0 Comment Uli painting on the walls of ‘Odelegu’, Nibo, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by Northcote W. Thomas in 1911. Composite of NWT 3125a (MAA P.31342) and NWT 3127 (MAA P.31344). Uli is a celebrated traditional Igbo artform. It has been the subject of many studies, and has inspired subsequent generations of Nigerian artists,…

Pyramid Code, Part 1 Written by FERG SOMO Decoding ‘MR’ The Ancient Egyptian Word For A Pyramid Bantu Meanings: Funeral, Lamentation, Wailing The Place of Mourning, Weeping, Entombment A Burial Place, Sepulchre, Tomb MR = MARIRO → MALILO → MALIO → MARIO = MR Ancient Egyptian: MR Pyramid, Tomb This investigation consists of two parts.…

Origin of Black Written by Adriane Bogopane The Ancient Egyptian Origins of the Word Black There has been many a debate regarding the word “black” as it applies to the original people of the planet. Those who oppose the use of the word as an identifier of our people do so by advancing the argument…

Hutuapo, ‘Hotep’ WHAT IS THE MEANING AND HOW DOES IT RELATE TO OTHER CULTURES IN AFRICA? BANTU ROSETTA STONES FERG SOMO Ancient Egyptian: HTP:  Be at peace; be peaceful, to rest, to be happy, to become content, to repose Kiswahili-Bantu meaning: HUTUAPO ‘Always be in a state of peace wherever you are’ I hope this research into…

Bantu Rosetta Stones, Part 1 BANTU ROSETTA STONES FERG SOMO Researched by FERG SOMO Edited By Natasha Jones for Blackscribes Sound and meaning relationships between ancient Egyptian and proto-Bantu words NIOKA, NYOKA (Kiswahili-Bantu) Ancient Egyptian NIK, Serpent Proto-Bantu root -OKA, Snake, Serpent Kiswahili-Bantu, formative NI-OKASnake, Serpent Shona-Bantu NYOKA Snake, Serpent NUHA, NUKA (Tsonga-Bantu, other Bantu)…

The belief of a Supreme natural being has never been a doubt in African culture. Even before Europeans and Arabs came and introduced Christianity and Islam, Africans believed that there was a force greater than the universe that created everything on the Earth. In most African religions, the supreme God is a distant being no…

Abstract: This article argues that Black Consciousness as a philosophy transcends all political organisations and ideologies, because its architects were interested in rallying the whole country to fight apartheid regardless of political affiliation. The same consciousness that was raised in the 1960s could still influence political business today in democratic South Africa. To this end,…

by Chimurenga Chronicles This is the paper produced for a SASO Leadership Training Course in December 1971 by Bantu Stephen Biko. We have defined blacks as those who are by law or tradition politically, economically and socially discriminated against as a group in the South African society and identifying themselves as a unit in the…