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Eden in Sumer on the Niger: Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Evidence of 450,000 Years of Atlantis, Eden, and Sumer in West Africa (African Digital Education Series Book 2)... By Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
Publication Date: January 13, 2014 "EDEN IN SUMER ON THE NIGER" provides archeological, linguistic, genetic, and inscribed evidence of the West African origin of mankind, language, religion and civilization. It provides multidisciplinary evidence of the actual geographical location in West Africa of the Garden of Eden, Atlantis and the original homeland of the Sumerian people before their migration to the "Middle East". By translating hitherto unknown pre-cuneiform inscriptions of the Sumerians, Catherine Acholonu and Sidney Davis have uncovered thousands of years of Africa's lost pre-history and evidences of the West African origins of the earliest Pharaohs and Kings of Egypt and Sumer such as Menes and Sargon the Great. This book provides answers to all lingering questions about the African Cavemen (Igbos/Esh/Adamas/Adites) original guardians of the human races, Who gave their genes for the creation of Homo Sapiens (Adam) and were the teachers in the First Age of the world.
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Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (26 October 1951 – 18 March 2014) was a Nigerian writer, researcher and former lecturer on African Cultural and Gender Studies. She was the former Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Arts and Culture, and foundation member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
Catherine Acholonu was born in Orlu to the family of Chief Lazarus Olumba. She attended secondary schools in Orlu before becoming the first African woman to gain a master's degree (1977) and a PhD (1987) from the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.[1] She taught at Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, commencing 1978. Acholonu was the author of over 16 books, many of which are used in secondary schools and universities in Nigeria, and in African Studies Departments in USA and Europe. Her works and projects enjoyed the collaboration and the support of United States Information Service (USIS), the British Council, the Rockefeller Foundation and in 1989 she was invited to tour educational institutions in USA, lecturing on her works under the United States International Visitor's Program. In 1990 Catherine Acholonu was honoured with the Fulbright Scholar in Residency award by the US government, during which she lectured at four colleges of the Westchester Consortium for International studies, NY, USA. Part of her work took her into the wider sphere of sustainable development. In 1986 she was the only Nigerian, and one of only two Africans, to participate in the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on "Women, Population and Sustainable Development: the Road to Rio, Cairo and Beijing”, which was organised jointly by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Division for the Advancement of Women, and the Division for Sustainable Development. This took place in the Dominican Republic, and focused on the mainstreaming of gender into the Plans of Action of the UN world conferences of Rio, Beijing and Cairo. Prof Acholonu holds several awards from home and abroad. From 1999 to 2002, she was the Special Adviser on Arts and Culture to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a post she resigned from to seek election, along with a number of other writers who felt their inclusion in Nigerian politics would for the good. However, she lost the contest for the Orlu senatorial district seat of Imo State, and drew attention to irregularities and rigging. She was recently appointed African Renaissance Ambassador by the African Renaissance Conference with headquarters in the Republic of Benin, and Nigeria's sole representative at the global Forum of Arts and Culture for the Implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNFAC). She was listed in the International Who's Who of World Leadership, USA; the African Women Writers' Who's Who; the Top 500 Women in Nigeria; Who's Who in Nigeria; and the International Authors and Writers Who's Who, published in Cambridge, UK. Acholonu was the Director of the Catherine Acholonu Research Center, Abuja (CARC). The center, based in Abuja, is pioneering research into Africa's pre-history, stone inscriptions, cave art, and linguistic analyses of ancient symbols and communication mediums from the continent. She argues that Nigerian rock-art inscriptions known as Ikom Monoliths prove that "Sub-Saharan African Blacks possessed an organized system of writing before 2000 B.C." and that she and her assistants are able to translate these.[2] In her book They Lived Before Adam: Prehistoric Origins of the Igbo The Never-Been-Ruled she argues that Igbo oral tradition is consistent with scientific research into the origins of humanity. Speaking at the Harlem Book Fair, Acholonu summarised the content of her argument in the book as follows:
quote: Our research includes the origin and meanings of symbols used in every religion and sacred literature all over the world. In these, we found that the Hebrew Bible, the Kabbalahs of the Hebrews and the Chinese, the Hindu Vedas and Ramayana, and the recently discovered Egyptian Christian Bible called the Nag Hammadi are of immense importance in revealing lost knowledge. Wherever we looked we found evidence confirming the claims by geneticists who have been conducting mitochondrial DNA research in four leading universities here in the USA that all mankind came from sub-Saharan Africa, that Eve and Adam were black Africans...Igbo oral traditions confirm the findings of geneticists, that by 208000BC – 208000 BC – human evolution was interrupted and Adam, a hybrid, was created through the process of genetic engineering. However, our findings reveal that the creation of Adam was a downward climb on the evolutionary ladder, because he lost his divine essence, he became divided, no longer whole, or wholesome. All over Africa and in ancient Egyptian reports, oral and written traditions maintain that homo erectus people were heavenly beings, and possessed mystical powers such as telepathy, levitation, bi-location, that their words could move rocks and mountains and change the course of rivers. Adam lost all that when his right brain was shut down by those who made him.
