@yahoo.co.uk>, chris theberge <christ...@gmail.com>, Patricia Montoute <ifada...@yahoo.com>, Bob PREST <pres...@gmail.com>, Seyi KEHINDE <oake...@yahoo.co.uk>, Moussa Kone <in...@moussakone.com>, Prof Ruth FINNEGAN <r.h.fi...@open.ac.uk>, Prof Rahim <prahe...@gmail.com>, Tunde Adegbola <taint...@gmail.com>, Taiwo Lycett <lycet...@gmail.com>, tunjisomor <tunji...@yahoo.co.uk>, <oliver...@telegraph.co.uk>, <t....@hotmail.com>, akinsola adejuwon <iror...@gmail.com>, Leye Lawal <adeley...@gmail.com>, Helen PREST-AJAYI <helen...@gmail.com>, kemi_osuntogun <kemi_os...@yahoo.co.uk>, Kunle Idowu <kunl...@gmail.com>, Prof Raphael NJOKU <njok...@isu.edu>, Prof Bayo ADEKANYE <profbayo...@yahoo.com>, David WALMARK <david...@eastlink.ca>, Damola IFATUROTI <dam...@comcast.net>, Prof Oladipupo ADAMOLEKUN <dip...@yahoo.com>, Prof Mohammed ABDULKADIR <msa...@gmail.com>, AWP <kche...@awprsp.com>, Douglas H YOUNG <dougla...@att.net>, "Prof Eghosa E. OSAGHAE" <osagha...@yahoo.co.uk>, Prof Ayo OLUKOTUN <ayo_ol...@yahoo.com>, Akinjide OSUNTOKUN <josun...@yahoo.com>, "ori...@yahoo.com" <ori...@yahoo.com>, "Dr.Remi SONAIYA" <remis...@yahoo.com>, Saidat Otulana <moy_o...@yahoo.com>, Serifat Davies <sisia...@gmail.com>, "aopeodu52@yahoo co. uk" <aope...@yahoo.co.uk>, rita <ri...@corporatemessengers.com>, <opeoluw...@yahoo.com>, Awoniyi Olukayode <ooapr...@gmail.com>, Kole Ade Odutola <ko...@yahoo.com>, Kikelomo Olowu <olowuk...@gmail.com>, delelayiwola <delela...@yahoo.com>, Prof Maurice AMUTABI <amu...@gmail.com>, Wale GAZHAL <waleg...@gmail.com>, Damola <damoa...@yahoo.com>, Peju Layiwola <pejulayi...@gmail.com>, Yemi Shodimu <yemis...@yahoo.com>, yemi wilde-halim <yemi...@hotmail.com>, n_missy <n_m...@hotmail.com>, Makinde Adeniran <makinde...@gmail.com>, mufuonifade <mufuo...@gmail.com>, musictextpicture <aville...@yahoo.com>, <s...@yodesonsgroup.com>, TUNDE OGUNSANWO <tundeog...@gmail.com>, <sarah...@yahoo.com>, Sam Amusan <elsa...@yahoo.com>, bayo awala <bayo_...@yahoo.com>, Bernard MULLER <mulle...@wanadoo.fr>, Adeniran ADEWALE <wale...@gmail.com>, <bisis...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: OPENING A HUGE DOOR‹Re: World's First Family
The Logical and Spiritual Keys to Black Ascendancy.
AUMedia publication of 27 Oct 2018 | Uncategorized
It is a truism that you don’t use the same mindset that got you into a problem to get a solution.
We were overran, enslaved and colonised with two approaches – War of Ogun (Aries) and dogma of Olokun (Pisces). We will regain our freedom and rise with the truths of Esu (Virgo) and hard love of Osun Libra).
These are diametrically opposite points on the cycle of life. If you look at the year cycle, these are opposite signs, six months apart.
According to Original African philosophy based on duality, the universe, humans and events have cycles, contrary to linear Abrahamic philosophies.
African morality is based on this duality through the natural laws of retributive justice as opposed to Abrahamic messiahanic justice.
Our information retrieval system aka Ifa/Afa/Iha is also based on the duality of ejiogbe – the binary code.
Our medicine, metallurgy, quantum physics and all other knowledge bases respect this duality. So for the Black struggle to be successful, it must understand the concept of duality in everything.
The Black Race was mentally enslaved by its conquerors that made it forget the duality of Almighty God, Edunmare who is both good and evil, therefore making us to wrongly allocate evil to Esu, the Orisha, patron saint of information.
