One of the foremost tasks for
contemporary African centered scholars is
to provide an historical overview of the global African community. This
is a critical task that must be completed in its entirety. This
includes the history, culture and present condition of African people
both at home and abroad. If not for the primordial migrations of early
African people, humanity would have remained physically Africoid, and
the rest of the world outside of the African continent absent of human
life. This is our starting point as we continue on.
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Thailand Thailand has an extremely ancient but little known Black population. They are the forest dwelling people called Sekai, sometimes identified by the controversial term– "Negritos". These Black folks live in southern Thailand in the region straddling the border with northern Malaysia. |
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The Thailand
National Museum houses
some of the finest and most African looking Buddhist images in the
world. In particular, those images that can be traced back to the
cultural phase known as the Mon or Dvaravati cultural period when an
independent kingdom flourished in southern Thailand from the sixth to
the eleventh century. The Mon people, apparently highly Africoid,
practiced Theravada Buddhism, and it seems that the present Thais
adopted Buddhism from them. Indeed, more than ninety-five percent of
the Thais today are Theravada Buddhists.
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In 1883, the physical appearance of many Southeast Asian images of the Buddha were described by African-American scholar George Washington Williams thusly:
Before Williams, with regard to the Buddha appearance, Godfrey Higgins,(1) in 1833, argued that:
The Black community is
extremely minute now but all over
Thailand.
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(1)Though not
generally known in this day and age, Godfrey Higgins (1772-1833),
archeologist, politician, humanitarian, social reformer, and author,
was one of the most enlightened and educated men of early 19th century
England. He was a well-known iconoclast, rationalist, and admirer of
the Jews, who vehemently opposed any kind of persecution of this
ancient religious group. He wrote two oversized volumes, totaling
around 1600 pages of fine print, about the Jews' Indian origins. These
two volumes, entitled Anacalypsis, are extremely rare. The last
printing was done in 1965 by University Books, NY. It's a difficult
book to read because the author painstakingly proved the minutest of
details in his dissertation. Even good readers need several weeks to
finish it.
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NEGRITOS
(Span. for little Negroes ),
the name originally given by the Spaniards to the aborigines of the
Philippine Islands. The true Negritos are always of little stature (the
majority under 5 ft.), have rounded forms and their skull is
brachycephalic or subbrachycephalic, that is to say, it is relatively
short and broad and of little height. Their skin is dark brown or
black, sometimes somewhat yellowish, their hair woolly (scanty on face
and body), and they have the flat nose and thick lips and other
physical features of the Negro.
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The
aboriginal inhabitants of the
islands were the Negritos, or Pygmies, also called Aetas or Balugas;
they now constitute only a small
percentage of the total population. The
people of the Philippines are called Filipinos.
Their ancestors, who were of Malay stock, came from the
southeastern Asian mainland as well as from what is now Indonesia. From
the 10th century, contacts with China resulted in a group of mixed
Filipino-Chinese descent, who account for a minority of the population.
A small percentage of Chinese nationals also live in the country.
Spanish-Filipinos and Filipino-Americans may be distinguished by their
fairer complexion, taller stature, and aquiline nose structure. The
relatively small numbers of emigrants from the Indian subcontinent
added to the population's racial mixture.
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CHINA
"Our work shows that
modern humans first came
to southeast Asia and then moved later to northern China," said Li Jin,
a population geneticist at the University of Texas in Houston. "This
supports the idea that modern humans
originated in Africa."
Jin said the study is based on analysis of the gene patterns from 43 different ethnic groups in China and Asia. He said the technique gives an indication of how people moved and mixed over thousands of generations. Migration clues are carried in genetic patterns, called microsatellites, that change rapidly over time. By analyzing these changes and linking them to earlier genetic patterns, researchers are able to plot the migration of ancient humans.
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In China, an
Africoid presence is
visible from remote antiquity. The Shang, for example, China's first
dynasts,
are described as having "black and oily skin." The famous Chinese sage Lao-Tze was "black in complexion." http://www.trinicenter.com/FirstChinese.htm |
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The rise of
food production in China
spawned several great prehistoric movements of human populations, or of
cultural traits, or of both. One of the movements, within China itself,
created the political and cultural phenomenon of China as we know it
today
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So
overwhelming was this Chinese
steamroller, termed the Austronesian expansion, that the former peoples
of tropical Southeast
Asia have left behind few traces in the region's modern populations.
