Afrikan History Month: Why Egypt Matters

10 February, 2011 | By: Dr. Kwame Osei
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Many people would have watched on their TV screens the
uprisings in Egypt. Dr. Kwame Osei explains why many if not
ALL should not wrongly assume that the light skinned people
in today’s Egypt are the original people of Egypt.

Many people do not normally associate Egypt with Afrika but
instead with the so-called ‘Middle East’ or Arab world. All of the
above assumptions are WRONG, as the original people of Egypt
are and still are dark in complexion like the average African and
secondly, that Egypt has always been on the continent of Afrika and
nowhere else.

The main reason why many people cannot associate Egypt with
Afrika is that there has been a deliberate and systematic attempt by
European and Arab historians to falsify the true history of Egypt by
implying that Afrikan people did not have the intellectual ability or
the intellectual capacity to cultivate the classic high culture or
civilization that was Egypt.

Furthermore European and Arab historians claim that the people
who developed that great civilization were either European people
with sun-tanned skin or Arab people with brown skin. These two
assertions of course are absolute rubbish!

It is important at this juncture for the reader to recognize that the
Arab people are not a race of people. The Arab is in FACT a
mixed Afrikan whose mother is an Afrikan Ethiopian woman named
Hagar.
It is also important to note also that the light skinned people who
now occupy and rule Egypt ARE NOT the original Egyptians just as
the White people who occupy and rule the United States of
America ARE NOT the original Americans.

The light skinned arabs who occupy Egypt are the descendants of
imperialists who invaded Egypt and are the products generations of
inter-mixing and inter-marriage.

It is interesting to point out that when the Europeans and Arabs
invaded Egypt starting from about 525 BC with the Assyrians, they
began replacing the Afrikan names and inscriptions on the buildings,
monuments and temples that were ALL built by Afrikans with
European and Arab names adding to the confusion and then taking
the credit for the achievement.

As we can clearly see today, the names Egypt, Luxor, Aswan, Giza
etc are all Arab and European names used in order to conceal the
deception, but all these places had original Afrikan names. Egypt’s
Afrikan name is Kemet, Luxor’s original Afrikan name is Wa’set,
Aswan’s original Afrikan name is Esowan and the original name for
Giza is Chem.

It is important too, to inform the readership that civilization or culture
DID NOT begin in Egypt. It has been well established and
documented by historians, theologians and anthropologists that
civilization began way up the Nile Valley in present day Uganda.

Furthermore Ethiopia is often referred to as the mother of Egypt
meaning that Ethiopia predated Egypt and had a civilization and a
culture at least 2000 years before Egypt that also had a profound
influence on ancient Egyptian civilization.
In fact the concept of Judaism, Islam and Christianity began in
Ethiopia and that Jesus or his REAL name Yeshua Ben Yosef was
born in Ethiopia and not Bethlehem as many Ghanaians have been
led to believe.

The reason why Egypt is an important and integral part of Afrikan
history is that it is this classic civilization that was responsible for
producing the principles of Mathematics, Religion, Physics,
Chemistry, Astrology, Technology, Communication, Writing,
Commerce, Architecture and many other elements we take for
granted - all these were started in Egypt by Afrikan people.

Why Egypt matters

    Another main reason
    why Egypt is
    essential is that
    people have tried to
    take Egypt out of
    Afrika and claim that
    Egypt has no
    connection with
Afrika whatsoever by trying to ideologically place Egypt somewhere
else.

This special feature is to inform Ghanaians that the people who were
responsible for the great civilization of Egypt including the building of
great feats of architecture like the Great Pyramid of King Khufu,
The Sphinx, the monuments, temples, libraries etc were AFRIKAN
people and that THE original people of Egypt are ‘Black’ and that
Ancient Egypt WAS a AFRIKAN civilization.

The word EGYPT itself means ‘Black’. The ancient Egyptians
called themselves Kam or Kam-Au meaning ‘Black’ people or
‘Black’ God People, (‘Black’ symbolizing Godliness) and called
their country KEMET meaning the land of the ‘Blacks’.

In Afrikan culture names are very significant and have deep spiritual
meaning so if the Ancient Egyptians were not ‘Black’, why would
they name themselves as ‘Black’ people and their country the land
of the ‘Blacks’?

The word Egypt is English that was derived from the Greek word
Aegyptos which means ‘Black’ or burnt people and when the
British invaded Kemet they named it Egypt. Europe’s first historian,
the Greek Herodotus said the Egyptians, Colchians and Ethiopians
have thick lips and broad nose, wooly hair and they are of burnt
skin - signifying their obvious Afrikan features.

Even what is referred to as the bible equates Ham (Afrikans) with
Egypt. (Psalms 78.51, 105: 23-27, 106:21-22)

Therefore there is no doubt that the Egyptians who were responsible
for building that great civilization and culture were Afrikan people.

