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  • DID YOU KNOW CALIFORNIA WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF A BLACK WOMAN? That’s right! The mythical Black Queen Califia.(Khalifa)!!!

    According to her story, California was an island where only Black women lived. Gold was the only metal and pearls were as common as rocks.

    These women were the most powerful beings on earth. When Cortez reached California, searching for this mythical queen, her influence over him was so overwhelming that he paid tribute to Queen Califia by naming the state after her.

    “”California literally means, “the land where Black women live.””

    It’s documented that of the 44 people who founded Los Angeles, 26 were of African descent. What is amazing (and not taught in California schools) is the majority of the founders of San Francisco, San Jose and San Diego were of African descent, or that Orange County, Beverly Hills, LaJolla and Malibu were settled and once owned by people of African descent.

    History has been hidden way too long!

    AFRICAN QUEEN, AFRICAN HISTORY ♥
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  • Hi 👋👋world ✋🌎welcome back to my african history page and culture. So today’s history for the next 100days ,,I will be posting 📫interesting fact 👍about our lovely continentAfrica. Don’t forget to follow me on my blogpost I have the link on my bio you can check that up there☝☝☝plus on my Instagram account @inamillionyears80I remember i reached number 21, from 22th you can read it here up to 100.

    1. In around 300 BC, the Sudanese invented a writing script that had twenty-three letters of which four were vowels and there was also a word divider. Hundreds of ancient texts have survived that were in this script. Some are on display in the British Museum.
    2. In central Nigeria, West Africa’s oldest civilisation flourished between 1000 BC and 300 BC. Discovered in 1928, the ancient culture was called the Nok Civilisation, named after the village in which the early artefacts were discovered. Two modern scholars, declare that “[a]fter calibration, the period of Nok art spans from 1000 BC until 300 BC”. The site itself is much older going back as early as 4580 or 4290 BC.
    3. West Africans built in stone by 1100 BC. In the Tichitt-Walata region of Mauritania, archaeologists have found “large stone masonry villages” that date back to 1100 BC. The villages consisted of roughly circular compounds connected by “well-defined streets”.
    4. By 250 BC, the foundations of West Africa’s oldest cities were established such as Old Djenné in Mali.
    5. Kumbi Saleh, the capital of Ancient Ghana, flourished from 300 to 1240 AD. Located in modern day Mauritania, archaeological excavations have revealed houses, almost habitable today, for want of renovation and several storeys high. They had underground rooms, staircases and connecting halls. Some had nine rooms. One part of the city alone is estimated to have housed 30,000 people.
    6. West Africa had walled towns and cities in the pre-colonial period. Winwood Reade, an English historian visited West Africa in the nineteenth century and commented that: “There are . . . thousands of large walled cities resembling those of Europe in the Middle Ages, or of ancient Greece.”
    7. Lord Lugard, an English official, estimated in 1904 that there were 170 walled towns still in existence in the whole of just the Kano province of northern Nigeria.
      [11/03, 5:46 pm] Tequila: 28. Cheques are not quite as new an invention as we were led to believe. In the tenth century, an Arab geographer, Ibn Haukal, visited a fringe region of Ancient Ghana. Writing in 951 AD, he told of a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.
    8. Ibn Haukal, writing in 951 AD, informs us that the King of Ghana was “the richest king on the face of the earth” whose pre-eminence was due to the quantity of gold nuggets that had been amassed by the himself and by his predecessors.
    9. The Nigerian city of Ile-Ife was paved in 1000 AD on the orders of a female ruler with decorations that originated in Ancient America. Naturally, no-one wants to explain how this took place approximately 500 years before the time of Christopher Columbus!
    10. West Africa had bling culture in 1067 AD. One source mentions that when the Emperor of Ghana gives audience to his people: “he sits in a pavilion around which stand his horses caparisoned in cloth of gold: behind him stand ten pages holding shields and gold-mounted swords: and on his right hand are the sons of the princes of his empire, splendidly clad and with gold plaited into their hair . . . The gate of the chamber is guarded by dogs of an excellent breed . . . they wear collars of gold and silver.”
    11. Glass windows existed at that time. The residence of the Ghanaian Emperor in 1116 AD was: “A well-built castle, thoroughly fortified, decorated inside with sculptures and pictures, and having glass windows.”
    12. The Grand Mosque in the Malian city of Djenné, described as “the largest adobe [clay] building in the world”, was first raised in 1204 AD. It was built on a square plan where each side is 56 metres in length. It has three large towers on one side, each with projecting wooden buttresses.
      [11/03, 5:47 pm] Tequila: 34. One of the great achievements of the Yoruba was their urban culture. “By the year A.D. 1300,” says a modern scholar, “the Yoruba people built numerous walled cities surrounded by farms”. The cities were Owu, Oyo, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ketu, Popo, Egba, Sabe, Dassa, Egbado, Igbomina, the sixteen Ekiti principalities, Owo and Ondo.
    13. Yoruba metal art of the mediaeval period was of world class. One scholar wrote that Yoruba art “would stand comparison with anything which Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome, or Renaissance Europe had to offer.”
    14. In the Malian city of Gao stands the Mausoleum of Askia the Great, a weird sixteenth century edifice that resembles a step pyramid.
    15. Thousands of mediaeval tumuli have been found across West Africa. Nearly 7,000 were discovered in north-west Senegal alone spread over nearly 1,500 sites. They were probably built between 1000 and 1300 AD.
    16. Excavations at the Malian city of Gao carried out by Cambridge University revealed glass windows. One of the finds was entitled: “Fragments of alabaster window surrounds and a piece of pink window glass, Gao 10th – 14th century.”
    17. In 1999 the BBC produced a television series entitled Millennium. The programme devoted to the fourteenth century opens with the following disclosure: “In the fourteenth century, the century of the scythe, natural disasters threatened civilisations with extinction. The Black Death kills more people in Europe, Asia and North Africa than any catastrophe has before. Civilisations which avoid the plague thrive. In West Africa the Empire of Mali becomes the richest in the world.”
