Igbo traditional dancers
A
medical doctor, clinician and researcher in neurocardiology and
neuroscience at the International Institutes of Advanced Research and
Training has revealed that Igbos are genetically ancient biblical Jews.
It could be said that Prof. Philip Chidi Njemanze has encyclopedic
knowledge of science and history. Celebral and controversial, he is a
medical doctor, clinician and researcher in neurocardiology and
neuroscience.
In this interview, Njemanze, chairman of the International
Institutes of Advanced Research and Training, Chidicon Medical and
Diagnostic Center, Owerri, Imo State, made profound revelations about
the Igbo, Nigeria and elsewhere.
Your book, Igbo Mediators of Yahweh Culture of Life, posits
that the architects of ancient civilisations were found in Nigeria, not
in the Middle East. I would like to begin this conversation with the
question, who are the Igbo?
I will begin with an important note to the reader, that the letters
of ancient Igbo language also called ancient Hebrew script gave rise to
the present-day English consonants but not the vowels. So, we could
refit the correct vowels in Igbo language to obtain the correct
pronunciation of the words transliterated in English. The word Igbo
comes from the words I gbo, meaning ‘to mediate.’ In Owerri dialect, we
say I bo. This is the reason you see both correct spellings ‘Igbo’ and
‘Ibo,’ meaning ‘the mediators’ or ‘priests’ that mediate between
humanity and God for the remission of sins. This can be demonstrated in
the words: Holy Bible, which has Igbo etymology (origin), the word
‘Holy’ (Igbo language: Iho Eli Ya, meaning ‘the Divine Light of the Most
High God’); and Bible (Igbo language: Ibo Ibe Eli, meaning ‘mediators
and witnesses of the Most High God’). The Bible was authored by Igbo
scribes, prophets and saints in the Old and New Testaments.
You said in your book that Igbo people were the ancient Egyptians and ancient Israelites. How is that?
The correct historical perspective supported by facts of genetics
and ethnolinguistic origins is that the Igbo people were the people of
ancient Egypt (Igbo language: Greek: AÍgyptos; Igbo language: A g Ya, a
pa at Ose, meaning ‘prays to God and takes advice from the Almighty
God’; Egypt; Igbo language: A g Ya, a pa at, meaning ‘pray to God and
take advice’), ruled by the dynastic Pharaohs (Igbo language: efere ha,
meaning ‘your worship of the people’) who built the Great pyramids
(Igbo language: pa Ya Orie ma ide, meaning ‘the carvings of God at the
temple of Almighty God like a heap of sand’). These ancient pyramids are
seen to this day in Igbo land at Nsude, Agbaja, Enugu State and at
Eziama, Okigwe, many others are submerged underground.
At short periods before 1200 BC and after the Exodus in the 19th
Dynasty, the Igbo Egyptians were conquered, enslaved and later expelled
by the white people of Turkic origin called the Hyksos or Shepherd
Kings, the ancestors of the present-day white Egyptians. They later
faced invasions by the white Hellenic Greeks and white Romans. I say
white Hellenic Greeks because there are the Black Arctic Greeks (Igbo
language: Ogo r ike, meaning ‘district of very strong people’) with
known historical characters like Socrates (Igbo language: isi a kaara at
sa, meaning ‘the head that narrates the instructions to the people’)
and Plato (Igbo language: a pa ilu at, meaning ‘crafts proverbs and
instructions’). The place Rome (Igbo language: Orie ma, meaning
‘Almighty God’s temple’) was the capital city of ancient Italy (Igbo
language: itili, meaning ‘dark [people]’) of the people called Etruscans
(Igbo language: itiri isi oke ana, meaning ‘[people] of dark hair of a
great land’) with a language called Latin (Igbo language: olu otu ana,
meaning language of a united people’). The Igbo Egyptians were enslaved
in their own land and hence called themselves Hebrew (Igbo language: ha
e bu r wa, meaning ‘the people who bear the wickedness of the world’)
and they called their God, Oseburwa (Igbo language Ose e bu r wa ‘the
God that bears the wickedness of the World’).
The Exodus pushed Igbo people out of Egypt southwards to the land
of Canaan (Igbo language: oke Nna, meaning ‘the allotment of the
Father’) in present-day Nigeria. All major archeologists in the world,
including present-day Israeli agree that the Exodus from Egypt to
present-day Israel never happened, because no trace has been found. On
the contrary, we have documented every step of the Exodus from Egypt to
Nigeria. On the journey to Nigeria, they were consecrated as priests and
hence were called Igbo, the mediators. When they arrived in Nigeria, a
land that was promised by God to their ancestors, they settled as the
nation state of ancient Israel (Igbo language: zara Eli, meaning ‘you
answered the Most High’), which was the other name of the people because
of their ancestry from Jacob (Igbo language: Ya a kaa ebe, meaning ‘God
bears witness’).