To further buttress the point, at a symposium organized by the
United Nations cultural section UNESCO in 1978 to establish the
racial origins of Ancient Egypt two great Afrikan historians Cheikh
Anta Diop and I. Obenga gave in-depth, measured and
comprehensive presentations to demonstrate that the people of
Ancient Egypt were Afrikans.

Diop in particular gave an awesome presentation using
anthropology, iconography, melanin dosage tests, osteological
measurements, blood groupings, the testimony of classical writers,
self-descriptive Egyptian hieroglyphs, divine epithets, Biblical
eyewitnesses, linguistics and other cultural data in support of his
opinion that the Ancient Egyptians were Afrikan.

This symposium proved beyond all doubt that the Ancient Egyptians
and their great civilization was an Afrikan one.

Now that it has been established that the Ancient Egyptian
civilization was Afrikan, what is it about this civilization and culture
that is so important and why Egypt matters.

This Afrikan civilization is important in our understanding and
overstanding of the world we live in today. For what is wrongly
referred to as Western civilization is in actual fact stolen Afrikan
civilization.

Two pointers to this - First is the classic book called Stolen Legacy
written by great Afrikan scholar George G. M. James. In it he
states, through thorough investigation, that Greek civilization which
Western civilization is actually based upon plagiarized Afrikan
civilization and that ALL the so-called Greek scholars like Plato,
Socrates, Galen, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Pythagoras and so forth all
came to Ancient Egypt and studied the principles of Mathematics,
Chemistry, Astronomy, Religion, Science, Physics, the rule of law,
Democracy, Commerce and the like and were taught by Afrikan
scribes and sages such as the great Imhotep.

Second when one looks at what is regarded as the most powerful
and important country in the Western world- the United States of
America, it is important to recognize that the United States of
America was built on an Afrikan Egyptian model.

These examples explain the Afrikan Egyptian connection with the
United States:

  1. The ˜founding” fathers of the United States including Thomas
    Jefferson and George Washington were all Freemasons who
    held Ancient Egypt in high regard. Freemasonry had its
    origins in Afrika.
  2. The American constitution was written in secret code
    language only understood by freemasons. This secret code
    language is a derivative of the Ancient Egyptian medu-neter
    or hieroglyphs.
  3. The United States $1 bill has Afrikan Egyptian symbols on it.
    For example the 13 stars of King Solomon, the Eagle, the
    Pyramid and the eye of Heru which symbolizes the all seeing
    eye, the omnipotent God.
  4. The Capital of the United States, Washington DC is modeled
    after an Ancient Egyptian city and that Washington DC itself
    was designed by a Black man named Benjamin Banneker.
    Banneker was commissioned by President George
    Washington in 1793 to design Washington DC, again
    symbolizing the fact that the Afrikan/’Black’ man was THE
    original master builder/planner/architect/designer.
  5. Amongst the most famous buildings in Washington DC is the
    Washington monument which is in actual fact a copy of the
    Ancient Egyptian Tekhen/Obelisk.
  6. All of the buildings in Washington DC, including Capitol Hill
    where Barack Obama made his inaugural speech and the
    White House where he lives were all built by Afrikan labor
    signifying that fact that the ‘Black’/Afrikan man was THE first
    builder/mason.

The above just highlights to the reader the immense influence
Afrikan ancient Egypt has had on the formation of the United States
politically, economically and in the design and construction of some
of its most famous buildings.

The Ancient Egyptian influence is also evident in many countries in
Europe. For example one of the most prominent images from
Ancient Egypt that appears throughout Europe is that which
represents the resurrection of the Afrikan, God Ausar who the
Greeks called Osiris.

This powerful symbol was called a Tekhen in Ancient Egypt.
However it was re-named by the Greeks who called it an Obelisk.
Currently there are obelisks in London, Rome, Paris, Istanbul and
many other cities throughout Europe.

The very first obelisk to be erected in Europe was in Rome in 10
BC to commemorate Augustus conquest of Egypt. A second
obelisk was removed from Egypt and erected in Rome in 357
AD/CE after the establishment of Christianity.

There are now a total of 13 tekhens in Rome alone. The most
famous obelisk in Italy stands in the centre of St. Peters Square at
the Vatican (the Piazza di San Pietro).

Very few people realize that on Easter Sunday as the Pope stands
on his balcony overlooking the congregation and delivers his sermon
praising the resurrection of the son of God, Yeshua Ben Yosef, he
faces a 6,000-year-old symbol that represents the original
resurrection of the Afrikan Egyptian God Ausar.

To buttress the contribution of the Afrikan race in general and the
Ancient Egyptian civilization in particular has had on humanity a
French aristocrat Count C F Volney made a profound statement in
one of his books.

