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It said that a people who do not know their history, will never know who they are. A people who do not know who they are, will never attain their potentials. Was it a cover up or a human error that Thurstan Shaw failed to tell the world what he found when he excavated Igbo Ukwu over fifty years ago? Wrong and false dating of Nigerian artifacts has been the norm since the dawn of Archaeology in Nigeria. We no longer can trust these kinds of dating because they have short-changed our history by thousands of years. They are all part of the ploy to keep Africans perennially in bondage and Igbos in particular from knowing that they were the world's first bearers of civilization, missionaries and colonists. Certainly it was not an accident of History, but a well orchestrated plot aimed at extinguishing Igbo origins of Egyptian civilization, that ten mammoth step pyramids located in the village of Abaja in Nsude town in Northern Nigeria (an still in existence by 1932), disappeared without a trace and without any official entry being made of them in any archive or historical records by the British anthropologists, colonialists and missionaries
This website is created to tell the hidden history of the Igbos. The history the world did not want you to know. The global conspiracy against the Igbos who by historical and archaeological evidence are the the first people on earth. Igbo language is the first language to be spoken on earth. The language which God spoke to create the world was Igbo language. The language which gods and men spoke. God's most sacred name is Igbo. God's most sacred language is Igbo. God's most sacred land is Igbo land. God's most sacred people are the Igbo nation in Nigeria. Igbo people populated the world. The Igbo are the world's first bearers of civilization, missionaries and colonists .
This website is created to tell the hidden history of the Igbos. The history the world did not want you to know. The global conspiracy against the Igbos who by historical and archaeological evidence are the the first people on earth. Igbo language is the first language to be spoken on earth. The language which God spoke to create the world was Igbo language. The language which gods and men spoke. God's most sacred name is Igbo. God's most sacred language is Igbo. God's most sacred land is Igbo land. God's most sacred people are the Igbo nation in Nigeria. Igbo people populated the world. The Igbo are the world's first bearers of civilization, missionaries and colonists .
All scholars of Sub-Saharan African Studies have felt a major frustration arising from the absence of the kind of written records and historical monuments that characterize other civilizations such as Rome, Egypt, Greece and make the achievements of these civilizations easily accessible to archaeologists, linguists and historians. The absence of these records has given the impression that Black Africans had no part in the making of world civilizations and that the only history that can be credited to them is recent Anno Domini History after Muslim and Christian missionaries invaded the continent.
Intent on challenging this notion, we set upon the laborious project of searching out Africa’s Pre-History and lost past. Our method was to go backwards in time, from the known to the unknown. The idea was that if Black Africans had any part in the making of world civilizations, the records would still exist in the surviving records of other continents. This method of approach has thrown up plenty of surprises indicating that Black Africans were the core creators of civilizations as far-flung as Sumer, Hindu Cush, Meso-America, China, to mention just a few.
In 2001 while I was serving as Presidential Adviser on Arts and Culture, I was on tour of Nigerian Museums when I stumbled on the ancient inscribed monoliths of Ikom Local Government in Cross River State, Nigeria, known internationally to researchers as Ikom Monoliths. Suspecting that the inscriptions on the monoliths are writings, I embarked upon another search – that of decoding the strange inscriptions so as to successfully prove that ancient Africans had written records. This took me to Ikom about three hundred kilometers from Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria where there are about 300 of these inscribed stones, located in local communities in the forests and villages of Ikom Local Government. Between 2001 and 2005, I set up a research team under the auspices of the United Nations Forum of Arts and Culture, for the purpose of advancing the monolith research. As our work on, the project metamorphosed into the Catherine Acholonu Research Center for African Cultural Sciences, which is still in its fledgling stages and is registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission under the name Catherine Acholonu Center for African Cultural Sciences.