We end up losing sight of God and information about ourselves, swept away by the tides of Olokun propaganda in chains of Ogun.
The cycle of the universe is about 24,000yrs, which is tied to the lifespan of human civilization. DNA evidence proves that Yorubas differentiated from Pygmies 87,000yrs ago, which is about three and a half civilizations.
However, we are only aware of the current cycle of human civilization known as the Orunmila civilization that started 12,000yrs ago.
It is possible based on the laws of duality that the first 24,000 yrs after the first ethnic divergence between Yorubas and San Pygmies, we had a de-civilization period of 24,000yrs of floods, ice ages and deluges before we started this progressive period.
These are huge time spaces, epochs, hard to imagine and mostly academic and systematic in nature. For practical purposes, we need to focus on the Great Year of 2000yr eras derived from the 24,000yr cycle of the universe which dictates our global consciousness. The cycle of the day is broken into two 12hr cycles that reflect our daily consciousness. Our year cycle of seasons imparts on our seasonal consciousness.
The Black Race started and blossomed from 6 Great Years away, starting Orunmila wisdom of the Sun, to Yemanja influences of the moon and high tides up to Osun era of international land trade routes all the way to Indus Valley civilizations and South China.
Our problems came in Ogun great year that started around 2000BC when White people came down from the Central Asian mountains, the Andronovo complex caves, with iron weapons and horse chariots to overwhelmed and destroy Black civilizations of ancient Egypt, Indus Valley and South China, as depicted in the Biblical Old Testament. Our mental slavery compounded our problems in the next era, the last 2000yrs of Olokun era as depicted in the New Testament.
To counteract these imperialistic influences we must deploy their opposites with Esu and Osun. To do so we must clear the misconceptions of Esu, being only evil. We must understand the full concept of God and Esu.
In the incoming era of Shango, the era of Enlightenment, we need Esu to spread our truths. We must wage a war of the minds, the war of truth versus religious and political dogma and propaganda.
CIA is Esu capable of spreading good and bad information. However being created in the Olokun era for imperialistic propaganda, it has been accused of spreading more negative than positive information against the Black Race.
Our computer, smartphones and internet are Esu tools, but even though it has been effectively used for enlightening (Shango) the masses, currently it is enveloped in Olokun dogma, fake news, drugs and other mind bending ploys.
Esu tools were pivotal in the anti-slavery and anti-colonization movements. The printing press was used to educate and agitate against slavery, notably the 1800s printing press used to publish Frederick Douglass books in the USA, Harriet Stowe novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Equaino Oladuah Autobiography.
In the first global Black Congress in 1900, the Black leadership emphasized that all Black activists should form newspapers, which resulted in the Crisis in USA, African Pilot in West Africa and Brazil’s Ten and Quilombo. However these were tools used by the previous movement.
A new tool, the Radio, was to be derived from the invention of radar during the War of Colonies, later renamed the first World War. The 1920s era of Black Cultural Renaissance was inspired by the mushrooming of radio stations.
In addition to the Black political activists employing the Esu radio talkshows to educate, educate then agitate the people, Black music, Osun, belted out tunes to soften the Ogun hardened hearts of the imperialists.
There has been no more successful tool to advance Black identity and culture across humanity. While you can build defenses against Ogun, there are no defenses against Osun penetration of the soul with love and music.
Tunes like Change Gonna Come inspired many in the Civil rights movement. The non-violent movement was a movement of Esu, Osun and Shangos against Olokun and Ogun.
Now, the last stage of Black freedom and eventual ascendancy will be fought with Osun and Esu. However, like Esu is not only evil but also good information, Osun is both soft and hard love. Love can destroy and kill.
As duality, good and bad, exists in everything, the White race also has opposite spectrums. While Western Powers have continued their Ogun and Olokun industrial complex, to defeat them China has chosen the hard Osun route coded as International communism in the 1920s, now in play as international economic infrastructural development.
China’s ultimate aim is to use love to help build economic liberating infrastructure for enslaved colonies, which would eventually bankrupt the Western Powers and rust their Ogun military industrial complex. Hard love.
China like Nigeria were both created on October 1st, the Osun month in the yearly cycle.
The Southbelt of Nigeria must employ Esu to educate themselves and the Black Race of their common origins and collective aspirations and come together in brotherly love (Osun).
The Southbelt must come together in brotherly love to defeat the Fulanis and British and take control of Nigeria.
