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Around 4kya a megalithic culture expanded from Africa to the Islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.The Yonaguni structure may be one of the pyramids they left in the area.
The people who carried this culture lived in Nubia. They probably belonged to the C-Group. These people were called Kushites. These Kushites mainly spoke Niger-Congo languages.
Tonga step pyramid
First, the Fijians claim they came from Africa. We know a megalithic culture expanded from Africa into the Indian/Pacific Ocean areas after 2000 BC.
Pyramid of Mauritius
Secondly, African place names are found in the Pacific and correspondences between lexical items.
Common Terms:
English Manding Melanesian Polynesian
arrow bye,bya fana,pane fana,pana
Father baba babi papa
Man tye ta taga-ta
head ku tequ-qa tuku-noa
pot daga taga taga
vase bara pora,bora bora-bora
fish yege ige, ika ika
ox, cattle konga,gunga kede kuda
In addition, there is a genetic relationship that exist between the Japanese and Mande languages.
The ancient Austronesians cultivated rice, millet, yams and sugarcane. (Bellwood 1990, p.92)
It would appear that the Polynesians learned agriculture from the Manding as illustrated below:
Polynesian English Manding
*talun fallow, land daa
*tanem to plant, sow daa
*suluq torch, jet of flame suu
*kuDen cooking pot,bowl ku
This evidence provides linguistic and anthropological support for the Fiji tradition and the expansion of a African megalithic culture across the Pacific 4-5kya. It is wrong that you guys deny a people history just because your European masters to do not present evidence in support of a native tradition.
If you keep waiting for Europeans to verify our history you will have a long wait.
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