Just three relict groups of hunter- gatherers - the Semang Negritos of
the Malay Peninsula, the Adaman Islanders, and the Veddoid Negritos of
Sri Lank remain to suggest that tropical Southeast Asia's former
inhabitants may have been dark-skinned and curly-haired, like modern
New Guineans and unlike the light-skinned, straight-haired South
Chinese and the modern tropical Southeast Asians who are their
offshoots. Those relict Negritos of Southeast Asia may be the last
survivors of the source population from which Australia and New Guinea
highlands were colonized.
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Princess notes below before reading)
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India The Associated
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Exceptionally
valuable writings reflecting close relationships between
Africa and early India have existed for more than two thousand years.
In the first century B.C.E.(2),
for example, the famous Greek historian Diodorus Siculus penned that,
"From Ethiopia he (Osiris) passed through Arabia, bordering upon the
Red Sea as far as India.... He built many cities in India, one of which
he called Nysa, willing to have remembrance of that (Nysa) in Egypt,
where he was brought up."
The literary work of the early Christian writer Eusebius preserves the tradition that, "In the reign of Amenophis III [the mighty Dynasty XVIII Egyptian king] a body of Ethiopians migrated from the country about the Indus, and settled in the valley of the Nile." And still another document from ancient times, the Itinerarium Alexandri, says that "India, taken as a whole, beginning from the north and embracing what of it is subject to Persia, is a continuation of Egypt and the Ethiopians." (1) the world's oldest and largest news organization. (2) BCE stands for "Before the common era." It is expected to replace BC, which means "Before Christ." BC and BCE are also identical in value. Most theologians and religious historians believe that the approximate birth date of Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus) was in the fall, sometime between 4 and 7 BCE. The term "common" simply means that this is the most frequently used calendar system: the Gregorian Calendar. There are many religious calendars in existence, but each of these are normally in use in only a small geographic area of the world -- typically by followers of a single religion. |
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In Greater India, more than a thousand years before the foundations of Greece and Rome, proud and industrious Black men and women known as Dravidians erected a powerful civilization. We are referring here to the Indus Valley civilization- -India's earliest high-culture, with major cities spread out along the course of the Indus River. The Indus Valley civilization was at its height from about 2200 B.C.E. to 1700 B.C.E. This phase of its history is called the Harappan, the name being derived from Harappa, one of the earliest known Indus Valley cities. |
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In
1922, about 350 miles northeast of
Harappa, another large Indus city, Mohenjo-daro (the Mound of the Dead)
was identified. Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were apparently the chief
administrative centers of the Indus Valley complex, and since their
identification, several additional cities, including Chanhu-daro,
Kalibangan, Quetta and Lothal have been excavated.
The
decline and fall of the Indus Valley civilization has been linked to
several factors, the most important of which were the increasingly
frequent incursions of the White people known in history as
Aryans--violent Indo-European tribes initially from central Eurasia and
later Iran. Indeed, the name Iran means the "land of the Aryan." (we
will discuss the Aryan Nation in the next section)
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It
is
safe to say that when we speak of the Dravidians as a people we are
speaking of the living descendants of the Harappan people of the
ancient Indus Valley who were pushed into South India as the result of
the Aryan invasions. This is certainly consistent with Dravidian
traditions which recall flourishing cities that were either lost or
destroyed in antiquity. The term "Dravidian," however, encompasses both
an ethnic group and a linguistic group. The ethnic group is
characterized by straight to wavy hair textures, combined with Africoid
physical features. In reference to this Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop stated
that:
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"There are two well-defined Black races: one has
a black skin and woolly hair; the other also has black skin, often
exceptionally black, with straight hair, aquiline nose, thin lips, an
acute cheekbone angle. We find a prototype of this race in India: the
Dravidian. It is also known that certain Nubians likewise belong to the
same Negro type...Thus, it is inexact, anti-scientific, to do
anthropological research, encounter a Dravidian type, and then conclude
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From at least the third century C.E. three major Dravidian kingdoms existed in South India: the kingdoms of Pandya, Chera and Chola. Pandya was the southernmost Dravidian kingdom.  In 1288 and again in 1293 the Venetian traveler Marco Polo visited the Pandyan kingdom and left a vivid description of the land and its people. Polo exclaimed that: "The darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than the others who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and their idols black and their devils white as snow. For they say that God and all the saints are black and the devils are all white. That is why they portray them as I have described." |
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In 1981, in Bangalore, India Dravidian journalist V.T. Rajshekar published the first issue of Dalit Voice--the major English journal of the Black Untouchables. In a 1987 publication entitled the African Presence in Early Asia, Rajshekar stated that:
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 Princess Notes:
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/india.html
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