Their focused Osun must emphasize on global Black business for Blacks and ultimately bankrupt Western exploitative models.
The Global White Supremacists are fully aware that the ultimate weapon of white mass destruction is Osun.
According to Dr Cress Wesling, the White Race have a pathological fear and hatred of the Black Race because an uncontrolled Osun (sexual love) will lead to a Black planet as black and white couples can only give birth to Black.
This is why the lynching of Blacks always ended up with the castration of the Black male, his weapon of mass destruction.
The global White Race ascendancy was based on the Gun designed like a penis and balls that shoots out hot death is diametrically opposite to the Black penis that shoots out hot life.
So, we must focus on the duality of Esu and Osun to achieve Black freedom and ascendancy. If we decide to use Ogun, they are ready to end the world in a ball of fire. And we have no use for Olokun dogma since the truth is on our side and most importantly, the incoming era of Shango is about Enlightenment, Justice and Black prosperity.
promoting the renaissance of Africa
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:17 PM Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emea...@ccsu.edu> wrote:"The Iron Age inspired another wave of migration patterns due to the fact that improved farming with iron tools would require more arable land, as well as the imperialistic pressures from the arid lands to the North. This period brought about the fall of the ancient Black African frontier empire, Egypt to Eurasians (Jews) and Afroasians (Arabs) whose ripple effects were felt across Africa."I have my doubts as to the classification of Jews as Eurasians. We need more input on that matter from scholars in the field.The reference to Egypt reminded me of Herodotus' interesting commentary on ancient Egyptian identity in Book Two of his works. See attached.
Professor Gloria EmeagwaliFrom: usaafric...@googlegroups.com <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Michael Vickers <mvic...@mvickers.plus.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2018 2:27 PM
To: Funmi Odusolu
Cc: Prof John M McMURTRY; Prof Toyin FALOLA; Femi Osofisan; Niyi Osundare; niyit...@yahoo.com; AKOGUN TOLA ADENIYI; Joy Adeniyi; Prof Paul E LOVEJOY; dr_ademi; tunde jose; dinah jurksaitis; Bishop Felix AJAKAYE; George OGUNJIMI; Emmanuel Ajibade; chris theberge; Patricia Montoute; Bob PREST; Seyi KEHINDE; Moussa Kone; R.H.Finnegan; Prof Rahim; Tunde Adegbola; Taiwo Lycett; tunjisomor; oliver...@telegraph.co.uk; t....@hotmail.com; akinsola adejuwon; Leye Lawal; USA-AFRICA dialogue; Helen PREST-AJAYI; kemi_osuntogun; Kunle Idowu; Prof Raphael NJOKU; Prof Bayo ADEKANYE; David WALMARK; Damola IFATUROTI; Prof Oladipupo ADAMOLEKUN; Prof Mohammed ABDULKADIR; AWP; Douglas H YOUNG; Prof Eghosa E. OSAGHAE; Prof Ayo OLUKOTUN; Akinjide OSUNTOKUN; Funmi Odusolu; Dr.Remi SONAIYA; Saidat Otulana; Serifat Davies; aopeodu52@yahoo co. uk; rita; opeoluw...@yahoo.com; Awoniyi Olukayode; Kole Ade Odutola; Kikelomo Olowu; delelayiwola; Prof Maurice AMUTABI; Wale GAZHAL; Damola; Peju Layiwola; Yemi Shodimu; yemi wilde-halim; n_missy; Makinde Adeniran; mufuonifade; musictextpicture
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - OPENING A HUGE DOOR‹Re: World's First FamilyMost interesting, Funmi.I tend to work with the heuristic figure of 100,000 years past, supplied by our Palaeo-Archaeologists for start of modern man's Great Hegira from his Southern Africa Homeland. These figures you have extracted from these recent archeo investigations you mention —and all within the general 100k parameter—suggest a rich new source for taking forward long-needed basic and advanced Ethno-Cultural Studies. And yes, in Africa, but also extending into/ and inter-linked with ALL regions and locales of this planet.Basic point—of which you have reminded me more than once—we are after all, ALL ONE. And as you point out, in mention of the ancient lands and folk of the Fertile Crescent: before the Curtain of the Dark descended, we once worked to an ethic of Great Light—of realisation/ actuation/ and Inclusion; and all the pioneering attainments of science/ scholarship/ literacy/ law/ civil society that followed from it. And indeed that Yoruba culture as represented through the central force of Ifa, was full party to this Light.As for Yoruba folk as Ethnic Elders of the lot, with a DNA reading of 87,000 years? Well, it may be reasonable for Yoruba folk to claim Senior Elder Status/ primus inter pares, not only to all those of what still remains Nigeria, but indeed to ALL the locales/ lands and folk of