bequeathed to them. Ndi Igbo should be aware that Igbo traditional heritage is world heritage, because world civilization started in Igbo land. As such they should prepare themselves for the a new surge of interest in Igbo language and culture that will see Igbo citizens at home and abroad around the world being called upon to teach and share aspects of this heritage (tangible and intangible) with other citizens of the world. This is without prejudice to the fact that everything we have so far studied suggests that Igbo civilization was actually programmed for extinction by the colonists. Many do not know that the colonialists found ten step-pyramids, each the size of a single storey building in Abaja, Nsude in Nsukka region of Igbo land, but made sure that they were not entered into any existing official records, and that they were subsequently destroyed and forgotten. The discovery of these step-pyramids (plate 3) adds to our pile of proofs that original Egypt was ancient Nigeria, part of which was known as Biafra’ in ancient maps of the world, and Igbo Ukwu was its sacred capital. ‘Median Colonial linguists have posited that the Igbo, along with the Yoruba, Igala, Ashanti, Idoma, Ijaw, Edo and a host of other West African tribes, are under the Proto-Kwa linguistic family group, which means that it was their collective ancestors that founded the ancient Kushite civilization, for Kwa is short for Akwa in Akwa Nshi. Professor Adiele Afigbo insisted that Kwa was a Mega Igbo civilization. We think our work has amply demonstrated that he was right. Afigbo’s thesis is that the Mega Igbo phenomenon was the cultural hub (navel) of West African civilizations. We cannot agree more because after all, as the Median of ancient world maps, Biafra was the of the Earth’! The Bantu tribes who migrated from ancient Nigeria, two millennia ago, we ‘Navel also from the Kwa linguistic and cultural family group. The fact that the Bantu tribes, which actually make up three fourths of Sub-Saharan Africa, were also of ancient Nigerian cultural,
bequeathed to them. Ndi Igbo should be aware that Igbo traditional heritage is world heritage, because world civilization started in Igbo land. As such they should prepare themselves for the a new surge of interest in Igbo language and culture that will see Igbo citizens at home and abroad around the world being called upon to teach and share aspects of this heritage (tangible and intangible) with other citizens of the world. This is without prejudice to the fact that everything we have so far studied suggests that Igbo civilization was actually programmed for extinction by the colonists. Many do not know that the colonialists found ten step-pyramids, each the size of a single storey building in Abaja, Nsude in Nsukka region of Igbo land, but made sure that they were not entered into any existing official records, and that they were subsequently destroyed and forgotten. The discovery of these step-pyramids (plate 3) adds to our pile of proofs that original Egypt was ancient Nigeria, part of which was known as ‘Median Biafra’ in ancient maps of the world, and Igbo Ukwu was its sacred capital. Colonial linguists have posited that the Igbo, along with the Yoruba, Igala, Ashanti, Idoma, Ijaw, Edo and a host of other West African tribes, are under the Proto-Kwa linguistic family group, which means that it was their collective ancestors that founded the ancient Kushite civilization, for Kwa is short for Akwa in Akwa Nshi. Professor Adiele Afigbo insisted that Kwa was a Mega Igbo civilization. We think our work has amply demonstrated that he was right. Afigbo’s thesis is that the Mega Igbo phenomenon was the cultural hub (navel) of West African civilizations. We cannot agree more because after all, as the Median of ancient world maps, Biafra was the ‘Navel of the Earth’! The Bantu tribes who migrated from ancient Nigeria, two millennia ago, we also from the Kwa linguistic and cultural family group. The fact that the Bantu tribes, which actually make up three fourths of Sub-Saharan Africa, were also of ancient Nigerian cultural,
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