    18. Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus. An Egyptian scholar, Ibn Fadl Al-Umari, published on this sometime around 1342. In the tenth chapter of his book, there is an account of two large maritime voyages ordered by the predecessor of Mansa Musa, a king who inherited the Malian throne in 1312. This mariner king is not named by Al-Umari, but modern writers identify him as Mansa Abubakari II.
      [11/03, 5:48 pm] Tequila: 41. On a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 AD, a Malian ruler, Mansa Musa, brought so much money with him that his visit resulted in the collapse of gold prices in Egypt and Arabia. It took twelve years for the economies of the region to normalise.
    19. West African gold mining took place on a vast scale. One modern writer said that: “It is estimated that the total amount of gold mined in West Africa up to 1500 was 3,500 tons, worth more than $30 billion in today’s market.”
    20. The old Malian capital of Niani had a 14th century building called the Hall of Audience. It was an surmounted by a dome, adorned with arabesques of striking colours. The windows of an upper floor were plated with wood and framed in silver; those of a lower floor were plated with wood, framed in gold.
    21. Mali in the 14th century was highly urbanised. Sergio Domian, an Italian art and architecture scholar, wrote the following about this period: “Thus was laid the foundation of an urban civilisation. At the height of its power, Mali had at least 400 cities, and the interior of the Niger Delta was very densely populated”.
    22. The Malian city of Timbuktu had a 14th century population of 115,000 – 5 times larger than mediaeval London. Mansa Musa, built the Djinguerebere Mosque in the fourteenth century. There was the University Mosque in which 25,000 students studied and the Oratory of Sidi Yayia. There were over 150 Koran schools in which 20,000 children were instructed. London, by contrast, had a total 14th century population of 20,000 people.
    23. National Geographic recently described Timbuktu as the Paris of the mediaeval world, on account of its intellectual culture. According to Professor Henry Louis Gates, 25,000 university students studied there.
    24. Many old West African families have private library collections that go back hundreds of years. The Mauritanian cities of Chinguetti and Oudane have a total of 3,450 hand written mediaeval books. There may be another 6,000 books still surviving in the other city of Walata. Some date back to the 8th century AD. There are 11,000 books in private collections in Niger. Finally, in Timbuktu, Mali, there are about 700,000 surviving books.
    25. A collection of one thousand six hundred books was considered a small library for a West African scholar of the 16th century. Professor Ahmed Baba of Timbuktu is recorded as saying that he had the smallest library of any of his friends – he had only 1600 volumes.
      [11/03, 5:48 pm] Tequila: 49. Concerning these old manuscripts, Michael Palin, in his TV series Sahara, said the imam of Timbuktu “has a collection of scientific texts that clearly show the planets circling the sun. They date back hundreds of years . . . Its convincing evidence that the scholars of Timbuktu knew a lot more than their counterparts in Europe. In the fifteenth century in Timbuktu the mathematicians knew about the rotation of the planets, knew about the details of the eclipse, they knew things which we had to wait for 150 almost 200 years to know in Europe when Galileo and Copernicus came up with these same calculations and were given a very hard time for it.”
    26. The Songhai Empire of 16th century West Africa had a government position called Minister for Etiquette and Protocol.
    27. The mediaeval Nigerian city of Benin was built to “a scale comparable with the Great Wall of China”. There was a vast system of defensive walling totalling 10,000 miles in all. Even before the full extent of the city walling had become apparent the Guinness Book of Records carried an entry in the 1974 edition that described the city as: “The largest earthworks in the world carried out prior to the mechanical era.”
    28. Benin art of the Middle Ages was of the highest quality. An official of the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde once stated that: “These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique. Benvenuto Cellini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him . . . Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”
    29. Winwood Reade described his visit to the Ashanti Royal Palace of Kumasi in 1874: “We went to the king’s palace, which consists of many courtyards, each surrounded with alcoves and verandahs, and having two gates or doors, so that each yard was a thoroughfare . . . But the part of the palace fronting the street was a stone house, Moorish in its style . . . with a flat roof and a parapet, and suites of apartments on the first floor. It was built by Fanti masons many years ago. The rooms upstairs remind me of Wardour Street. Each was a perfect Old Curiosity Shop. Books in many languages, Bohemian glass, clocks, silver plate, old furniture, Persian rugs, Kidderminster carpets, pictures and engravings, numberless chests and coffers. A sword bearing the inscription From Queen Victoria to the King of Ashantee. A copy of the Times, 17 October 1843. With these were many specimens of Moorish and Ashanti handicraft.”
    30. In the mid-nineteenth century, William Clarke, an English visitor to Nigeria, remarked that: “As good an article of cloth can be woven by the Yoruba weavers as by any people . . . in durability, their cloths far excel the prints and home-spuns of Manchester.”
    31. The recently discovered 9th century Nigerian city of Eredo was found to be surrounded by a wall that was 100 miles long and seventy feet high in places. The internal area was a staggering 400 square miles.
    32. On the subject of cloth, Kongolese textiles were also distinguished. Various European writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries wrote of the delicate crafts of the peoples living in eastern Kongo and adjacent regions who manufactured damasks, sarcenets, satins, taffeta, cloth of tissue and velvet. Professor DeGraft-Johnson made the curious observation that: “Their brocades, both high and low, were far more valuable than the Italian.”
    33. On Kongolese metallurgy of the Middle Ages, one modern scholar wrote that: “There is no doubting . . . the existence of an expert metallurgical art in the ancient Kongo . . . The Bakongo were aware of the toxicity of lead vapours. They devised preventative and curative methods, both pharmacological (massive doses of pawpaw and palm oil) and mechanical (exerting of pressure to free the digestive tract), for combating lead poisoning.”