Africa—and I would duly expect over such recent Multi-Ethnic/ mongrel entities as what might be termed "Amerikus-Trumpianissimus"; and indeed all other folk East/ West and North of our common Africa Homeland, that have attained individual Ethnic placement in the interim; all no doubt to be deduced and demonstrated from the data to which you refer.Quite wonderful Funmi. You do know how to light a torch. And you've done it yet again. Thank you for this gift in keeping with the Solstice that is hard upon us; that time when Darkness gives way once again to the Ascent of Light. You have opened a huge door to vast new knowledge/ Great New Light, and a very large opportunity for timely and useful, nay vital information, as inevitably we move ever further into those realities; realities that call to us from Beyond the Boundaries. You will have lit the torch for many. With much gratitude.Best, Baba mFrom: Funmi Odusolu <eleda....@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 30 November 2018 22:24
To: Michael VICKERS <mvic...@mvickers.plus.com>, Prof John M McMURTRY <mcmu...@uoguelph.ca>, Prof Toyin FALOLA <toyin....@mail.utexas.edu>, Femi Osofisan <okinba...@yahoo.com>, Niyi Osundare <oosu...@uno.edu>, <niyit...@yahoo.com>, AKOGUN TOLA ADENIYI <akogunto...@gmail.com>, Joy Adeniyi <yeye...@yahoo.ca>, dr_ademi <dr_a...@yahoo.co.uk>, Tunde JOSE <jose...@gmail.com>, dinah jurksaitis <d_jurk...@yahoo.co.uk>, Emmanuel Ajibade <era_a...@yahoo.co.uk>, chris theberge <christ...@gmail.com>, Patricia Montoute <ifada...@yahoo.com>, Moussa Kone <in...@moussakone.com>, Prof Ruth FINNEGAN <r.h.fi...@open.ac.uk>, Prof Rahim <prahe...@gmail.com>, Tunde Adegbola <taint...@gmail.com>, Taiwo Lycett <lycet...@gmail.com>, tunjisomor <tunji...@yahoo.co.uk>, <oliver...@telegraph.co.uk>, <t....@hotmail.com>, akinsola adejuwon <iror...@gmail.com>, Leye Lawal <adeley...@gmail.com>, kemi_osuntogun <kemi_os...@yahoo.co.uk>, Kunle Idowu <kunl...@gmail.com>, Funmi Odusolu <eleda....@gmail.com>, "ori...@yahoo.com" <ori...@yahoo.com>, "Dr.Remi SONAIYA" <remis...@yahoo.com>, Saidat Otulana <moy_o...@yahoo.com>, Serifat Davies <sisia...@gmail.com>, "aopeodu52@yahoo co. uk" <aope...@yahoo.co.uk>, rita <ri...@corporatemessengers.com>, <opeoluw...@yahoo.com>, Awoniyi Olukayode <ooapr...@gmail.com>, Kole Ade Odutola <ko...@yahoo.com>, Kikelomo Olowu <olowuk...@gmail.com>, delelayiwola <delela...@yahoo.com>, Damola <damoa...@yahoo.com>, Peju Layiwola <pejulayi...@gmail.com>, Yemi Shodimu <yemis...@yahoo.com>, yemi wilde-halim <yemi...@hotmail.com>, n_missy <n_m...@hotmail.com>, Makinde Adeniran <makinde...@gmail.com>, mufuonifade <mufuo...@gmail.com>, musictextpicture <aville...@yahoo.com>
Subject: World's First Family--Genetics has made us realize the first ethnic differentiation occurred between Yorubas and San pygmies around 87,000 yrs ago, according to DNA evidence analysed by Harvard Medical School Simmons Genome Diversity Project released in 2017.Other comparative studies of the global genetics databases held by the Human Genome Project USA and Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in Parisi have revealed that Yoruba DNA to be the oldest in studies by Sarah Tishkoff and Etienne Patin.We also have genetic studies to show that the next line of pygmies, Mbuti, and other full stature Black Africans from about 50,000yrs ago. In a global DNA comparative analysis, it is obvious that the DNA figures of the Niger Kongo ethnolinguistic groups fall as you move away from Yorubaland.It has been long argued that due to the physiological makeup of Man, he must have evolved close to the coast, preferably in mangrove and freshwater swamps.In a study conducted by Kyoto University’s Yusouka in 2013, the Wild Yam Question was answered and the long standing dispute was put to rest that the first source of food was wild yams.From these and other evidences one can conclude that the most likely forest of evolution is the bell shaped rainforest between Ijebuland to the West, Benin to the East and Ife to the north, which is now officially called Ife Forest Reserves but traditionally known as the Igbo Irunmole – Forests of Ancestral Spirits.The local knowledge bank dismissed until recently as mythology tells us that in the beginning Man as an Irunmole, Spiritual being, started from the Ife forests reserves. Oduduwa, the progenitor of Yorubas, Obatala, Olu Iwa and many others are linked to this forest. Oduduwa was the first to humanize his spiritual existence followed by others. We are told how in the evolutionary process how all except Ijimere successfully evolved.Local knowledge tells us that the exact site of Ile Ife moved, probably