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African artwork similar to those pictured here date to over 4,000 years in West Africa and over 30,000 years in the West Africa-Sahara region. In fact, some of this artwork (like those below) are being plundered and sold to art dealers in Eruope and elsewhere. (See Prehistoric/Ancient Mali, Niger, Sahara Art being traded http://www.bbcnews.com )

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Nubianem7 · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: Ancient Nigerian Oni (King)

One can clearly see that the ancient and prehistoric costumes of Nigerians ( 10,000 BC to 700 AD) WAS QUITE SOPHISTICATED AND UNLIKE SOME OF WHAT IS WORN TODAY.

The Oni is also holding a horn in one hand and a fish in another. Similar carvings by African people who establish or contributed to culture in San Agustin, Colombia and Olmec Mexico also show people with Africoid features holding simiar ritual objects.

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BRONZE HEAD OF NIGERIAN ONI - A CONTINUATION OF THE ANCIENT NOK-WAGADU SCULPTURE TRADITION

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Nigeria HAS ITS OWN VERSION OF THE MASS CREATION OF HUNDREDS OF STATUES USED TO PLACE IN THE TOMB OF A GREAT EMPEROR (AS WAS DONE BY THE CHINESE EMPEROR, CHIN).

The Nigerian scupltures made of terracotta date to about 3000 BC to 1000 BC and include hundreds of carvings of stone and clay of a variety of different people, animals, and other objects.

This man wearing a robe and tassle is one of the many such carvings dating back over 3000 years, during the Nok-Wagadu period.

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This carving is of a Phonecian Canaanaite Negro who may be one of the many Phonecians who traded with West Africa between 600 BC to 400 AD.

Phonecians are descendents of Canaan. They were Negroid and originally settled in the region between Sinai to Turkey. About 650 B.C. Nikau sent a group of Phoncians to trade with the Nok-Wagadu people ( see the book, "Susu Economics," and 'A History of the African-Olmecs," http://www.authorhouse.com 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, Indiana 47403 USA.

In the year 450 BC, Hanno, a Carthaginian also sent traders to WEST AFRICA to get gold from the Africans in exchange for salt.

The original Phonecians WERE NOT 'SEMITES' and were Negro descendants of Canaan and masters of the oceans. They sailed the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Oceans. They also reached as far as China, Japan and Korea.

Phonecians were traders of purple cloth. Purple in the ancient African world - and still today - is considered to be a sacred color used for ceremonial purposes and by people of great rank.

Many customs from West Africa show influence from Africans who once lived in the region between Egypt to Turkey (the Levant). One of these customs is the recognition of phallic symbols -- of which there is a filed of such poles in Nigeria dating to ancient times.

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Bronze casting in West Africa dates to thousands of years. In fact, bronze jewelry and realistic castings were very common in West Africa in ancient times because by 2800 BC, iron was being used for weapons and other uses. This led to the use of bronze for decorative and other purposes.

Between 3000 BC to 1500 AD, bronze utencils, jewelry and heads were being made in the South-Western Sahara ( the Zingh Empire) and West Africa. This bronze-working tradition flowered during the Middle Ages in the Benin Kingdom and in Igbo-Ikwu and Oyo.

THE BRONZE HEADS PICTURED REPRESENT WEST AFRICAN KINGS

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These bronze and terracotta artworks show a striking similarity to such works created out of stone and terracotta in Olmec (Mandinga-Shi) Mexico. For example, this head with 'coral' covering on the helmet, is strikingly similar to the same pattern found in a collosal Olmec head of basalt rock.

see http://originalblackcivilizationsofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com

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Building of magnificent temples, pyramids, cities occurred in the region from the Central Sahara all the way to Cameroon and from Dafur/Sudan in the East to Cape Verde in the West.

There were and still are four major types of architecture in the ancient Zingh Empire and later Nok-Wagadu, Ghana, Forest Kingdoms region of Africa.

These are: Stone and clay-brick buildings in the Sahara.

Stone and mud-brick buildings dating to about 2000 BC in ancient Kukia and Kumbi Seleh (ancient Ghana)
Some of these were expertly fortified and had moats, traps and other means of defense. The Benin Wall, the old cities of Benin and cities such as Gao, Timbuktu, Jenne are examples.