      [11/03, 5:49 pm] Tequila: 58. In Nigeria, the royal palace in the city of Kano dates back to the fifteenth century. Begun by Muhammad Rumfa (ruled 1463-99) it has gradually evolved over generations into a very imposing complex. A colonial report of the city from 1902, described it as “a network of buildings covering an area of 33 acres and surrounded by a wall 20 to 30 feet high outside and 15 feet inside . . . in itself no mean citadel”.
    34. A sixteenth century traveller visited the central African civilisation of Kanem-Borno and commented that the emperor’s cavalry had golden “stirrups, spurs, bits and buckles.” Even the ruler’s dogs had “chains of the finest gold”.
    35. One of the government positions in mediaeval Kanem-Borno was Astronomer Royal.
    36. Ngazargamu, the capital city of Kanem-Borno, became one of the largest cities in the seventeenth century world. By 1658 AD, the metropolis, according to an architectural scholar housed “about quarter of a million people”. It had 660 streets. Many were wide and unbending, reflective of town planning.
    37. The Nigerian city of Surame flourished in the sixteenth century. Even in ruin it was an impressive sight, built on a horizontal vertical grid. A modern scholar describes it thus: “The walls of Surame are about 10 miles in circumference and include many large bastions or walled suburbs running out at right angles to the main wall. The large compound at Kanta is still visible in the centre, with ruins of many buildings, one of which is said to have been two-storied. The striking feature of the walls and whole ruins is the extensive use of stone and tsokuwa (laterite gravel) or very hard red building mud, evidently brought from a distance. There is a big mound of this near the north gate about 8 feet in height. The walls show regular courses of masonry to a height of 20 feet and more in several places. The best preserved portion is that known as sirati (the bridge) a little north of the eastern gate . . . The main city walls here appear to have provided a very strongly guarded entrance about 30 feet wide.”
    38. The Nigerian city of Kano in 1851 produced an estimated 10 million pairs of sandals and 5 million hides each year for export.
    39. In 1246 AD Dunama II of Kanem-Borno exchanged embassies with Al-Mustansir, the king of Tunis. He sent the North African court a costly present, which apparently included a giraffe. An old chronicle noted that the rare animal “created a sensation in Tunis”.
      [11/03, 5:50 pm] Tequila: 65. By the third century BC the city of Carthage on the coast of Tunisia was opulent and impressive. It had a population of 700,000 and may even have approached a million. Lining both sides of three streets were rows of tall houses six storeys high.
    40. The Ethiopian city of Axum has a series of 7 giant obelisks that date from perhaps 300 BC to 300 AD. They have details carved into them that represent windows and doorways of several storeys. The largest obelisk, now fallen, is in fact “the largest monolith ever made anywhere in the world”. It is 108 feet long, weighs a staggering 500 tons, and represents a thirteen-storey building.
    41. Ethiopia minted its own coins over 1,500 years ago. One scholar wrote that: “Almost no other contemporary state anywhere in the world could issue in gold, a statement of sovereignty achieved only by Rome, Persia, and the Kushan kingdom in northern India at the time.”
    42. The Ethiopian script of the 4th century AD influenced the writing script of Armenia. A Russian historian noted that: “Soon after its creation, the Ethiopic vocalised script began to influence the scripts of Armenia and Georgia. D. A. Olderogge suggested that Mesrop Mashtotz used the vocalised Ethiopic script when he invented the Armenian alphabet.”
    43. “In the first half of the first millennium CE,” says a modern scholar, Ethiopia “was ranked as one of the world’s greatest empires”. A Persian cleric of the third century AD identified it as the third most important state in the world after Persia and Rome.
    44. Ethiopia has 11 underground mediaeval churches built by being carved out of the ground. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD, Roha became the new capital of the Ethiopians. Conceived as a New Jerusalem by its founder, Emperor Lalibela (c.1150-1230), it contains 11 churches, all carved out of the rock of the mountains by hammer and chisel. All of the temples were carved to a depth of 11 metres or so below ground level. The largest is the House of the Redeemer, a staggering 33.7 metres long, 23.7 metres wide and 11.5 metres deep.
    45. Lalibela is not the only place in Ethiopia to have such wonders. A cotemporary archaeologist reports research that was conducted in the region in the early 1970’s when: “startling numbers of churches built in caves or partially or completely cut from the living rock were revealed not only in Tigre and Lalibela but as far south as Addis Ababa. Soon at least 1,500 were known. At least as many more probably await revelation.”
    46. In 1209 AD Emperor Lalibela of Ethiopia sent an embassy to Cairo bringing the sultan unusual gifts including an elephant, a hyena, a zebra, and a giraffe.
    47. In Southern Africa, there are at least 600 stone built ruins in the regions of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. These ruins are called Mazimbabwe in Shona, the Bantu language of the builders, and means great revered house and “signifies court”.
    48. The Great Zimbabwe was the largest of these ruins. It consists of 12 clusters of buildings, spread over 3 square miles. Its outer walls were made from 100,000 tons of granite bricks. In the fourteenth century, the city housed 18,000 people, comparable in size to that of London of the same period.
    49. Bling culture existed in this region. At the time of our last visit, the Horniman Museum in London had exhibits of headrests with the caption: “Headrests have been used in Africa since the time of the Egyptian pharaohs. Remains of some headrests, once covered in gold foil, have been found in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe and burial sites like Mapungubwe dating to the twelfth century after Christ.”
      [11/03, 5:50 pm] Tequila: 76. Dr Albert Churchward, author of Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, pointed out that writing was found in one of the stone built ruins: “Lt.-Col. E. L. de Cordes . . . who was in South Africa for three years, informed the writer that in one of the ‘Ruins’ there is a ‘stone-chamber,’ with a vast quantity of Papyri, covered with old Egyptian hieroglyphics. A Boer hunter discovered this, and a large quantity was used to light a fire with, and yet still a larger quantity remained there now.”
    50. On bling culture, one seventeenth century visitor to southern African empire of Monomotapa, that ruled over this vast region, wrote that: “The people dress in various ways: at court of the Kings their grandees wear cloths of rich silk, damask, satin, gold and silk cloth; these are three widths of satin, each width four covados [2.64m], each sewn to the next, sometimes with gold lace in between, trimmed on two sides, like a carpet, with a gold and silk fringe, sewn in place with a two fingers’ wide ribbon, woven with gold roses on silk.”