This book was called “Ruins of Empire”, a highly controversial book
at the time and banned in the United States beucase it exposed the
Afrikan origins of civilization and culture – this at a time when
America was enslaving Afrikans and when in its constitution
considered the Afrikan 3/5 human.

This was written after Count Volney made numerous trips to Egypt
to study the history, culture and legacy of the Ancient Egyptians.

Count C F Volney stated “There a People Now Forgotten
Discovered While Others Were Yet Barbarians, The elements of
the Arts and Sciences. A Race Of men now rejected in society for
their Black Skin and Woolly Hair, founded on the Study of the laws
of Nature, those Civil and religious systems which still govern the
universe”.

Ancient Egypt was a colossal and classic civilization that resulted in
the Afrikan creating feats that have never been surpassed by any
group of people not even in today’s supposedly high tech world and
this is why many European and Arab historians call some of these
feats wonders of the world because they have not been able to
conceptualize how a people who are called inferior were able to
achieve such outstanding and breath taking accomplishments.

These great Afrikans were able to accomplish these great feats
because they had a high degree of spirituality (not the profane
Christian spirituality that we have today) that enabled them to be in
tune and perfect harmony with the cosmos, the laws of nature and
feed off its vibrations.

Other notable achievements of the Ancient Afrikan Egyptians that
have had a profound effect on the world we live in include:

Mathematics - this is one of the fundamental principles that
conceived the structures such as the pyramids that were invented by
these great Afrikans. They created more than 80 mathematic
principles such as Pythagoras theorem, algebra and logarithms that
are taught today in schools across the world. These principles are
found in a text called the Rhind mathematical papyrus written by
Ahmose in 1900 BC.

The Calendar - The invention of the first precise calendar in 10,000
BC of which the modern day Roman calendar is based on.

  1. Astronomy - The zodiac and the symbols that relate to it
    originated out of the Kemetic/Egyptian thought processes in
    their deep understanding of the solar system and this is the
    basis for European astronomy that we see today that is in
    itself totally inaccurate as it lacks the original overstanding and
    ancient knowledge and wisdom that the Afrikan had.
  2. Architecture and masonry - the structures and designs of the
    pyramids, sphinx and temples were conceived via a high
    understanding and wisdom of using mathematical,
    geographical, spiritual and other practices. It is the ancient
    Egyptian concept of architecture and masonry that is the
    foundation of Western construction and design.
  3. Education - The ancient Egyptian system of high learning
    (wrongly called Egyptian mystery by European scholars) was
    the highest seat of learning in the world and the lodge of
    Waset (Luxor) was the largest University in the Ancient
    world with over 80,000 people studying various principles
    and enlightenment. All the so-called Greek scholars like
    Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Herodotus, Hippocrates and so
    forth were taught by Afrikans such as Imhotep and other
    sages and scribes in these universities
  4. Medicine - Medicine originated in Afrika but its development
    was fast tracked in Ancient Egypt. The oldest medical treaty
    in the world is called the Edwin smith papyri. This treaty was
    written over 4,000 years ago and every facet of medicine is
    entreated in this document. From natural cures for ailments
    like cancer and heart disease through to the genetic code for
    the human body.
  5. Imhotep, the REAL father of medicine is accredited for
    writing this treaty and this document is noted for its accuracy
    and high scientific standards. Included in this medical treaty is
    the medical oath which newly qualified doctors swear an
    allegiance to, to adhere to the standards and ethics of the
    medical profession.
  6. The oath is wrongly called the Hippocratic oath and in actual
    fact this is Imhotep’s oath and all newly qualified doctors in
    Ghana who pronounce this oath are actually paying great
    homage to this Afrikan multi-genius who was also the
    architect of the highest order designing the first step pyramid
    at Sakkara and was also a Prime minister during the reign of
    king Zjoser in the 3rd Dynasty of ancient Egyptian rule.

The above shows you the reader that the great Afrikan civilization of
Ancient Egypt has had a profound influence on modern society and
shaped modern concepts in relation to medicine, science, education,
architecture and so forth.

This is why Egypt matters because it was this Afrikan civilization that
is the foundation of the world we live in today and although others
want to discredit the Afrikan origins of Egypt and the Afrikan origins
of civilization, this special feature clearly shows that the truth will
come out and that the origins of Ancient Egypt is Afrikan, that the
root of what is defined as Western civilization is Afrikan and that
civilization itself began in Afrika.

LONG LIVE AFRIKA!!

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Egypt is famous for its
ancient civilization and
some of the world's most
famous monuments,
including the Giza
pyramid complex and its
Great Sphinx. Its
ancient ruins, such as
those of Memphis,
Thebes, Karnak and the
Valley of the Kings, are a
significant focus of
archaeological study, and
artefacts from these
sites are now displayed
in major museums
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