Fortified and grouped Mud/Clay buildings in West Africa IDENTICAL TO BUILDINGS FOUND IN NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA AND SUCH PLACES.
In places like Kano, Nigeria and in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad -- these buildings are expertly made and sometimes decorated with elaborate motifs. Many are grouped in sets of about four or more buildings, with strong and efficient systems of defense like castles.

Round clay and stone buildings, with clay ( strong enough to stand and to stop fires as well as maintain coolness during the day) and tatched roofs and arranged in fortified (with traps, spikes, barriers, and places to fire arrows at invading enemies) family compounds.

West Africa/SE Sahara also has a long tradition of PYRAMID BUILDING of clay and mudbrick. Royal tombs dating to preChristian times still exist along the Niger River. These 'mounds' were built in the shape of pyramids and were made of mud-brick and clay.

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Two of the most advanced and ancient civilizations of the Americas were the Afro-Olmecs of Mexico and the Wa$hitaw Empire of the Mississippi/Louisiana Region of the US.

The origins of the Afro-Olmecs ( correctly known as the Mandinga-Shi) is the region of Nigeria, Niger, Senegal and generally West Africa and the South-East Sahara.

The Washitaw Empire were also another ancient Black African civilization of the Americas. They were known as the Mound Builders and 'Black Giants' of the Mississippi.

The Afro-Olmecs are said to have been founded by Emperor Meci. According to the Popul Vuh, the Quiche Maya Book, Meci sailed from Africa with 8 ships filled with Africans and provisions. He made many trips after the first trip and built a ceremonial and cultral center in Vera Cruz.

Meci is said to have arrived in Mexico in 3113 B.C.

Olmec civilization and language as well as religion and astronomy is connected to West Africa even more than Egypt or Cush. However, African groups like the Merci of Ethiopia and the Dinka and Nuer have cultural traits identical to the ancient Olmes (shown in pictures here) http://originalblackcivilizationsofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com

The language of the Afro-Olmecs was Mandinga and they used an alphabet that is still used in West Africa today. That alphabet is called Vai or Mandinga and the form used by the Afro-Olmecs was the more 'formative' and ancient style.

The Afro-Olmecs also recognized the Venus Planetary system in the same way that the Ono and Bambara of West Africa do today. The Bambara were the ancient ship-builders and sea (inland Sahara lake) traders of the prehistoric world. Boats made of papyrus, sewn plank and dugout canoe were used by the ancient Africans of the 'wet' Sahara. In fact the oldest boat found in Africa was a dugout dated to be about 10,000 years old.

THE BLACK WASHITAW

The Black Washitaw Nation of the Mississippi Valley were the ancient civilization of the Americas. The Washitaw who are about 3 million of the 45 million African-Americans today, once owned about 1,000,000 square miles and were among the first victims of slavery (along with aboriginal Africans in South America) long before slaves were being imported from Africa. In fact, according to some sources, African and 'red' American Indian slaves were first taken in the US/Americas and shipped to Europe, Barbadose-South America and places like Calabar, Nigeria by people like the Portugese.

The Black Washitaw Nation fought to regain their lands in 1991 and won their case. However out of nearly 1,000,000 square miles, they only got back about 65,000 square acres. ( See http://www.hotep.org 'We Are the Washitaw," by Umar Bey )

The Washitaw were the master MOUND AND PYRAMID BUILDERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. They established towns and settlements in the Gulf and Mississippi Valley thousands of years before Columbus. They were also sea travellers and merchants as well as ship-builders.

See, "A History of the African-Olmecs: Black Civilizations of America From Prehistoric Times to the Present Era," pub. by AuthorHouse.com http://www.authorhouse.com 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, Indiana, 47403 USA.

See also http://blackmalepower.proboards106.com

and 'ANCIENT AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS OF AMERICA,' http://www.raceandhistory.com

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The history of Black Males in America did not begin with slavery -- it began over 30,000 years ago, when African males and their families sailed from the Sahara and West Africa, across the Atlantic and landed in Brazil ( see 'Luiza Skulls" http://www.nationalgeographic.com )

About 3113 B.C., a God-King named Meci arrived in the Americas and established a strong kingdom in Meso-America.

His laid the foundation for what became Olmec, Maya and Aztec civilization in Mexico.

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