    51. Southern Africans mined gold on an epic scale. One modern writer tells us that: “The estimated amount of gold ore mined from the entire region by the ancients was staggering, exceeding 43 million tons. The ore yielded nearly 700 tons of pure gold which today would be valued at over $7.5 billion.”
    52. Apparently the Monomotapan royal palace at Mount Fura had chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. An eighteenth century geography book provided the following data: “The inside consists of a great variety of sumptuous apartments, spacious and lofty halls, all adorned with a magnificent cotton tapestry, the manufacture of the country. The floors, cielings [sic], beams and rafters are all either gilt or plated with gold curiously wrought, as are also the chairs of state, tables, benches &c. The candle-sticks and branches are made of ivory inlaid with gold, and hang from the cieling by chains of the same metal, or of silver gilt.”
    53. Monomotapa had a social welfare system. Antonio Bocarro, a Portuguese contemporary, informs us that the Emperor: “shows great charity to the blind and maimed, for these are called the king’s poor, and have land and revenues for their subsistence, and when they wish to pass through the kingdoms, wherever they come food and drinks are given to them at the public cost as long as they remain there, and when they leave that place to go to another they are provided with what is necessary for their journey, and a guide, and some one to carry their wallet to the next village. In every place where they come there is the same obligation.”
    54. Many southern Africans have indigenous and pre-colonial words for ‘gun’. Scholars have generally been reluctant to investigate or explain this fact.
    55. Evidence discovered in 1978 showed that East Africans were making steel for more than 1,500 years: “Assistant Professor of Anthropology Peter Schmidt and Professor of Engineering Donald H. Avery have found as long as 2,000 years ago Africans living on the western shores of Lake Victoria had produced carbon steel in preheated forced draft furnaces, a method that was technologically more sophisticated than any developed in Europe until the mid-nineteenth century.”
    56. Ruins of a 300 BC astronomical observatory was found at Namoratunga in Kenya. Africans were mapping the movements of stars such as Triangulum, Aldebaran, Bellatrix, Central Orion, etcetera, as well as the moon, in order to create a lunar calendar of 354 days.
    57. Autopsies and caesarean operations were routinely and effectively carried out by surgeons in pre-colonial Uganda. The surgeons routinely used antiseptics, anaesthetics and cautery iron. Commenting on a Ugandan caesarean operation that appeared in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1884, one author wrote: “The whole conduct of the operation . . . suggests a skilled long-practiced surgical team at work conducting a well-tried and familiar operation with smooth efficiency.”
      [11/03, 5:51 pm] Tequila: 85. Sudan in the mediaeval period had churches, cathedrals, monasteries and castles. Their ruins still exist today.
    58. The mediaeval Nubian Kingdoms kept archives. From the site of Qasr Ibrim legal texts, documents and correspondence were discovered. An archaeologist informs us that: “On the site are preserved thousands of documents in Meroitic, Latin, Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian, Arabic and Turkish.”
    59. Glass windows existed in mediaeval Sudan. Archaeologists found evidence of window glass at the Sudanese cities of Old Dongola and Hambukol.
    60. Bling culture existed in the mediaeval Sudan. Archaeologists found an individual buried at the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in the city of Old Dongola. He was clad in an extremely elaborate garb consisting of costly textiles of various fabrics including gold thread. At the city of Soba East, there were individuals buried in fine clothing, including items with golden thread.
    61. Style and fashion existed in mediaeval Sudan. A dignitary at Jebel Adda in the late thirteenth century AD was interned with a long coat of red and yellow patterned damask folded over his body. Underneath, he wore plain cotton trousers of long and baggy cut. A pair of red leather slippers with turned up toes lay at the foot of the coffin. The body was wrapped in enormous pieces of gold brocaded striped silk.
    62. Sudan in the ninth century AD had housing complexes with bath rooms and piped water. An archaeologist wrote that Old Dongola, the capital of Makuria, had: “a[n] . . . eighth to . . . ninth century housing complex. The houses discovered here differ in their hitherto unencountered spatial layout as well as their functional programme (water supply installation, bathroom with heating system) and interiors decorated with murals.”
    63. In 619 AD, the Nubians sent a gift of a giraffe to the Persians.
    64. The East Coast, from Somalia to Mozambique, has ruins of well over 50 towns and cities. They flourished from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries AD.
    65. Chinese records of the fifteenth century AD note that Mogadishu had houses of “four or five storeys high”.
    66. Gedi, near the coast of Kenya, is one of the East African ghost towns. Its ruins, dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, include the city walls, the palace, private houses, the Great Mosque, seven smaller mosques, and three pillar tombs.
    67. The ruined mosque in the Kenyan city of Gedi had a water purifier made of limestone for recycling water.
    68. The palace in the Kenyan city of Gedi contains evidence of piped water controlled by taps. In addition it had bathrooms and indoor toilets.
    69. A visitor in 1331 AD considered the Tanzanian city of Kilwa to be of world class. He wrote that it was the “principal city on the coast the greater part of whose inhabitants are Zanj of very black complexion.” Later on he says that: “Kilwa is one of the most beautiful and well-constructed cities in the world. The whole of it is elegantly built.”
    70. Bling culture existed in early Tanzania. A Portuguese chronicler of the sixteenth century wrote that: “[T]hey are finely clad in many rich garments of gold and silk and cotton, and the women as well; also with much gold and silver chains and bracelets, which they wear on their legs and arms, and many jewelled earrings in their ears”.
    71. In 1961 a British archaeologist, found the ruins of Husuni Kubwa, the royal palace of the Tanzanian city of Kilwa. It had over a hundred rooms, including a reception hall, galleries, courtyards, terraces and an octagonal swimming pool.
    72. In 1414 the Kenyan city of Malindi sent ambassadors to China carrying a gift that created a sensation at the Imperial Court. It was, of course, a giraffe. #afticanhistory #afticanculture #africa