The word Jew (Igbo language: ji wa, meaning ‘they hold the world’)
reflected their dominance as the ruling class in the ancient world,
particularly, of the people from the tribe of Judah (Igbo language: Ya
ode ha, meaning ‘God resounds among the people’). The letter ‘J’ was
lately introduced in the past two centuries into English language to
replace ‘Y’ sound in Igbo language. The word YaHWeH (Igbo language: Ya
Iho w ihe, meaning ‘God the Divine Light that enlightens’) is an Igbo
expression about the attributes of God (Igbo language: g D, meaning ‘the
Eternal Divine Mercy’). The title of the book tells the story of the
mediators of God with a Culture of Life.
How then did the name Nigeria come in?
The name Nigeria comes from the alternative name of Canaan
transliterated as consonants N-g-r (Igbo language: Nga Orie, meaning
‘the place of God’) or N-g-g-r (Igbo language: Nga g ra, meaning ‘the
place of the people of the Divine Mercy’). This was vowelised by the
British as the Niger. They named the biggest river in this area where
the ancient Israelites settled as Niger. The Black people from this area
were then called Negro or Nigger. However, the modern full name Nigeria
comes from Niger area, which first appeared in an essay written by Miss
Flora Shaw, who later became the wife of Lord F. Lugard, who put
forward this argument in the Financial Times of London of January 8,
1897 thus: “The name Nigeria applying to no other part of Africa may
without offence to any neighbours be accepted as co-extensive with the
territories over which the Royal Niger Company has extended British
influence, and may serve to differentiate them equally from the colonies
of Lagos and the Niger Protectorate on the coast and from the French
territories of the Upper Niger.”
Recently, there was a publication with a headline, ‘Igbo
not Jews, says DNA report,’ conducted by the Jewish Voice Ministries at
Nnewi. What is your reaction to this declaration?
The caption could have been technically correct if it was entitled.
‘Igbo not modern Israeli Jews, reveals DNA report.’ This is because the
modern people of the state of Israel are not the biblical ancient Jews.
We should not expect there would be a genetic match of the modern
people of the state of Israel with Igbo people who are the authentic
ancient Jews. The standard they used to compare the Igbo DNA was the
wrong Jewish database. The comparison should have been the other way
round, and the conclusion should read that the modern-day people of
Israel have no relationship with ancient Jews who are the ancestors of
the Igbo people of Nigeria.
Let us get to the genetic information
In the phylogenetic tree of mtDNA, we find the so-called super
groups, which are really only three basic groups. They came from three
main female lines, which corroborate the biblical account of only three
females that bred supposedly as wives of Shem, Ham and Japheth. These
haplogroups are descendants from a single female Supergroup, namely
Haplogroup L. This one female line Hg L, which is a Super L, then split
into L1, L2 and then L3. The line L3 diverged and from L3 came the other
mtDNA mutations N and M. Thus, all females came from one Eve whose
mtDNA line was L.
The Igbo of Nigeria belong to haplogroup L1, believed to have first
appeared approximately 150,c000 to 240, 000 years ago in East Africa.
They are the Hebrews of the first of God’s creation from Adam (Igbo
language: A daa m, meaning ‘I fell’) and Eve (Igbo language: E wo,
meaning ‘the body that transforms into another body’; or woman; Igbo
language: e wo mman, meaning ‘transforms into a human being’). The L
groups, L1, L2, and L3, are all found in Africa and are the major groups
almost exclusively in sub-Saharan West Africa, with L1 predominant in
Igbo land, Southeastern Nigeria. The L1, L2 and L3 genes are also
referred to as the Nilotic genes, which means genes of people of Igbo
and Southern Sudanese extraction that founded the civilisation of
ancient Egypt and ancient Nubia, along the River Nile (Igbo language:
mmiri Niile, meaning ‘all the waters’). The only exception is North
Africa in Ethiopia where there are large diversities of the mtDNA
haplogroups with traceable Igbo origins in diaspora. The Igbo Greek
origins also show traces of L1 haplogroup especially in Greek Macedonia.
The genetic analysis is the basis for the ‘Out of Africa Theory’ of
migration of modern humans. On the basis of modern genetics, only the
Igbo of Nigeria can be the Hebrews of ancient Israel! It must be
underscored that there are significant gene flows of a common heritage
between Nigerian tribes especially the Igbo-Yoruba. In fact, the word
Yoruba (Igbo language: oyiri ibo, meaning ‘they look like the
mediators’) underscores the genetic similarity, which is up to 99%. The
European genes haplogroups N, M are mutations of the L3 gene of the
majority of the people living in present-day Israel, have no traceable
origins in ancient Israel. In fact, the white skin evolved only
6000-7000 years, so the white Europeans did not play a significant role
in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Babylon until
late towards the beginning of the first century AD.
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