GREAT ANCIENT AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS
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The aborigines, or commonly called "Orang Asli" simply means "original people" in the Malay language.
They were the first human occupants of the Malay Peninsula, numbering nearly 100,000 people they are made up of over 18 ethnolinguistic groups living in Malaysia. They reside in scattered villages, camps and estates, in the rainforest living nomadic hunting-and-gathering lifestyle, mountains, and coasts, as well as in some towns and cities. They call themselvesBatek. . Recently, there has been some intermarriage with the neighbouring
Semokberi group. They numbered 105,000 in 1997 representing a mere 0.5 per cent of the national population. The members of the Proto-Malay tribes, whose ancestors were believed to have migrated from the Indonesian islands to the south of the peninsula, speak dialects which belong to the same Austronesian family of languages as Malay, with the exceptions of the Semelai and Temoq dialects (which are Austroasiatic).
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Over the last 160,000 of years our African ancestors have migrated to every corner of the earth. We are descendants of a few groups of African tribes
who united in the face of adversity. Based on synthesis of the mtDNA and Y chromosome evidence with archaeology, climatology and fossil study by scientist.(The Eastward Equatorial Migrations by sea.) Africans first migrated from East Africa from around the regions of Ethopia and Somalia to, Yemen, Oman, Southern India, Burma, China, Malaysia, The Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, The Solomon Islands and all the little islands in between. The migrations and trading westward by sea started declining only about 11,000 years ago, when world sea level rose, recovering from the last deep marine regression caused by global cooling and the locking-up of water in continental glaciers.
Then there were the Northern migrations, from Ethiopia through the Saudi Arabian region. Then the migrations down the Nile. Those that Traveled over land mixed with other Africans who went through physiological changes then entered china looking different.
All people on this earth are connected to the Indigenous African people and the migrations of people today can be proven not only by examining the historical records, but by DNA research.
The Semang are the Pygmy-sized Negritos of the Malay peninsula.
They are probably the indigenous peoples of this area, and have been recorded to have lived here since before the 200s. They are a fairly pure branch of the woolly-haired Negrito race, which includes the natives of the Andaman Islands, and the
Aetas of the Philippines. The men average about 4 ft. 9 or 10 in. (1.43/1.46 m), while the women are 3.5 in. (8.9 cm) shorter. Their color is a very dark brown or black. The shape of the head is round, or intermediate between round and long. The forehead is low and rounded, and projects over the root of the nose, which is short, depressed and pyramid-shaped. The eyes are wide open and round, showing no obliquity, the iris being of a very rich, deep brown. Lips vary from moderate to full, the mouth is rather large, the chin feebly developed, and the jaws are often slightly projecting.
. Recently, there has been some intermarriage with the neighbouring
Semokberi group.
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Although the island nation of Japan, occupying the extreme eastern extensions of Asia, is assumed by many to have been historically composed of an essentially homogeneous population and culture, the accumulated evidence (much of which has been quietly ignored) places the matter in a vastly different light, and though far more study needs to be done on the subject, it seems indisputable that Black people in Japan played an important role from the most remote phases of antiquity into at least the ninth century.
Meaningful indications of an African presence in ancient Japan have been unearthed from the most remote ages of the Japanese past.
To begin with, and as a significant example, a February 15, 1986 report carried by the Associated Press, chronicled that: "The oldest Stone Age hut in Japan has been unearthed near Osaka....Archeologists date the hut to about 22,000 years ago and say it resembles the dugouts of African bushmen, according to Wazuo Hirose of Osaka Prefectural of Education's cultural division. `Other homes, almost as old, have been found before, but this discovery is significant because the shape is cleaner, better preserved' and is similar to the Africans' dugouts." In 1923, anthropologist Roland B. Dixon wrote that "this earliest population of Japan were in the main a blend of Proto-Australoid and Proto-Negroid types, and thus similar in the ancient underlying stratum of the population, southward along the whole coast and throughout Indo-China, and beyond to India.
The first Shogun of Japan was a Black man by the name of Sakanouye no Tamuramaro? He was a warrior symbolized in Japanese history as "a paragon of military virtues". Sakanouye no Tamuramaro helped the Japanese fight the aborigine people of Japan called Ainu. Ainu traditions tell of "race of Black dwarfs" or Koropokguru which inhabited Japan before the coming of the Ainu. In 791 a battle of the Ainu and Japanese was taking place and the Japanese emperor Kwammu (782-806) summoned Sakanouye no Tamuramaro an "African Warrior". After defeating the Ainu and providing services through-out his career in 797 he was named "Sei-i Tai-Shogun" . Tamuramaro founded a shrine in the district of Izawa in Mutsu dedicated to Hachiman in which he hung up his bows and arrows. Tamuramaro was the first warrior statesmen of Japan. In later ages he was revered by military men as a model commander and as the first recipient of the title Shogun.