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  • THE HISTORY OF JERICHO IN NAIROBI KENYA INCLUDING  THE FORMER US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, THIS IS INTERESTING.

    After Kenya’s independence, Jericho was formed as a settlement specifically for the African working class. It was built with help from the Israeli government. Jericho houses are currently owned by the Nairobi City County, which is led by a Governor.
    Jericho (Pronunciation: -‘jer-i-“kO) is an estate in Nairobi, Kenya just east of the Nairobi Province. It is a constituent of Makadara Constituency. Ofafa Jericho and Jericho Lumumba are located in the Eastlands suburbs of Nairobi , neighbouring, Makadara,Buru Buru, Harambee, Uhuru, Maringo and Jerusalem Estates.
    Housing. All of the homes are the same shape and size. They are double storied houses with one tenant living on the ground floor and another on the top floor. Most of the area’s companies use the outside of these houses as advertising space and in return they paint the inside of the home for the resident(s). Most of these houses are occupied by young men who have inherited the homes from their parents who have either relocated to the rural areas or died. Due to lack of constant income, many home owners rent rooms within the houses for profit. The tenants pay an average of KSh.2,500–3,000/= for their occupancy.

    Society and culture
    The Jericho area is occupied by almost all tribes in Kenya. The primary language of its inhabitants is called (Sheng) which is a mixture of English, Swahili and various vernacular languages. The average age of Jericho inhabitants is 35 years. The children of these residents attend city council schools which paid for by the government. With respect to healthcare, with the increase in healthcare education and services to this city, the prevalence of health concerns like HIV/AIDS and infant mortality has dropped significantly.Business and economyThe average pay for a Jeri resident is around KSh.20,000/= and they use approximately KSh.100/= daily for food in a day. Employment in Jericho centers around cottage industries, short contracts in the transport business, and FMCG vending. Some of the residents are mid-tire working class citizens but most also self-employed in small-medium enterprises. The youth of Jericho have also started various youth ventures such as garbage collection and car mechanical repairs.
    Notable people from Jericho
    Jericho was home to the late Kisoi Munyao, the man who hoisted the Kenyan Flag on Mt. Kenya on 12 December 1963 during independence day. It was also home to the late,[1] the late Bildad Kaggia, Mzee Teacher (Karate legend). Robert Napunyi Wangila is still the only Kenyan Olympic boxing gold medalist even 22 years after his death. He was a celebrated Kenyan boxer who won gold medal in 1988 summer Olympic games. He was born and raised in Jericho estate in Nairobi. and many others..
    It was the home of Barack Obama, Sr., a senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance, his first wife, and their children.[citation needed] Obama is the father of United States President Barack Obama by his second wife.
    Jericho is known to be the home of many famous Kenyan football players. The main football field in Jericho, otherwise known as “TOYOYO STADIUM” has produced many players that have gone on to play in the Kenyan national team (Harambee Stars) and also professionally in Europe. Most notable among these are John “Shoto” Lukoye, Benard “Zico” Otieno, Jacob “Ghost” Mulee, George Olubendi among others.
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  • THE NAME EUROPA WAS THE NAME OF AN AFRIKAN WOMAN WHO WAS CALLED YOUROPA, BEFORE BECOMING THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT.

