Things Concerning The Black People In The World

The First Romans

Were Black People Called

The Etruscans [Read Full History

The fight to reclaim the pride and heritage of the Black man has been a tedious, but yet fulfilling battle. After hundreds of years of lies told about the Black man, nature has made it possible that we are at a great reawakening and that facts about ancient Black civilizations are exposed daily.

The knowledge which we have gathered on the history of Black civilizations has set the Black race on a new path – a path to pride and self-awareness. Which African school would have ever thought Africans this secretes? None actually. That Is because, even till date, the curriculum of many African schools is decided by European governments.

The first humans on earth were black people. And since that is so and has been proven by historians, scientists, and archeologists, it is safe to agree that Black people dominated many parts of Europe for thousands and hundreds of years, before the European (Caucasians) stock moved in.

Italy, which is known for housing Rome, was originally inhabited by Black people, who are referred to as Etruscans.

Legends say they were descendants of refugees from the fallen city of Troy, led by the swarthy (dark-skinned) prince Aeneas after the city fell to the Greeks.  Whether this legend is true or not, the pieces of evidence below clearly point that Rome was first owned by Blacks.

The statues and art of the Etruscans revealed them to be Africans – black people. History shows that they were a sensual and creative people. The city of Rome was originally known as Ra Ouma which means a ” place protected by Ra “.

This worship of Ra, undoubtedly by the Etruscans, means that they most likely had a spiritual, physical and cultural link to Kemet (kmt), ancient Egypt or Phoenicia. In archeology, findings show that two African peoples, the Sicani, and the Liburni occupied ancient Italy.

The Roman writer Virgil revealed that the Pelasgians, the Kemetians (Black people) who settled in southern Greece, also occupied the Palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome. The Romans later became a ” Latin” people, and became a mixed race.

But the African element played a major part in Rome’s history. The Blacks were everything, from charioteers to soldiers, generals, and Emperors.  Rome’s famous Oracles were the Sibyls, African prophetesses, who wrote the famous Sibylline Prophecies. These writings were later plagiarized by the Christians. It was the African Sibyls who built the original Vatican, which was a temple to Mami Wata, goddess of the sea.

Undisputable Historical Evidence

Now, before we go further, we must state that many accounts about the origin of Rome that is found on the internet or even in modern books are lies. They are Caucasian versions to usurp the true identity of the Etruscans, who occupied Etruria (ancient Rome, Greece, and parts of Aegean).

The albinos (Caucasians), who were called “the Latins” started to migrate from the Eurasian plains to Italy. They most likely traveled with the Hellenes people into Greece and then moved further into Italy, which was a Black territory.

The contact between the Caucasians and the Black inhabitants of Italy was chaotic, as the Caucasians were violent and invasive.

It is important to note that the first original Black inhabitants were not just limited to Italy (Rome), but stretched to Greece, and the Aegean area. When the threats and violence from the White invaders increased, the Blacks of these areas formed a coalition.

A large number of them packed up their belongings, boarded their ships and moved out of their land. Some of the people stayed back, to defend their lands and deal with the white Etruria.

The Etruscans (Black owners of Rome), had a unique way of building their homes and cities. They built their houses on steep hills, which were surrounded by thick walls. Caucasian-Roman mythology claims that the white Romans built the first walls, but according to factual history and accounts of the Etruscans, the Blacks built the ancient walls of Rome and the Vatican.

To fully understand and possess the entire documents to this important historical fact, you can click on this link here. It gives more detailed accounts with pictures and archeological points to disproved the Caucasian Historians who keep lying and distorting history to discredit the Black man’s achievements and heritage through history.

Below are a few pictures which are evidence of the Black identity of the first Romans:

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Meet Black Man Who Invented

 The Light Bulb

And Telephone [Lewis Latimer]

            

MAY 26, 2019 LIBERTYWRITERSAFRICA HISTORY

Growing up as a young Black child, very little is thought to you about Black inventors like Lewis Latimer and magnificent Black civilizations. The school’s curriculum around the world and especially in Africa focuses more on the Caucasian inventors of the world.