due to climatic epochs leading to flooding or aridity until it’s final and present location. It was from here that we blossom into communities and laid the foundations of human civilization. The first markets were established by Obatala descendants linked to Igbos. The lunar calendar was started. Our knowledge bank was organized into the 16 sector of Ifa, the Original African information retrieval system, which inspired mathematics, physics, medicine, quantum physics, metallurgy and various studies.Full stature Black Africans began to migrate out and from genetic and cultural anthropological studies, Yorubas became Igala, who diverged into Idoma and Igbos.To the Southwest, descendants of Oduduwa migrated to Ketu and onto Tado in Benin Republic. It was from Tado, the brothers were to create the Aja, Fon and Ewe that spread through Southern forests of Benin Republic into Togo and Ghana. Ewes refer to Ketu as Amedzofe (“origin of humanity”) or Mawufe (“home of the Supreme Being”).?While the migration through the rainforest was more of trickles, a larger number of migrants went up the River Niger and settled in its savannas until they reached the Senegambian Atlantic Coast.It is believed that Oduduwa and many other Orishas/Irunmole are more of essences that keep repeating overtime in different eras of global collective consciousness. This translates to the fact that Oduduwa at the point of human evolution wasn’t the same as Oduduwa that brought the monarchical system in 1000AD!From linguistic and genetic evidence, the Volta-Benue language family, appear to be the oldest and core of the Niger-Kongo ethnolinguistic groups. Rather than been separate families categorized only because of linguistic similarities, it is argued that the Niger-Kongo ethnolinguistic family is a continuum of dialects from the single mother tongue, which could be best described as archaic Yoruba.This argument is supported by the change in DNA values along migratory routes. It is also supported with grottochronology studies that calculate the rate of linguistic divergences over time and distance. It is accepted that there have been different waves of migrations due to ecological and sociopolitical events.Initially, the Volta-Benue ethnolinguistic groups were extended to cover the whole of the Yam belt that extends from Cross River in Nigeria to Bandama River in Ivory Coast, closer scrutiny showed a difference in language and social organization tied to later migrations trends.The Kwa in East Ghana/Ivory Coast and the Benue – Congo that includes Plateau and Bantu ethnolinguistic families from Nigeria to South Africa were separated from Volta Venue family due to belonging to later migratory trends, not directly from Ife but Ife emigrants that make up the Volta-Benue ethnolinguistic source group.One key characteristic of the Volta Benue ethnolinguistic group is that the presence of the 16 divisions of Original African Information retrieval system aka Ifa/Afa/Iha, that held their ancient history, culture and science.?This settlements were mainly led by spiritual leaders, philosopher kings long before the creation of monarchical dynasties of the last few thousand years.From global migratory evidence, we can deduct that indigenous peoples carried along Ifa, the first structured knowledge bank and social organization led by its spiritual/philosopher kings.Evidence of this can be deducted from the Ogisos in Benin and Eze across Ndigboland to faraway lands like Ethiopia where the first king was called Ori and the system was based on Erecha.In the 96 dug up cities of the Indus Valley civilization, which DNA proves were Black Indigenous civilizations, the sociopolitical organization points to spiritual/philosophy kings without glamour. The Eurasian invaders that destroyed it copied the Original African knowledge bank into what is known as the Rig Veda that became the template of Buddhism.These all goes to prove that the first social organization was based on Ifa until another wave of migratory trends changed the global consciousness.The celebration of the monarchical Crown known as Olojo festival in Ife ties it to Ogun, the Iron Age believed to have started around 2000BC.Although it is believed that the Yorubas and it’s larger Volta-Benue cultural sphere first started the Iron Age (Lejja 1900BC), we didn’t weaponize Iron and only used it for productive functions. Unlike, those in arid environments that set out to conquer with brute force devised from bows and arrows and horse chariots.The Iron Age inspired another wave of migration patterns due to the fact that improved farming with iron tools would require more arable land, as