Under this scenario, Africans didn't explore, weren't curious, didn't set sail, never tried to find out what was it like past the horizon, or over that hill, sea or river. Just sat there in the dirt waiting to be discovered by somehow independently evolved Europeans.

Even those who say, well, yes, Mankind may have evolved in Africa but they didn't "get smart" or anything until they got to Asia, will find their attempts to deny the civilized past of African-descended humanity shot down with precision.

In the course of these articles, I will make my case, using information gleaned from my travels to Northeast Africa (Egypt/Kemet) and liberal use of the material of others.

BLACK FOLKS ALL OVER THE PLACE

The origins of Humankind have been proven to be in south-central Africa, although some die-hards continue their futile quest to assert that the human race originated in Asia and spread from there. Fossil and any other evidence continues to elude them, however.

Researchers like Dr. Louis Leakey and his family along with African researchers continue their ground-breaking (and earth shattering) discoveries of ancient fossils and artifacts that show the oldest remains of human habitation were in the African continent.

But people get bored staying in one place. They also have falling outs with each other. Hunter-Gatherers do okay until the game gets onto you and your ways of hunting, your sounds, and your scent. They move away, at least the smart ones do. Then you have to move after them.

Plus people are just curious, and like to be nosy. They start to wonder: what's over that range of hills over there? That river, or lake? The various tribes went from coast to coast, which in Africa would take a long, long, time. Maps don't show the true scale of it, you'll need a globe.

But they went North, and bumped into the Mediterranean and Arabian coastlines. After that it was time to learn how to make some real ocean-faring boats. Because of an estimated 600,000 year head start African explorers populated the world, with the possible exception of the North American landmass.

Even here in the Americas there are some archeological finds in North, Central and South America that curiously show remains that are older than settlements the Asian Bering Strait crossovers left on their sojourn, and the benchmark Clovis, New Mexico settlements. There are complementary artifacts and stories of trade among tribes in Africa with faraway people to the West, across the sea.

Here in Wisconsin in Kenosha County of Southeastern part of the state about 45 miles north of Chicago, there are intriguing artifacts and settlement remnants that may be pre-Clovis, which would truly be a scientific bombshell. It is known that part of Wisconsin wasn't covered by ice in the last ice Age, and explorers may have followed along a cleft that existed all the way to the Pacific coast, speeding their progress. Research continues, and I may have a future report as the site is only 40 miles away from me.

Archeological evidence, linguistic studies, deciphered documents such as the Dead Sea and Nag Hamadi Scrolls, ancient trade routes, and recent genetic DNA discoveries tend to bear out even some of the more fantastic claims of Africentrists who for years were made to sound like kooks for even suggesting that African explorers may have sailed to the Americas.

A recent theory by a Nashville researcher has been backed up by astronomical and computer modeling. The maverick researcher and other teams of scientists contend that the Sphinx, which is noticeably eroded differently from the surrounding pyramids and structures was actually built first, and that the later Egyptians considered it holy and honorable ground, building respectfully behind it.

It is known that the underlying core of the Sphinx was a giant rock or megalith that was easier carved into something than moved or dismantled. They contend that it was originally a gigantic carved lion which became disfigured over time by rain, and may even date back to 16,000 to 20,000 years.

The problem this results is that this area has been desert for millennia, although it wasn't always so. Besides, where would Northeast Africa have gotten such rain? Before the last Ice Age ended in Europe, the theorists claim, or 16,000 to 20,000 years BCE, or Before the Common Era.

Retreating and melting mile-high glaciers on the European landmass to the North caused stone-eroding torrential rainfall on the North African landscape of Kemet, or Egypt, for decades, perhaps hundreds of years. This may also have inspired the "Great Flood" folklore myths common to many cultures.

A Pharaoh, called "Cephren" by the Greeks, later carved his features onto the now-disfigured lion's head and his pyramid, (the middle one with the notches out of it) was placed behind it. Clueless (or worse, obfuscating) Egyptologists continue to state that the Sphinx was "built to guard the pyramids" (!?!)

Cephren's pronounced African nose was later blasted off the Sphinx's face by cannon fire, some say by Napoleon's invading army, others by Turkish troops. (This demolition of Black imagery seemed to be a thing among Europeans; in the Vatican museum we noticed even small handheld figurines and statuettes had disfigured noses, like they just hated to see the Black visage of their ancient parents staring at them).

HOW'D THEY GET UP THERE?

There are ancient fossils that are Africoid in bone structure and with DNA testing that confirms it. But how did they get up to Europe in the first place?