No one teaches our children of men like Lewis. Lewis Latimer remains to date the Africans who made the most impact on the world in the 20th century. He co-founded the telephone and the durable light bulb.

Lewis was born in 1848 to an enslaved African family that fled captivity and settled in Boston. A slave owner named James B. Gray claimed ownership of his father George Latimer. Great figure of the abolitionist movement; Frederick Douglas and William Lloyd Garrison, (a white man and renowned liberator), defended the Latimer family, and George Latimer’s freedom was bought with $400.

Lewis was barely 10 when his father left home, as a small means of income, he sold the William .L. Garrison’s diary.

Lewis Latimer served in President Lincoln’s navy during the American civil war, and at 17, returned to Boston. Being talented in drawing, he got employed by the Crosby and Gould firm where he worked for 11 years.

Lewis patented his first invention in February 10th, 1874. It was a water closet for railroad cars. Thereafter, he worked as an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell and in 1876, designs the description required for the patent filing of the telephone; in other words, a black man concluded the world-changing invention of the telephone. Afterward, Maxim Hiram, the inventor of a machine gun, hires him as a designer.

 

Lewis Latimer would later join the renowned Edison Company as an engineer. At the time, Edison’s 1879 invention of the electric bulb was only designed with bamboo filament, paper, and medium quality carbon and burned out after 30 hours.

Latimer knew there was more to be done. In 1881, Lewis alongside friend Joseph .U. Nichols patented a light bulb that had superior quality carbon filament that would become the long-lasting light bulb. 1882, the patented his method of manufacturing and assembling of carbon filaments.

Those days, light bulbs were lighted in series, if one died, the others went off, then he came up with the concept of parallel arrangement which ended up solving the problem of other bulbs going off. This will bring about the era of electric bulbs in the world.

Lewis led the installation of the electric light system both in Philadelphia, Montreal, Canada and in London, where he mounted the incandescent lights for Maxim-Weston electric light Company.  As an associate of Thomas Edison in the engineering department of the Edison Electric Light Company, New York, he later in 1890, released the first book on electric lightening system in the United State. It was the first of its kind.

The world-changer passed on in 1928 after a long battle with illness. This African is still celebrated to date as a revolutionary inventor of the 20th century.

His contributions are a testament to the amazing mind and ingenuity of the Black man. Till today the world enjoys his contributions to modern science.

It is because of deeds such as these that we focus more on history at Liberty Writers Africa. If the younger and future Black generations know that they are higher stakeholders in the project and advancement of humanity, they would hold their heads high and demand respect.

The Story of An Igbo Slave,

Who Became King of Opobo

And West Africa’s Richest Merchant

APRIL 6, 2019 LIBERTYWRITERSAFRICA HISTORY

Very few humans in the history of humanity have risen from the status of a slave to master and the king. The story of Jaja of Opobo, an Igbo slave sold to the riverine area of present-day Nigeria, is one that inspires every African to strive for greatness and strength. It tells you that you can build an empire from the ashes in which we find ourselves as a people.

King Jaja of Opobo, was a merchant prince and the founder of Opobo, a city-state which is an area that is now known as Rivers state of Nigeria.

Born in Umuduruoha, Amaigbo, in Igboland, he was sold at about the age of twelve as a slave to Bonny, which shares a border with Igbo land and the riverine tribes of the Cross River.

Jaja’s real name was Mbanaso Okwaraozurumbaa. He was born around 1821 at Úmuduruõha, Amaigbo village in the Orlu district, which is now Imo State of Eastern Nigeria. He was the third son of his parents, the Okwaraozurumba.

According to different oral sources, Jaja was sold into slavery in the Niger Delta region under circumstances which are far from clear. One version of the oral traditional accounts say that he was sold because, as a baby, he cut the upper teeth first, an abomination in some ancient Igbo societies.

Another version claims that he was captured and sold by the enemies of his father. He was then bought by Chief Iganipughuma Allison of Bonny. And then Bonny by far was the most powerful city-state on the Atlantic coast of Southeastern Nigeria.