In 2004 our team attempted to isolate and decode the letters from the monoliths inscriptions through comparative analysis with other known ancient languages. We struggled with such writing systems as Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Sumerian Cuneiform and Proto-Cuneiform, Cretan Linea A, Phoenician, Hebrew, Dravidian Malayalam and Harappan, Chinese, etc. In 2004 when Engr. Ajay Prabhakar, an Indian Software Technology Engineer joined our staff as Country Programs Coordinator of the UN Forum of Arts and Culture, we co-opted him into the monolith research. Interestingly it was Engr. Prabhakar who drew our attention to some bizarre inscriptions on a sacred pot-stand among the Igbo-Ukwu bronze artifacts unearthed by British archaeologist Thurstan Shaw in the 1960s and celebrated worldwide as being in a superlative class of its own among Africa’s ancient Bronze monuments. The Igbo Ukwu symbols were the key that led to the successful deciphering of first series the monoliths inscriptions. Our joint publication on the subject was a 500-page book titled The Gram Code of African Adam – Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa’s Lost Civilizations, Afa Publications, Abuja, 2005. Ajay Prabhakar’s contributions in that research earned him a Doctorate Degree from the Pilgrim’s University and Theological Seminary, North Carolina, USA while I myself was awarded a Professorship of African History and Philosophy by the same institution for my work in The Gram Code. For this present work on Igbo origins, however, we are launching a new contributor - Eddy Olumba, a graduate of Fine Arts from Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York and former Executive Assistant to the Governor of Imo State, whose sound knowledge of Igbo folklore and proverbs have proved very useful in our interpretations.
In the book The Gram Code, we illustrated the stage by stage procedures employed in our transcription and decoding of a number of the monoliths inscriptions. Most of the letters are written in mirror-image and could be read from left to right and from right to left. Facial features such as eyes, noses, mouths and ears are expressed in abstract forms which turned out to be letters. (See Plate 1) We had to isolate each symbol and break it down into its basic units before whole words began to emerge and with them sentences. In summary, our findings in the course of transcribing the inscriptions is that a number of the letters they bear have cognates in alphabetical systems as far flung as Egyptian hieroglyphics, Dravidian and Sumerian Cuneiform and Proto cuneiform. The mere presence of this corpus of ancient writings deep in the forests, swamps and villages of Ikom from an indeterminate period in the life of the local peoples, is ample attestation that the cradle of human civilization may well have begun in this part of the world. We have consistently shared our findings with members of the academic community since the early days of the project. In January, 2007 we were invited by TARA, the Trust for African Rock Art and CBAAC - the Center for Black and African Civilization to make presentations on the themes of “African Rock Art as Script and Means of Communication” and “African Rock Art as Historical Document” before a veteran but skeptical team of archaeologists, historians and anthropologists at the Methodology Workshop on Rock Art and the Pan-African Renaissance in Nairobi, Kenya. At the end of our two presentations the group constituted itself into committees to promote the study and research on African Rock Art as Script and historical documentation among other things!
All this becomes more intriguing when we consider the fact held by linguists that the original homeland of the Bantu sub-culture that colonized three-quarters of Black Africa is within the Benue/Ikom linguistic geographical zone. Clearly this belt of culture known to linguists and anthropologists as the Niger-Congo language family, within which falls the Bantu sub-group, has been a fulcrum and a vortex of cultural development leading to successive waves of human migration to various parts of the world from time immemorial.
Intent on challenging this notion, we set upon the laborious project of searching out Africa’s Pre-History and lost past. Our method was to go backwards in time, from the known to the unknown. The idea was that if Black Africans had any part in the making of world civilizations, the records would still exist in the surviving records of other continents. This method of approach has thrown up plenty of surprises indicating that Black Africans were the core creators of civilizations as far-flung as Sumer, Hindu Cush, Meso-America, China, to mention just a few.