Acholonu died on 18 March 2014 at the age of 62 from a year-long renal failure.
Aims
To identify and give intellectual content and expression to the tangible and intangible heritage of Nigeria, the indispensable components, including threats /physical conditions of this heritage, and what contributions these heritage sites and monuments can make to the Dialogue among Civilizations through comparative cultural studies into African pre-history African culture and all relevant human endeavour using technology to the core.
Objectives
To protect and safeguard the tangible and intangible cultural heritage/ideas within the context of cultures of Sub- Saharan Africa and the world as a whole.
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Great find Lionness Professor Catherine Acholonu is a great African historian she use linguistic, archeology, history, culture to show that African people were the creators of Ancient Egyptian, Canaanite, Mesopotamian and Hindus valley civilizations. Professor Catherine Acholonu have proved that the Ogham script found in the British Isles, Iberia and North America come from the Igbo language. Catherine Acholonu showed the connection between the English language and Igbo.
I purchased two of her books The Gram Code and They Lived Before Adams, I am going to buy her new book Eden In Sumer In The Niger. I am happy this book is in the Amazon Kindle. It is very sad that Professor Acholonu died so soon at sixty years old, Historian Cheikh Anta Diop also die to soon. May Professor Catherine Acholonu rest in peace.
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From what I could read in the book there is no archaeological, linguistic or genetic research supporting her claim that the Niger Valley was Sumer.Granted the region around megaLake Chad was the homeland of the Sumerians and part of Atlantis it was not Sumer. The West African people referred to it as Maa.
The archaeology supports a recent introduction of people in the Niger Delta/Valley. These people entered the Niger Valley from the North and East. But there had been an Anu civilization in Nigeria as early as 18kya.
The authors subscribe to the Annunaki , space alien claim. To date no one has found the Sumerian text supporting the Annunaki claims of Sitchin.
Hyksos did not speak an Indo-European language.
It appears to me the authors just inserted the name Igbo in the narrative about Mesopotamia.I did not see where they compared Sumerian and Igbo.
Finally, the substratum language of Indo-Aryan languages is Dravidian.
The book appears to provide little if any support to Niger being Sumer.
Ogham is of African origin it was used by Black Europeans, but it is not related to Minoan writing. These scripts have different signs.
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The Maa languages are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually intelligible) spoken in parts of Kenya and Tanzania by more than a million speakers altogether. They are subdivided into North and South Maa. The Maa languages are related to the Lotuko languages spoken in South Sudan.
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The ruins of Ebla, near Idlib in northern Syria, were discovered and excavated in 1975. Ebla appears to have been an East Semitic speaking city-state founded around 3000 BC. At its zenith, from about 2500 to 2400 BC, it may have controlled an empire reaching north to Anatolia, east to Mesopotamia and south to the Red Sea. Ebla traded with the Mesopotamian states of Sumer Akkad and Assyria, as well as with peoples to the northwest. Gifts from Pharaohs, found during excavations, confirm Ebla's contact with Egypt. Scholars believe the language of Ebla was closely related to the fellow East Semitic Akkadian language of Mesopotamia and to be among the oldest known written languages.
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As I said before I did not see any linguistic evidence of a connection between Sumerian and Igbo. The major source for the identification of relationship between Igbo and Egyptian were people who contacted them on facebook.
To show a linguistic relationship you have to illustrate not just cognate terms but regular correspondence between words and grammar. I did not see this in the book.
The authors appear to discuss events that took place in Mesopotamia, supported by historical evidence as if it took place in West Africa. .
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"... "Garden of Eden, Atlantis and the original homeland of the Sumerian people before their migration to the "Middle East"..." (Summary)
"The authors appear to discuss events that took place in Mesopotamia, supported by historical evidence as if it took place in West Africa." (Dr. Winters)
Dr. Winters, do you have any evidence that the events (I presume you refer to Garden of Eden, Atlantis, Sumerian origin) occurred in Mesopotamia, rather than in the Black Sea region?
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quote:Originally posted by DD'eDeN: "... "Garden of Eden, Atlantis and the original homeland of the Sumerian people before their migration to the "Middle East"..." (Summary)
"The authors appear to discuss events that took place in Mesopotamia, supported by historical evidence as if it took place in West Africa." (Dr. Winters)
Dr. Winters, do you have any evidence that the events (I presume you refer to Garden of Eden, Atlantis, Sumerian origin) occurred in Mesopotamia, rather than in the Black Sea region?
The Sumerians originated in Saharan Africa. They adopted many aspects of the Anu civilization, including writing when they took control of Mesopotamia.
I know the Garden of Eden probably was not located in West Africa.
