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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Lucifer the Bearer of Light: Part I – Anonymous
Cultural and Literary Evidence for an Early African (early Igbo Nsibidi and Berber Tifinaghi) impact on Southern Europe: The African Roots of European Literacy
Tifinagh is the writing system developed and used indigenously in North West Africa. It is used to write Berber languages such as Tamazight, Tamajaq, Tamasheq, Amazigh, and some Hausa dialects which are spoken by about a million or so people in Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria and Libya.
Similarities in the ideas and concepts of the ancient Igbo and the ancient Greek
By Jide Uwechia
Comparison between ancient Greek and ancient Igbo numbering systems and other fundamental concepts: by Jide Uwechia
I noted in my studies the great similarities between the numbering system of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Igbos of Nigeria. The Igbos are one of the major cultural grouping in Nigeria, and number close to 35 million in population. Modern Igbo is a remnant, a vestige of what was once a great and powerful culture, whose ancient but forgotten impacts are still seen in diverse and cultures places. Including perhaps, ancient Greece.