The Africans Who Wrote the Bible

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Summary: the beginning of my growth started with this book
Review: Alafia,

I recently purchased this book. I find it filled with amateur opinions and devoid of any true cultural value. Dr. Darkwah, it seems to me, suffers from a syndrome that affects many continental Afrikans and diasporic Afrikans. This syndrome is "how do I fit myself into the Holy Bible and validate myself within a European institution." First, the attempt was to make Jesus Black, but in light of sagacious researchers and impeccable truth-finders, we found the New Testament Jesus myth to be just that - a myth. Dr. Darkwah is from the Akan people of Ghana, however, outside of some linguistic reference, the Akan people and their culture are barely discussed. The author bases all of his opinions upon linguistic similiarities, but such foundations provide very little in making authentic connections. One can, if willing, show that any group of people are related by finding the right words to illustrate relationship, i.e. Germanic Goths and Yoruba people. Even the data, Dr. Darkwah submits for linguistic grouping is inaccurate and at worse, misleading. Afrikans are the oldest branch of humanity, however, in his book, Dr. Darkwah gives a chart showing many Afrikan languages were descended from a language group known to have been younger, by mainstream scholars and radical-minded Afrikans. It appeared to yours truly that Dr. Darkwah was trying to hard to give Afrikans a glorious past. Do not reinvent the wheel! Our ancestors, whether they have been Akan, Yoruba, Ewe, Hausa, Songhai, Bakongo or some other Afrikan group, already have a glorious past. They have a past that does not need to be bolstered by imagined hard to fit fantasies. Dr. Darkwah chooses to find a people who only goes back 6,000 years ago and trys to make them the ancestral stock of a group of Afrikans, whose lineage shatters the 6000 by millenia. It is a disgrace and a disservice to Afrikan people worldwide. The most frightful thing is his book gets into the hand of some well-financed whacko to support or even start a neo ideology - Jews were the founders of the Akan states, Oyo Empire or even Old Ghana, itself. Basically, read, Jews were the ORIGINATORS OF AFRIKAN CIVILIZATION! ... Read the book for yourself and I bet, if you are a astute Afrikan, you will cringe, too. Not because of the controversial fact, but because of the blatant debasement of Afrikan people, the honorific position of Jewish tradition and names and the historical/anthropological inconsistencies. I refer books like: "Gerald Massey's Lectures", "Of Water and Spirit" by Malidoma Some, "Sacred Woman" by Queen Afua, and any book on Ifa.

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Summary: Excellent work!!!
Review: Excellent work!!!
Many of our brothers and sisters may be bothered by the style. As an African from royal family I know that the repetition of the same thing over and over was and still remains a device to covey the information and make sure that the story doesn't change from one repetition to the other.
We praise you brother!!!
You have given in your book an excellent reason to African not to loose their native languages. I call upon God and our ancestors to bless you with long life and good health because they have already blessed you with intelligence and wit. Bravo!!!

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Summary: Shepherdboy needs more African history.
Review: shepherdboy1 is full of "it" and obviously NOT an African or Akan. He/she is far to self-loathing to be such. The author's very much informing and eyeopening research seems alien to shepherd boy because NO ONE ELSE HAS THE NERVE OR COURAGE to write the truth!!! Face it shepherdboy and give credit where credit is due to the author and to African/Akan/African-American people the world over. By the way, did you notice the author has a PHD in this research field? Or does that matter to you. I am far more likely to believe what someone with a PHD has to say as opposed to someone with a NON-PHD.

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Summary: Shepherdboy needs more African history.
Review: shepherdboy1 is full of "it" and obviously NOT an African or Akan. He/she is far to self-loathing to be such. The author's very much informing and eyeopening research seems alien to shepherd boy because NO ONE ELSE HAS THE NERVE OR COURAGE to write the truth!!! Face it shepherdboy and give credit where credit is due to the author and to African/Akan/African-American people the world over. By the way, did you notice the author has a PHD in this research field? Or does that matter to you. I am far more likely to believe what someone with a PHD has to say as opposed to someone with a NON-PHD.