West Africa and Saharan Africa were part of Atlantis.
quote:Originally posted by DD'eDeN: "... "Garden of Eden, Atlantis and the original homeland of the Sumerian people before their migration to the "Middle East"..." (Summary)
"The authors appear to discuss events that took place in Mesopotamia, supported by historical evidence as if it took place in West Africa." (Dr. Winters)
Dr. Winters, do you have any evidence that the events (I presume you refer to Garden of Eden, Atlantis, Sumerian origin) occurred in Mesopotamia, rather than in the Black Sea region?
The Sumerians originated in Saharan Africa. They adopted many aspects of the Anu civilization, including writing when they took control of Mesopotamia.
I know the Garden of Eden probably was not located in West Africa.
West Africa and Saharan Africa were part of Atlantis.
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Clyde Winters, the gray area/trick word "probably", as you used when you wrote:
"I know the Garden of Eden probably was not located in West Africa"
shows the difficulty is refuting vast evidences replete with linguistic hints. Even if the author (Catherine Acholonu) did not dwell into deep linguistic technicalities as the late great Cheikh Anta Diop or the great Theophile Obenga, the author does present enough evidence of vast and comprehensive relationship between the Igbo and many ancient writings and languages found around the world. As basic as you may want to perceive presentation of these "linguistic" evidences cited by Dr. Acholonu, the sheer amount of these matching ancient words and phrasing, not to mention matching meaning, cannot be ignore or simply brushed aside.
99.x% of what Euro-Western elites (Whites and Jews) have pushed, taught and promoted about our history as original people of the Earth are nothing more than big fat lies, tons of little lies and every kind of other lies in-between. The forefathers of these elites suffered and many of their descendants still suffer from from various levels of what I call RPD (Racial Psychopathic Delusions) and also suffer from the psychotic obsession of wanting to artificially claim all of humanities earliest achievements at almost any cost when not challenged.
Maybe you should look into the works of Dr. Catherine Acholonu and along with other linguistic experts expand on her work. This already happening more coordinated brain power should yield even greater result.
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quote:Originally posted by DD'eDeN: "... "Garden of Eden, Atlantis and the original homeland of the Sumerian people before their migration to the "Middle East"..." (Summary)
"The authors appear to discuss events that took place in Mesopotamia, supported by historical evidence as if it took place in West Africa." (Dr. Winters)
Dr. Winters, do you have any evidence that the events (I presume you refer to Garden of Eden, Atlantis, Sumerian origin) occurred in Mesopotamia, rather than in the Black Sea region?
The Sumerians originated in Saharan Africa. They adopted many aspects of the Anu civilization, including writing when they took control of Mesopotamia.
I know the Garden of Eden probably was not located in West Africa.
West Africa and Saharan Africa were part of Atlantis.
.
Clyde Winters, the gray area/trick word "probably", as you used when you wrote:
"I know the Garden of Eden probably was not located in West Africa"
shows the difficulty is refuting vast evidences replete with linguistic hints. Even if the author (Catherine Acholonu) did not dwell into deep linguistic technicalities as the late great Cheikh Anta Diop or the great Theophile Obenga, the author does present enough evidence of vast and comprehensive relationship between the Igbo and many ancient writings and languages found around the world. As basic as you may want to perceive presentation of these "linguistic" evidences cited by Dr. Acholonu, the sheer amount of these matching ancient words and phrasing, not to mention matching meaning, cannot be ignore or simply brushed aside.
99.x% of what Euro-Western elites (Whites and Jews) have pushed, taught and promoted about our history as original people of the Earth are nothing more than big fat lies, tons of little lies and every kind of other lies in-between. The forefathers of these elites suffered and many of their descendants still suffer from from various levels of what I call RPD (Racial Psychopathic Delusions) and also suffer from the psychotic obsession of wanting to artificially claim all of humanities earliest achievements at almost any cost when not challenged.
Maybe you should look into the works of Dr. Catherine Acholonu and along with other linguistic experts expand on her work. This already happening more coordinated brain power should yield even greater result.
you make some interesting points, but I have already noted the origin of the Sumerians in Africa. They originated in what I call the Proto-Sahara. I announced this discovery back in 1985.See: http://olmec98.net/Fertile1.pdf
Since then I have reconstructed the Proto-Language of the Sumerians and other Africans which I call BaSuDralam (Black African Sumeriand Dravidian and Elamite).
. As you can see I have been knowing this truth since 1985, or for the past 20 years.
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quote:Originally posted by DD'eDeN: "... "Garden of Eden, Atlantis and the original homeland of the Sumerian people before their migration to the "Middle East"..." (Summary)
"The authors appear to discuss events that took place in Mesopotamia, supported by historical evidence as if it took place in West Africa." (Dr. Winters)
Dr. Winters, do you have any evidence that the events (I presume you refer to Garden of Eden, Atlantis, Sumerian origin) occurred in Mesopotamia, rather than in the Black Sea region?
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