There is even a Japanese proverb "For a Samurai to be brave he must have a bit of Black blood"
Negroid races peopled at sometime all of the South of India, Indo-China. The South of Indo-China actually has now pure Negritos as the Semangs and mixed as the Malays and the Sakis..
Quoted in Les Negritos de la Chine by H.Imbert, a French anthropoligst who lived in the Far East.
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The Prince Liu-Nan, who died in 122 B.C.,speaks of a kingdom of diminutive blacks in the southwest of China. Chinese folklore speaks often of these Negroes, and mentions an Empress of China named Li (373-397A.D.), consort of the Emperor Hsiao Wn Wen, who is spoken of as being a Negro..
White tribes that invaded India and disrupted Black civilization there are known as Aryans
Negroids, the brachycephalic (broad headed) from Africa were the oldest people to found only in patches among the hill tribes of south India (Irulas, Kodars, Paniyans and Kurumbas) on the mainland. But they survive day of the Saka month are given below: in the Andaman Islands, where they have retained their language.
Proto - Australoids or Austrics were a race of people, with wavy hair plentifully distributed over their brown bodies, long heads with low foreheads and prominent eyeridges, noses with low and broad roots, thick jaws, large palates and teeth and small chins.
The Austrics of india represent a race of medium height, dark (and in some cases black) complexion with long heads and rather flat moses but otherwise of regular features. Miscegenation with the earlier Negroids may be the reason for the dark or black pigmentation of the skin and flat noses. Austric tribes spread over the whole of india and then pass on to Burma, Malaya and the islands of South East Asia. The Austrics form the bedrock of the people.
The Austrics laid the foundation of Indian civilization. They cultivated rice and vegetables and made sugar from sugarcane. Their language has survived in the Kol orMunda speech Mundari current in Eastern and Central India.
Of course, the most important bond between the African continent and the Indian subcontinent is one of peace, initiated by Mahatma Gandhi while he was in South Africa.
But interestingly, the relationship extends far before the European occupation, as can be seen from this presentation. One of the most ancient historical artifacts found in the Indus valley resembles a African woman, and Lord Krishna (black tribal) is one of the important deities of Hinduism.
See.... The African Connection
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Chinese records from as early as 192 C.E. reference a kingdom in what is now central Vietnam known as Linyi, which meant the "land of black men." Its inhabitants possessed "black skin, eyes deep in the orbit, nose turned up, hair frizzy."
The kingdom of Lin-yi was known in Sanskrit documents as Champa, a substantially Indianized kingdom (Buddhist and Brahmin) with close contacts with India and China. The Cham seem to have possessed what appears to have been a strong Melanesian element and are believed to have settled along the coastal plains of mid-southern Vietnam more than two millennia ago. Another view is that the Cham were actually Black colonists from south-central India. Either way, it is clear that the Cham dominated the region for centuries.
According to one account the kingdom of Champa was born of a victory by the Blacks "over the Chinese province of Je-Nan...later, it frequently demonstrated its unruliness and the spirit of conquest, including against China." Early records further note that, "For the complexion of men, they consider black the most beautiful. In all the kingdoms of the southern region, it is the same." Chinese scribes added that the people of Champa adorned themselves "in a single piece of cotton or silk wrapped about the body....They are very clean; they wash themselves several times each day, wear perfume, and rub their bodies with a lotion compounded with camphor and musk."
H. Otley Beyer believed that between 900 and 1200 C.E. a group of sea-farers made their exodus from central Vietnam and found their way to the Philippines. These sea-farers, noted Beyer, were called the "Orang Dampuans or Men of Champa." During this same period Cham ships, known to the Chinese by the appellation kun-lun-bo (the "vessels of Black men") were navigating the currents of the Indian Ocean ranging from Southeast Asia to Madagascar.
The word, "Falasha," means "stranger" or "immigrant" in Geez, the classical ecclesiastical tongue of Ethiopia. Though the Ethiopian Jews prefer to call themselves Beta Israel (the House of Israel), "Falasha" is an apt way to characterize their community's role as an interminable outsider since its inception nearly two millennia ago.
Only since the Israeli government accepted the Falashas as "official" Jews in 1975 has this unlikely community begun to find some of the acceptance that it has sought.
