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.”