The riverine people organized their society in Canoe Houses. K.O. Dike, noted that their society comprised of “a cooperative trading unit and a local government institution.”

The Canoe houses were usually composed of a wealthy merchant (its founder), his family, and numerous slaves owned by him.  A prosperous house could have several thousand members, both free and bonded, owning hundreds of trade canoes.

In this fiercely competitive society, leadership by merit and not by birth or ascriptions, was necessary if a house was to make headway in the competition that existed between the canoe houses. Any person with the charisma and proven ability, even if he was born of a slave, could rise to the leadership of a house, but could never become a king.

Chief Allison, finding young JaJa too stubborn for his liking, made a gift of him to his friend, Madu, a chief of the Anna Pepple House. The Anna Pepple house was one of the two houses of the royal family; the other being the Manilla Pepple House.

JaJa was placed at the lowest rung of the Bonny slave society ladder, that of an imported slave, distinct from that of someone who was of slave parentage but born in the Delta.

As a young man, he worked as a paddler on his owner’s great trade canoes, traveling to and from the inland markets of the riverine region. Very early, Jaja demonstrated exceptional abilities and business sense, quickly acquainted himself with the Ijo custom of the Delta, and won the hearts of the local people as well as those of the European super traders.

It was rare for a slave of his status to make the transition from canoe paddling to trading, but JaJa, through his honesty, business sense, and pleasantness, soon became prosperous in the region.

Jaja, dealt with the British because he proved his aptitude for business at an early age, earning his way out of slavery. This was because, at that time in history, one can be a domestic slave to his Igbo (African) master and be free to earn money, marry, buy his way out of slavery, and even own land. Slavery was not vicious in Africa.

Jaja was brought up according to Ijaw (Ibani) rituals and eventually established himself as the leader of the Anna Pepple House. Under his leadership, Anna Pepple soon absorbed a couple of other trade houses from Bonny. This lasted for a while, till an ongoing dispute with the Manilla Pepple House, led by Oko Jumbo forced, Jaja to break away, forming his Opobo city-state in 1869.

The palm oil trade was very lucrative at the time, and the city of Opobo soon became the region’s biggest exporter of palm oil. Opobo then became home to fourteen out of the eighteen Bonny former trade houses.

Jaja then moved to block the access of British merchants to the interior of Akwa Ibom and Igbo, giving him an effective monopoly. On many occasions, Opobo even shipped palm oil directly to Liverpool, without the British, middlemen. But his reign was soon to come under threat due to European greed for Africa’s resources.

At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the European powers present mapped out Opobo as British territory, and the British soon moved to claim it.

British imperialists began to assert the crown forcefully on Opobo and other sovereign houses. The British officials on the ground were increasingly ignoring indigenous authorities, while British traders had begun to insist on trading directly with the palm-oil producers in the hinterlands. JaJa tackled these formidable problems judiciously and with great restraint.

Jaja refused to stop taxing British traders and Henry Hamilton Johnston, a British vice-consul, invited him for negotiations in 1887. When Jaja arrived, the British arrested him and tried him in Accra in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) then took him to London for some time, where he met Queen Victoria and was her guest in Buckingham Palace. After some other turbulent history, he was exiled to Saint Vincent in the West Indies. Plans were also made for him to be relocated to Barbados.

But the circumstances of Jaja’s capture and removal left a sour taste in certain British mouths. Lord Salisbury, British prime minister, could not help criticizing Johnston, noting that in other places JaJa’s forced deportation would be called “kidnapping.” Michael Ajayi Crowder describes the event as “one of the shabbiest incidents in the history of Britain’s relations with West Africa.”

In 1891, Jaja was granted permission to return to Opobo, but died on his way home, allegedly poisoned with a cup of tea. Following his exile and death, the power of the Opobo state rapidly declined.

His people gladly paid the cost of repatriating his body and spent a fortune giving him a royal funeral.

Today, an imposing statue of JaJa stands in the center of Opobo with the inscription: “A king in title and indeed. Always just and generous.”