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Summary: Good attempt but unclear logic and reseach
Review: This book attempts to do a critical revision of traditional viewpoints on how the Old Testament came into being. The author obviously, is very concerned about the marginal respect that Africans have received in the development of the Biblical narratives as well as the development of the Judeo-christian world. These objectives appear to be the major concerns engaging the work of the author. I think the major flaw of the book is that, it makes bold assumptions not rooted in any verifiable and rigorous research.
To think that the author's native Akan language is the basis for interpreting the thoughts and philosophy of the Old Testament is rather shallow and without depth.
As an African and an Akan myself, I am overwhelmed by the some of the correlations of the author's logic. How can anyone use similar sounding words in the Akan language to define world history and explain wide ranging civilisations as that of Egypt, Middle East, Europe and Asia -to the extent of even rooting the Japanese monarchy within an Akan culture? I see that as a gross over-stretching of an inconclusive hypothesis. Such over-stretched logic is what Europe used to bastardise our African culture and self-understanding. We must not allow the pain of our alienation to spawn within us the reactionary desire to get even at the expense of respect for all races and tolerance of others.
Much as I share the author's concerns for righting the centuries-old mischaracterisation of Africa, I do not subscribe to the theory supporting his revisionism.

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Summary: Good attempt but unclear logic and reseach
Review: This book attempts to do a critical revision of traditional viewpoints on how the Old Testament came into being. The author obviously, is very concerned about the marginal respect that Africans have received in the development of the Biblical narratives as well as the development of the Judeo-christian world. These objectives appear to be the major concerns engaging the work of the author. I think the major flaw of the book is that, it makes bold assumptions not rooted in any verifiable and rigorous research.
To think that the author's native Akan language is the basis for interpreting the thoughts and philosophy of the Old Testament is rather shallow and without depth.
As an African and an Akan myself, I am overwhelmed by the some of the correlations of the author's logic. How can anyone use similar sounding words in the Akan language to define world history and explain wide ranging civilisations as that of Egypt, Middle East, Europe and Asia -to the extent of even rooting the Japanese monarchy within an Akan culture? I see that as a gross over-stretching of an inconclusive hypothesis. Such over-stretched logic is what Europe used to bastardise our African culture and self-understanding. We must not allow the pain of our alienation to spawn within us the reactionary desire to get even at the expense of respect for all races and tolerance of others.
Much as I share the author's concerns for righting the centuries-old mischaracterisation of Africa, I do not subscribe to the theory supporting his revisionism.

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Summary: The African Who Wrote the Bible
Review: This book gets four stars only because it was not well organized when written. It has too much redundancy in the beginning chapters and the author places too much emotion in his explanations. Otherwise, the book is interesting.

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Summary: Of course Africans wrote the Bible!
Review: This book is long overdue and very important in setting one small piece of the historical record straight. I recommend it highly along with others, such as They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima. The reason why ancient history has traditionally been so "mysterious," incomplete and fairly unintelligible is because it has been based primarily upon lies formulated by racists passing themselves off as scholars, who refused to acknowledge that Africans even had a history, much less one as glorious and far-reaching as it is. Why would anyone other than Africans have written the Bible? Egypt, Ethiopia, and Kush, some of the most talked-about civilizations within the pages of the Bible ARE in AFRICA!! Israel and the other civilizations of this ancient work are immediately adjacent. In ancient times, many of the inhabitans of Israel, Babylon and other "Middle Eastern" lands mentioned in the Bible were ethnic Africans. The artifacts they left speak for themselves. To the Reader from Boston: take your logical pick -- who would most likely have written the Bible? The people living in the places featured in it, or people living thousands of miles away in China? If you insist upon China, why would the Chinese write about the Africans, instead of writing about their own lands and people? Further, based on your criticism of this one author, why would that give you the logical basis upon which to draw any conclusions whatsoever about the intellectual capacity of all Africans? I think that's called generalizing, and it's the mark of someone who must define people based on color because they lack the genuine intellectual ability to assess and appreciate human beings as individuals.

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Summary: Here Are the Puzzle Pieces
Review: This is a great book but there are things you need to know.
This book is written based upon the African language similarities with those of present-day Africa, ancient Africa and words found within the bible. With that said, there are sitings noted from various African nations throughout West Africa.

The thing that should be noted is that the author clearly states that the Jewish people are not the original Jews. The author is under the opinion that the original Jewish people were African people who left probably during the so-called Exodus. The present day Jewish people as stated within the book still carry African names. If I read this correctl, that is from cover to cover without skipping pages, this is what the author stated within the book.

This is an excellent literary work for all African descendants because it does what so many have feared; connects present and traditional Africa to the ancient Africans and to the Africans Who Wrote the Bible.