The curse of Africa is its lack of a written language

.The Bible is viewed as a holy book, but all it really does is document the history of the Jews and their tribulations over the years at the hands of various oppressors culminating in the dreams of a messiah to take them to the promised land.

If we had a written language or transcribed the stories of the griots that Alex Haley in his Roots book had consulted to track down his ancestry, you would discover it would encapsulate the histories of our various people and trace bloodlines leading back to a long forgotten supreme ancestor, no different from Abraham who descended from Adam and you would trace your genealogy like the Bible does in linking Jesus all the way back to the line of kings, specifically to David in his case, similar to the bible.

Their native men and sorcerers foretold of the arrival of the various messiahs to take them to the promised land or to restore the kingdom of Judea. 

Jews had Prophets akin to native priests and griots and whole tribes, like the Levites, dedicated to servitude of God, like the Igbo’s their Osu caste and no different from the Aguleri clan, the spiritual priests of Ndigbo.

King David and Solomon rank high in Jewish mythology because they secured and expanded the kingdom of Judea. Jesus came and went fighting Romans, but he did not bring the dream of Israel for the Jews, that occurred many centuries later all the way in 1948. 

In between the Jewish people had dreamed of their promised land and suffered persecution and the holocaust and have Judaism as their religion, not Christianity.

Tribes need to find and consult their last remaining griots to record their oral recitations and study their native priests to recover their history and give their individual tribes a sense of their history and cultural and religious identity. 

In fact the book of judges is all about the history of famous Jewish medicine men and sorcerers through the years and every juju man in our respective tribes as well as some royal families come from a long line of medicine men and families of kings dating back through the years, the history has been lost in time unfortunately, but some of it is recoverable.

For instance, before the arrival of the Fulani, the Hausas had kings and queens like Queen Amina, but after Usman Dan Fodio that whole lineage was replaced by Fulani emirs, 

basically the Hausa royal lines may still endure, but they died out generally to the point where no one remembers where many of those ancient leaders were buried, you will find references to them in manuscripts by European and Arabic travelers who engaged them though.

Africa and its various nation state tribes need to focus and develop their native bibles and Koran’s to escape being brainwashed by western influences.

Nigerians are not Jews and do not descend from the ancestor of the Jewish people, we have our own stories of our ancestry and many of our saints, champions and leaders like King David who bled blood for our salvation and though most of the history has been lost, it should not be replaced by the mythology of foreign Gods or ancestors and philosophies.

By Terhemba Osuji

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