    EUROPE IS NAMED AFTER THE BLACK PHENICIAN GODDESS YOUROPA!! First of all, the Phoenicians were BLACK!!! Europe wa

    THE NAME EUROPA WAS THE NAME OF AN AFRIKAN WOMAN WHO WAS CALLED YOUROPA, BEFORE BECOMING THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT.

    EUROPE IS NAMED AFTER THE BLACK PHENICIAN GODDESS YOUROPA!! First of all, the Phoenicians were BLACK!!! Europe was inhabited by the Moors before the current EUROPEANS, and was named Europe in honor of Princess Youropa, a Moorish sister (black Phoenician goddess) Youropa is commonly associated with a bull, this doesn’t make much sense if you don’t know the history Kemetics. She was a Phoenician princess and goddess who Zeus, the Greek god, fell in love with because she was so beautiful. Then he transformed himself into a bull and carried her to Crete, a Greek island. Europa is the Greek version of the Kemetic Goddess Hathor symbolically. Youropa’s father is the Phoenician king Agenor of Tyre. King Agenor was born in ancient Egypt (Kemet), the son of Poseidon and Libya. This would make her the granddaughter of Poseidon. Maybe they never told you this truth in their schools, but today you know that nothing exists in the history of planet Earth that does not have Afrikan origins.

    s inhabited by the Moors before the current EUROPEANS, and was named Europe in honor of Princess Youropa, a Moorish sister (black Phoenician goddess) Youropa is commonly associated with a bull, this doesn’t make much sense if you don’t know the history Kemetics. She was a Phoenician princess and goddess who Zeus, the Greek god, fell in love with because she was so beautiful. Then he transformed himself into a bull and carried her to Crete, a Greek island. Europa is the Greek version of the Kemetic Goddess Hathor symbolically. Youropa’s father is the Phoenician king Agenor of Tyre. King Agenor was born in ancient Egypt (Kemet), the son of Poseidon and Libya. This would make her the granddaughter of Poseidon. Maybe they never told you this truth in their schools, but today you know that nothing exists in the history of planet Earth that does not Afrikan origins.

    THE NAME EUROPA WAS THE NAME OF AN AFRIKAN WOMAN WHO WAS CALLED YOUROPA, BEFORE BECOMING THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT.

    EUROPE IS NAMED AFTER THE BLACK PHENICIAN GODDESS YOUROPA!! First of all, the Phoenicians were BLACK!!! Europe was inhabited by the Moors before the current EUROPEANS, and was named Europe in honor of Princess Youropa, a Moorish sister (black Phoenician goddess) Youropa is commonly associated with a bull, this doesn’t make much sense if you don’t know the history Kemetics. She was a Phoenician princess and goddess who Zeus, the Greek god, fell in love with because she was so beautiful. Then he transformed himself into a bull and carried her to Crete, a Greek island. Europa is the Greek version of the Kemetic Goddess Hathor symbolically. Youropa’s father is the Phoenician king Agenor of Tyre. King Agenor was born in ancient Egypt (Kemet), the son of Poseidon and Libya. This would make her the granddaughter of Poseidon. Maybe they never told you this truth in their schools, but today you know that nothing exists in the history of planet Earth that does not have Afrikan origins.

  • There is only one Afrakan linguistic family tree. However, there are branches within this family.

    The earliest is Mdu-Hapi. This originated in Central-East Africa with the dawn of homosapiens. This branch is often mislabeled by Europeans as the “Nilo-Saharan” family. The oldest members include people like the Luo, Maasai, Dinka, Nuer, etc. The ancient Twa language was also Mdu-Hapi, but most Twa people today have adopted the languages of newer Bantu immigrants. Mdu-Hapi languages also spread into the Sahel and Sahara. Sara, Kanuri, and Songhai are all classified as so-called Nilo-Saharan, which is really Mdu-Hapi. Egyptologist Albert Churchward proved over a century ago that both the Kushite and Kemetic languages were of the Mdu-Hapi branch (Nilo-Saharan) of the African linguistic tree. The surviving Nubian language remains Mdu-Hapi.