well as the imperialistic pressures from the arid lands to the North. This period brought about the fall of the ancient Black African frontier empire, Egypt to Eurasians (Jews) and Afroasians (Arabs) whose ripple effects were felt across Africa.?The Age of Ogun, Iron Age was followed by the current Age of Olokun, political and religious dogma which conceptualized the Ogun reign of brute force into monarchical imperialistic systems of today.The Volta Benue ethnolinguistic groups diverged into new groups with the new migratory trends and routes.To the East, the group birthed the Benue-Congo ethnolinguistic group that included Central Nigerian Plateau groups of the Jukun and Ham thay later formed the Kwararafa and Nok empires, as well as the Bantu groups that spread into Cameroon and went down the Sangha and Chari River until they reached the Ugbangi River, where they once again differentiated into Western (Kongo) and Eastern (Marshariki) Bantus. The Eastern Bantus, the Marshariki Bantus diverged into East and South Africans.To the east of the Volta-Benue originating group, there were those that had spread through the rainforests Yam belt at a slow rate and those who migrated along the Niger and Savannas.?The former group, the forest dwellers collectively known as Gbe had their population increased by another wave of migrants from Oyo Empire, attracted by gold trade who were called Eyo, miners.?The Gbe were to build an important empire called Tado. The fall of Tado tied to the advent of Europeans lead to other the springing up of other kingdoms like Allada and Ahomey. The culture remained relatively unchanged and kept the characteristics of the Volta-Benue group.Those in the grasslands between River Niger and Upper Volta formed spiritual empires like Ghana until the advent of Afroasians.The upheaval in the grasslands led to the migration of the Kwa group down River Pra where they diverged into Akan, Fante, Baoule and other Twi speakers.Initially staying in Kumasi, the Akan group mingled with the Volta Benue groups but the militarization of the area by Europeans led to the creation of empires like Denkyira and Akwamu by military commanders, who depart from the Volta Benue traditions of separating the role of the King (Oba) from that of the commander in Chief of Armed Forces (Balogun).The Kwa group spread to takeover the virgin coastal rainforests up to the eastern banks of Volta River. Their sociopolitical organization drew from the Volta-Benue groups especially over the last 500yrs. This closeness is why the Kwa ethnolinguistic group was formerly counted as part of Volta-Benue ethnolinguistic group.The previous Benue-Congo migrants that remained in Savanna grasslands, the Atlantic Senegambian and Kordofian Sudanese had their linguistics and other cultural and sociopolitical templates affected by the Afro-Asians marauders, taking questions over their indigenousOriginal African credentials.At the core of the Volta-Benue ethnolinguistic group, Yoruba and Ndigboland, monarchical dynasties were introduced that affected the social makeup. The descendants of Oduduwa in the current Olokun era was attributed the feat of establishing dynasties in Oyo, Benin and Onitsha. Across Yorubaland, especially in Yoruba cities states, it is not uncommon to have different kings and towns like Modakeke and Ondo attributed to Oyo as opposed to Ife.In Ndigboland, the monarchical system was largely resisted and restricted to places like Onitsha. The Eze system still existed how due to its language divergence from Yoruba, the language of its Afa information retrieval system, it could no longer serve as a unifying tool.The advent of European colonization and categorization of the Volta-Benue ethnolinguistic group into ill defined tribes has further confused the family.The translation of Volta Benue languages by different scholars from different Indo European backgrounds – British Nigeria, French Benin and Germany Togo – has done a disservice to our languages. For example guttural tonal sounds have left out of many languages making them lose their Bantu connections like Kpele now written as Pele.The Abrahamic cultural spheres that most Volta Benue people’s have adopted them have robbed them of the awareness that they share the same Original African information retrieval system, the same moral values based on natural laws of Retributive Justice, and that they have common cultural and genetic origins and collective aspirations from Benue to Volta.
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDial...@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialo...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.