Thursday 22 September 2011

African Contributions to the World


Hotep,
This is an exciting time for me. Since there is so much information out there now, which had been suppressed since at least the dark ages? I owe a big thanks to professors of African Studies, past and present who fought to bring out so much information, to educate a new generation of young people. It is something that is inspiring, something that would boost our self-esteem and say hey, I would, in some way follow in the footsteps of our ancestors. I have read a few articles about the contributions of the African people. They invented Mathematics, Science, Astronomy, Medicine, literature, music, Architect and Freemasonry, and Martial Arts (Montu Arts). Sadly, for centuries Africans never had the credit as a result we have been told nothing but lies.
Ancient African Civilization: Get Ready to be Enlightened by the Storm by Sister Nordine
 Black Civilizations of Ancient America by Paul Barton
Ancient Kemetic Roots of Library and Information Science by Itibari M. Zulu
Here is a lengthy essay written by the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke called Education for a New Reality in the African World
African people were the first human race on the planet earth. Originally, humans had skin pigmentation and resided in east Africa. Humans were created by dark complexion to survive UV Rays and prevent skin cancer. Overtime when the human race were branching out into Europe, Asia and Americas, the last Ice Age hit causing a mutation phase in the human race. I watched on YouTube a lecture by Dr. Booker T. Coleman on the History and Science of the Moors, and in an interview of Booker T. Coleman on the origin of Europeans. He further suggested research on Dr. Diop, and Dr. Ivan Van Sertima.
Here is a 15 minute interview with Dr. Booker T. Coleman on his theories.

Africans were the originators of fighting systems in what we know today as Martial Arts. Many people believed that the Martial Arts a synonymous with East Asia. Many go as far to say that the Martial Arts originated in India by a Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma. My recent blog called They Came Before Bodhidharma dispels that myth and I presented a more factual story. I oppose the notion that the Martial Arts only came from Asia, so does the late Bruce Lee, Jim Arvanities, Hanshi Pat McCarthy, Mike Coombs, Kilindi Iyi, Abraham Hardy, and Oso Tayari. I can go about this whole I don’t know what you’re talking about and I know what you’re talking about thing the way the late Dr. Clarke so eloquently put it. If anyone tells me that the Martial Arts only came from Asia, then I don’t know what you’re talking about. If anyone tells me that Bodhidharma was the originator of the Martial Arts, then I don’t know what you’re talking about. Now if anyone tells me that every civilization developed their own fighting system, then I know what you’re talking about. If anyone tells me that the Martial Arts originated in Africa, then I know what you’re talking about.
India and Pakistan before and during the dark ages, didn’t exist, that landmass at the time was split up into numerous warring states and Pakistan was formally called Hindu Kush until various European powers invaded certain territories in the 1600’s CE. Until the 1800’s the British kicked out their Imperialist rivals out of that landmass and amalgamated the various states into the Indian Union. When it comes to discussing Martial Arts, many Westerners thought that the various fighting styles were coming together around the 500’s CE, the early years of the dark ages. If you try to invalidate what they believe, they will say that they are no records of such and such a thing. It can be a state of denial or deny that any fighting system outside of East Asia is not a Martial Art. I’m a thinker; I seek out truth instead of beliefs; beliefs that don’t really make sense to me. In China, the most famous military treatise is the Art of War by Sun Tzu. This book was written in the 5th or 4th century BCE. The earliest record of Martial Arts was written by the multi-genius, Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor (aka Hu Nak Kunte) c.2696 BCE approx. 1,500 years before Bodhidharma ever arrived in Honan province in China to teach Zen Buddhism and Martial Arts. China’s oldest system was Shuai Chiao, which is still practiced till this day.  Huangdi (Hu Nak Kunte) was of direct African descent. Early Chinese civilization, especially during their first dynastic period where ruled by African people, the very first Emperor was Fu Hsi. Here is an article written by Dr. Khalifa A. Khaliq:
Here is a video of Early Africans in China:
Here is an article on the History of Shuai Jiao:

The oldest Martial Art system came from Africa and that is Nubian Wrestling. All grappling systems from across the world can have its roots from Africa.

Here is a video of Ashra Kwesi lecturing in Egypt about the Martial Arts

I have discussed the terminology of Martial Arts before in one of my blogs. Martial is a word derived from Mars who is the Roman God of War. So India, in the Hindu faith there’s no Mars, so how can Martial Arts originate from India? If you go back to where human life began Martial Arts was originally called the Montu Art form. Montu is the Kemetic (Egyptian) God of Warfare. Dr. Booker T. Coleman said, “It is important to understand language or else you are going to miss it.” It is important to know why certain words are being used in the English language by digging into the origins of the words.
To understand the dark ages (medieval times, middle ages), there are many events that turned the world at that period upside down. Primarily the uprising of many Barbarian tribes, that brought about a gradual fall of the Roman Empire. The beginning of the dark ages go back to 325CE, the first Council of Nicaea where 318 Bishops under edict of Emperor Constantine politically put together all the doctrines stolen from Egypt and other ancient cultures into the creation of Christianity. In 525CE, Justinian I burned all Egyptian spiritual text and passed law if anyone was caught with any Egyptian spiritual text or practicing ancient pagan rituals would be put to death.  It is also important to note that Greek Martial Art Pankration was banned since the rise of Christianity in the 300’s by Emperor Theodosius because they think that this sport in the Greek Olympiad was pagan. Pankration is a Martial Art that paved the way for MMA. There is no denying that Pankration is a Martial Art. When the Greeks were educated by Africans, they learned their Martial Arts from their great teachers.
Until now, there are many people in top fields of study, that are bringing back information out of the dark, and this is an opportunity for us to rediscover our roots and seek out right knowledge which had been suppressed for over 1,000 years. Let’s get rid of those incomprehensive fables, and get to know the facts. On the subject of the Origins of indigenous fighting systems, the best researchers in that field to find out about their thoughts and facts are Kilindi Iyi, Abraham Hardy, Oso Tayari, Professor Carroll, and Baba Faesegun. Also Ashra Kwesi, although he is not a Martial Artist, the video presented above is informative too, have claimed and proved that the Martial Arts existed before the dark ages, which a majority of people believed. I have been investigating the roots of the Martial Arts for six years, currently I have been studying the roots of mankind and African History to supplement my Martial Arts studies, the information I presented is current information of articles and videos written by Archaeologists, Professors, and Martial Art Historians in order to present a closer factual accounts instead of being programmed into a lie.     

                                                                                                                                         Hotep,
                                                                                                                                        Jonathan