    The Khoisan languages diverged earliest. These were nomadic Twa people who moved south of the equator. They retain some ancient elements of Mdu-Hapi that have changed due to foreign influence in more recent centuries. For example, both Mdu-Hapi and Khoisan contained “click” sounds in ancient times. The Kemetic language was full of these ancient clicks.

    The next branch to diverge was the Mdu-Omo branch. It is named so because it developed first in the Omo Valley of southwest Ethiopia. This branch is mislabeled “Afro-Asiatic” by Europoids. However, it was not developed in Asia so there is nothing “Asiatic” about it. This branch is very important historically which is why Europoid linguists have tried so desperately to cloud the nature of this branch by using fake biblical concepts like Semetic and Cushitic. The term “Cushitic” is inappropriate for it because the so-called Cushitic languages are not the same as that of actual Kush (which was Mdu-Hapi/Nilo-Saharan). This biblical misnaming has brought great confusion. The Medu-Ntchr and Meroitic written languages belong to the Mdu-Hapi (Nilo-Saharan) branch, not the so-called Afro-Asiatic branch. Either way, both belong to the African linguistic tree.

    The next branch to diverge was the Mdu-Djoliba branch. This branch is mislabeled “Niger” by Europoids. Though named after the river, the word Niger has no origin in West Africa so it is inaccurate. The most widely known indigenous name for that great river is the Manding name “Djoliba.” In antiquity (around the time of the expansionist Nok civilization), a significant but small population of Mdu-Djoliba speakers lived in Central Africa

    The fifth branch to diverge was the Mdu-Malagasy branch. This branch is unique in that it originated from Khoisan speakers who settled Madagascar; however, the isolation of that great island caused it to develop distinct characteristics in the language and phenotype of the people. While yellow-brown skin, flat noses, full lips, and “slanted” eyes was a trait they brought with them from the Khoisan, it was in the isolation period of Madagascar that they developed a common trait for wavy hair that they would take with them as they settled Southeast Asia’s islands. Contrary to Europoid lies, the presence of Malagasy in Madagascar did not come from the South East Asia’s islands, but was brought there by people from Madagascar, who are the origin of the Mongoloid features (though Mongoloids developed into a distinct race of their own).

    The youngest branch is the Mdu-Bantu branch. This branch is complex in that it is actually a melting pot of earlier branches. This branch originated from Kushite-Kemetic sailors who sought refuge in East Africa’s coast due to invasion. However, their new land (Kenya-Tanzania) was already home to other Mdu-Hapi speakers (such as the Maasai and Luo), Khoisan, as well as a considerable amount of Mdu-Djoliba speakers who arrived there during Nok expansionism. The mixture of all of these languages gave birth to the Bantu branch, whose oldest member is Pre-Islamic KiSwahili. The Bantu eventually grew to become the most populous group in East Africa and spread out into Central and Southern Africa.

    As you can see, the six branches of the African linguistic Tree reveal the interconnectedness of the African race.

    Give thanks to MaTseba. #africanhistory #afruca #afrique #kemet #kushite #cush #kushkingdom

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  • THE AMAZIGH!

    Amazighs are very likely the direct descendants of the Mesolithic and Neolithic Caspian populations that live between 8000 and 2700 BC in North Africa. The reason why there are many Amazigh groups that are quite different from each other is the vast extent of the North African territory where they have live for millennia. Each region has its specific geographical characteristics imposing therefore a specific lifestyle. That’s why the northern regions of North Africa that have a Mediterranean climate with regular seasons has a sedentary population, while hotter and arid regions in the High Plateaus and the Sahara have nomadic populations.

    The Amazighs live in scattered communities across Morocco 🇲🇦 Algeria 🇩🇿 Tunisia 🇹🇳 Libya 🇱🇾 Egypt 🇪🇬 Mali 🇲🇱 Niger 🇳🇪 and Mauritania 🇲🇷 They speak various Amazigh languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family related to ancient Egyptian.

    The Amazighs, indigenous to North Africa, have a rich and ancient culture. Their traditional crafts, including jewellery, pottery, weaving, and henna art, hold great value and have been passed down for generations.

    The heaviest concentration of Amazighs speakers is found in Morocco. Major Amazigh languages include Tashelhit (Tashelhiyt, Tashelhait, Shilha), Tarifit, Kabyle, Tamazight, and Tamahaq.

    In North Africa, the The Amazighs religion was based on Phoenician and Punic deities, with a god (Baal) and a goddess (Tanit).

  • The land of Nubia once included Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia at its height. The Nubian people were advance civilization with all the sciences such as, math, agriculture, astrology and in  architectural design to named a few. Sudan has some 223 pyramids twice as many as that of Egypt.

    Nubia was a powerhouse of Kings, Queens, Priest and intellectual scholars. The land was rich in Ivory, Copper, Gold and Ebony. Nubian people place a high regard on the development of the human mind  because with a highly cultivated mind there is ultimately nothing that can’t be accomplish.

    Many scholars believe that the Nubians created the world’s first civilization and that civilization was much older than Egypt. In fact, in 2000, archeologists discovered many fascinating artefacts, including glasswork of great beauty and excellent craftsmanship. These were found in Sudan and according to Time Magazine, some artefacts were dated to about 8000 years B.C. Astronomy was also well organized in Nubia during the period and an astronomical observatory dating back to about 7000 B.C. was found in Sudan as well. It is also in Sudan that a large number of ancient cities exist. The History of Nubian civilization extends back to about 17,000 years.