In 2001 while I was serving as Presidential Adviser on Arts and Culture, I was on tour of Nigerian Museums when I stumbled on the ancient inscribed monoliths of Ikom Local Government in Cross River State, Nigeria, known internationally to researchers as Ikom Monoliths. Suspecting that the inscriptions on the monoliths are writings, I embarked upon another search – that of decoding the strange inscriptions so as to successfully prove that ancient Africans had written records. This took me to Ikom about three hundred kilometers from Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria where there are about 300 of these inscribed stones, located in local communities in the forests and villages of Ikom Local Government. Between 2001 and 2005, I set up a research team under the auspices of the United Nations Forum of Arts and Culture, for the purpose of advancing the monolith research. As our work on, the project metamorphosed into the Catherine Acholonu Research Center for African Cultural Sciences, which is still in its fledgling stages and is registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission under the name Catherine Acholonu Center for African Cultural Sciences.
In 2004 our team attempted to isolate and decode the letters from the monoliths inscriptions through comparative analysis with other known ancient languages. We struggled with such writing systems as Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Sumerian Cuneiform and Proto-Cuneiform, Cretan Linea A, Phoenician, Hebrew, Dravidian Malayalam and Harappan, Chinese, etc. In 2004 when Engr. Ajay Prabhakar, an Indian Software Technology Engineer joined our staff as Country Programs Coordinator of the UN Forum of Arts and Culture, we co-opted him into the monolith research. Interestingly it was Engr. Prabhakar who drew our attention to some bizarre inscriptions on a sacred pot-stand among the Igbo-Ukwu bronze artifacts unearthed by British archaeologist Thurstan Shaw in the 1960s and celebrated worldwide as being in a superlative class of its own among Africa’s ancient Bronze monuments. The Igbo Ukwu symbols were the key that led to the successful deciphering of first series the monoliths inscriptions. Our joint publication on the subject was a 500-page book titled The Gram Code of African Adam – Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa’s Lost Civilizations, Afa Publications, Abuja, 2005. Ajay Prabhakar’s contributions in that research earned him a Doctorate Degree from the Pilgrim’s University and Theological Seminary, North Carolina, USA while I myself was awarded a Professorship of African History and Philosophy by the same institution for my work in The Gram Code. For this present work on Igbo origins, however, we are launching a new contributor - Eddy Olumba, a graduate of Fine Arts from Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York and former Executive Assistant to the Governor of Imo State, whose sound knowledge of Igbo folklore and proverbs have proved very useful in our interpretations.
In the book The Gram Code, we illustrated the stage by stage procedures employed in our transcription and decoding of a number of the monoliths inscriptions. Most of the letters are written in mirror-image and could be read from left to right and from right to left. Facial features such as eyes, noses, mouths and ears are expressed in abstract forms which turned out to be letters. (See Plate 1) We had to isolate each symbol and break it down into its basic units before whole words began to emerge and with them sentences. In summary, our findings in the course of transcribing the inscriptions is that a number of the letters they bear have cognates in alphabetical systems as far flung as Egyptian hieroglyphics, Dravidian and Sumerian Cuneiform and Proto cuneiform. The mere presence of this corpus of ancient writings deep in the forests, swamps and villages of Ikom from an indeterminate period in the life of the local peoples, is ample attestation that the cradle of human civilization may well have begun in this part of the world. We have consistently shared our findings with members of the academic community since the early days of the project. In January, 2007 we were invited by TARA, the Trust for African Rock Art and CBAAC - the Center for Black and African Civilization to make presentations on the themes of “African Rock Art as Script and Means of Communication” and “African Rock Art as Historical Document” before a veteran but skeptical team of archaeologists, historians and anthropologists at the Methodology Workshop on Rock Art and the Pan-African Renaissance in Nairobi, Kenya. At the end of our two presentations the group constituted itself into committees to promote the study and research on African Rock Art as Script and historical documentation among other things!
All this becomes more intriguing when we consider the fact held by linguists that the original homeland of the Bantu sub-culture that colonized three-quarters of Black Africa is within the Benue/Ikom linguistic geographical zone. Clearly this belt of culture known to linguists and anthropologists as the Niger-Congo language family, within which falls the Bantu sub-group, has been a fulcrum and a vortex of cultural development leading to successive waves of human migration to various parts of the world from time immemorial.