The presence of African millets in India along with archaeological and linguistic evidence suggests that the Dravidians originated in Africa and carried these genes with them to India as a result of an overland migration. This view is supported by the fact that the Dravidian tribal groups are believed to be the most pristine Dravidians.
Given the fact that it is among the Dravidian tribal groups who share the most genomic material with Africans, is further confirmation of …African origin for Dravidian speakers in India. This is highly suggestive of an African and Dravidian relationship since the Tribal groups are believed to be among the original settlers of India. This genetic, biotic, linguistic, anthropological and archaeological evidence is congruent with a probable connection between these populations.
According to Wayne Chandler in “The Jewel and the Lotus”, archaeological research by German
scholars revealed that the skulls found in the lowest layers of the ruins of the oldest Indian cities
of Mohenjo Daro “are Hamitic”. 39 Our study as, published in The Lost Testament, reveals far-
reaching linguistic, cultural, ethnographic and mythological evidence between the Igbo and the
Dravidians. The connection is not limited to present-day people of Igbo extraction, but rather to
the so-called Proto- (or Mega) Igbo stock which includes Benin, Yoruba and other sub-ethnic
groups, all of who belong to the so-called Kwa linguistic family otherwise called Old Idu by the
Benin and Nkwo by the ancient Igbo (Kwa being a coinage by the European linguists for a more
or less Mega-Igbo linguistic phenomenon, which we have identified as the Igbo Nkwo pheno-
menon). The word Proto-Igbo is actually a misnomer because the Igbo genetic strain appears to
have existed from the time of Homo Erectus, Early Man and even before. Our research into
cognates shows that the Kwa/Nkwo language family was the mother of Canaanite and its child
languages Semitic, Sumerian and Akkadian. It is also the mother of Egyptian. This study is
delineated in They Lived Before Adam.40 Alternatively, the Kwa etymon is derived from the word
39 Chandler, “The Jewel in the Lotus”, African Presence in Early Asia, p. 87.
40 See also Acholonu, C.O., “Igbo language: A Former Global Lingua Franca and the Mother of Semitic Languages“, Paper Presented at the Igbo Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., April 8TH – 9TH, 2011