    #uganda#sudan#ethiopia#kemet #nubia #africanhistory #EastAfricanHistory #africa  #ancientkemet #ancientegypt

  • 4,400-year-old lost Egyptian tomb rediscovered with mummy inside

    4,400-year-old lost Egyptian tomb rediscovered with mummy inside

    Czech archaeologists have rediscovered the lost tomb of ancient Egyptian high official Ptahshepses, who lived during the 24th and 25th centuries BCE.
    The discovery was announced in a statement published on Facebook by the Czech Institute of Egyptology – a department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University in Prague.
    Ptahshepses’s tomb was found in the zone between the pyramid fields of Abusir and Saqqara.

    It was partially exposed nearly 160 years ago by French archaeologist Auguste Mariette, who uncovered a huge false door and a lintel originally placed above the cult chapel’s entrance. The sands of the Western Desert soon covered the tomb again.
    “It was a difficult search lasting several years,” says Miroslav Barta, head of research at Abusir.

    Detailed satellite imagery of the area and the study of old maps led to the rediscovery of the tomb of Ptahshepses in 2022. The tomb of a man who changed the course of Egyptian history has thus been rediscovered, representing one of the expedition’s greatest recent discoveries. The research is still ongoing, and further discoveries will likely be made to shed new light on his family and times.” The high official served under Nyuserre Ini – a pharaoh during the Old Kingdom period. Nyuserre was the sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty.
    “Given Ptahshepses’s political, historical and religious significance, the tomb is one of the most remarkable discoveries of the recent periods in Egyptian archaeology,” the Czech mission statement asserts.
    They also highlight the tomb’s role as a link between the mastaba where Ptahshepses was buried and the neighbouring extensive family tombs, such as that of senior official Ty whose nearby tomb was constructed at about the same time.
    Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, near the tomb of Ptahshepses. Credit: M. Bárta / Czech Institute of Egyptology via Facebook.
    Ptahshepses’s mastaba measures 42 by 22 metres. It is more than 4 metres high.
    While the burial chamber was robbed centuries or even millennia ago, the team found pottery, remains of votive offerings, canopic jars and the world’s first example of a mummified fish.
    The partially opened sarcophagus still contained the complete mummy of Ptahshepses.
    Analysis of the mummy confirms that Ptahshepses lived a long time – a fact hinted to by the inscriptions on the false door. That biography suggests that he lived during the reign of 6 kings of the late fourth and fifth dynasties: Menkaura, Shepseskaf, Userkaf, Sahura, Neferirkara and Nyuserra.
    According to anthropologists, he lived to the age of 65 years or more. #egyptian  #Egypt #africanculture #african #africa

    Czech archaeologists have rediscovered the lost tomb of ancient Egyptian high official Ptahshepses, who lived during the 24th and 25th centuries BCE.
    The discovery was announced in a statement published on Facebook by the Czech Institute of Egyptology – a department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University in Prague.
    Ptahshepses’s tomb was found in the zone between the pyramid fields of Abusir and Saqqara.

    It was partially exposed nearly 160 years ago by French archaeologist Auguste Mariette, who uncovered a huge false door and a lintel originally placed above the cult chapel’s entrance. The sands of the Western Desert soon covered the tomb again.
    “It was a difficult search lasting several years,” says Miroslav Barta, head of research at Abusir.

    Detailed satellite imagery of the area and the study of old maps led to the rediscovery of the tomb of Ptahshepses in 2022. The tomb of a man who changed the course of Egyptian history has thus been rediscovered, representing one of the expedition’s greatest recent discoveries. The research is still ongoing, and further discoveries will likely be made to shed new light on his family and times.” The high official served under Nyuserre Ini – a pharaoh during the Old Kingdom period. Nyuserre was the sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty.
    “Given Ptahshepses’s political, historical and religious significance, the tomb is one of the most remarkable discoveries of the recent periods in Egyptian archaeology,” the Czech mission statement asserts.
    They also highlight the tomb’s role as a link between the mastaba where Ptahshepses was buried and the neighbouring extensive family tombs, such as that of senior official Ty whose nearby tomb was constructed at about the same time.
    Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, near the tomb of Ptahshepses. Credit: M. Bárta / Czech Institute of Egyptology via Facebook.
    Ptahshepses’s mastaba measures 42 by 22 metres. It is more than 4 metres high.
    While the burial chamber was robbed centuries or even millennia ago, the team found pottery, remains of votive offerings, canopic jars and the world’s first example of a mummified fish.
    The partially opened sarcophagus still contained the complete mummy of Ptahshepses.
    Analysis of the mummy confirms that Ptahshepses lived a long time – a fact hinted to by the inscriptions on the false door. That biography suggests that he lived during the reign of 6 kings of the late fourth and fifth dynasties: Menkaura, Shepseskaf, Userkaf, Sahura, Neferirkara and Nyuserra.
    According to anthropologists, he lived to the age of 65 years or more. #egyptian  #Egypt #africanculture #african #africa

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