One theory is that exploring Africans went west and crossed on foot past the Egyptian Sinai peninsula and up through what is now southern Russia, or Georgia. This was the land called Colchis "at the ends of the Earth" in the ancient tale made into the most excellent film "Jason and the Argonauts." (The Golden Fleece legend even has a basis in scientific fact, but will be left for another article).

When the Ice age later descended upon them, mile-high walls of ice glaciers closed them in, and over several millennia forced their evolution in another direction and created a new race perfectly adapted for their colder, harsher environment.

EUROPE'S "TWO CRADLE" THEORY

An other, alternate route was the closest point between North Africa and Europe at the Strait of Gibraltar across from present day Morocco and Spain, where the land effects across the water would have been visible and beckoning to them, until blocked from going Northwest by colder weather and the imposing mountains ranges of the Alps and Pyrennees.

Hooking left, they flowed through France, Spain, and up to the British Isles into Ireland until they met the much colder expanses of the North Atlantic which was water they couldn't easily cross. In both or either cases, they chilled, literally. The two theories combined is known as the "Two Cradle Theory" of Europe advanced by the late African researcher Cheikh Anton Diop

The people of the sunnier, warmer and lush Southlands evolved philosophies of Religion and Morality that emphasized the elevation of Feminine Fertility, family cohesiveness, and communal cooperation.

Their philosophies were reflected in their sayings. "It takes a village to raise a child," and "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." When some complainer in tribal council was forever finding fault or putting forth nonsensical ideas, the saying evolved "Someone is always trying to drown a fish."

NORTH FINALLY MEETS SOUTH

When those from the North came back down to their ancestral homeland there was inevitable trading of goods, romantic liaisons, and some conflict that yielded a blending of the two, as we've seen among African Descended and the Native Americans, and lately with Latinos and resettled Asians. There were no doubt many Whites then as now, who admired the ways of the Southlanders and sought to emulate them. Then there is the Jungle Fever Factor, where the very foreign-ness of The Other would have been an attraction in itself. Tribal taboos and prohibitions would have only intensified the ancient Romeo and Juliet attractions.

Likewise, there would be some Africans who like Chief Shaka Zulu much later found the Northern way of land and/or material accumulation much to their liking, and learned that through organized warfare they could have more than any other man in their village. (Interestingly, there may be preserved folklore records of African explorers who went into Europe and became legends, which is where the reports of the "Brownies" of the British isles may have come from, and the numerous Black Madonnas spread all through Europe from Spain to Russia).

These differing, conflicting thoughts of course would have been present in any race, but when the Northerners driven by their conquering cultural philosophy, and eager to escape the bare windy and hostile plains of Europe later descended onto the South in force, it was no contest for people who had a prevailing philosophy akin to "The Stranger is only a Friend you haven't met."

For further research a bit off the areas presently being treated here, read Prof. Runoko Rashidi's works about the heartbreaking invasion of the peaceful Indus Valley civilization in India by the more warlike tribal people who lived on the other side of the Caucasus Mountains that divide Asia from Europe. Hence, their name has become known as "Caucasians." The Great Wall was built to keep them and the violent roaming Asiatic tribes with whom they interbred from overrunning China. (It didn't work; they went around it to the south).

Later, the Native Americans, Aborigines in Australia, Chinese and others were to fall before the might of these transformed Africans who evolved into a cruel conquering engine of destruction, especially after the Industrial Age, but who still nevertheless still feel the need to be close to their ancestral brothers and sisters.

Tanning in the sun they were too long denied, as if they were trying to get their skin back to normal; depilitating their excessive body hair; White women injecting their lips to make them fuller; the forbidden fruit of Interracial Love; and the latest attempts to imitate and transform "World Music" into their own.

All the while at the same time, confusedly teaching and preaching that White "racial purity" and Male Supremacy is the best expression of humanity on the planet. The embarrassing melanin deposits, or "freckles," red and kinky hair, and "strawberry blooms" or patches on their skin point back to their genetic heritage.

This is why it is pertinent to ask during African American History month: where did white people come from? This sets the stage for the next Millennium, and the prospects for peaceful cooperation explored next.

NEXT FROM BROTHA SCIENCE: More of "Where did white people come from?" and the future implications for Black people in the next Millennium. What about the Human Genome Project, and the AIDS conspiracy? What is the future for peaceful living between the races? Will World War III be a Race War, as many believe?

For Further Study:

Author Runoko Rashidi's works about the Indus Valley civilization are available on his website. He has lately been enthralled by the Pacific migration and mythology of the Australian Aborigines and their persistent insistence that they left there to populate the world. Some DNA research may buttress their case. --kjw

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