Thought-provoking paradoxes.

When the noisemakers get tired, they'll find something else to do. Or better still, they can make noises throughout their lives. Na your life palaver. Ko Kanye West. Ariwo oja (a market's noises) that has zero effect.

YORUBA – ARE WE DEVELOPING OUR LANGUAGE?

The English-speaking countries continue to develop their language to meet the needs of their citizens. So also are the Chinese, French, Spanish, Germans etc.

One might ask: How come this is the case? Why don’t all these major economic powers jettison their languages and learn other people’s language? Why don’t any of them claim that it’s language cannot be used for science?

Ha! Ha! This is because they know that language is the MOST important driver of the economy.

You don’t believe me? Just look at the correlation. We can safely conclude that the greater the number of people that speaks a language, the bigger its market is.

Of course, it is easier to develop technology within a native language than using a foreign language.

The countries mentioned above seek to do some things with their languages:

1. They seek to make it easier to communicate ideas quickly to their offspring.
2. They seek to make their languages competitive with other languages so their children would want to learn the language and not another people’s language.
3. They use their own languages to promote their own stories so their children would want to know more about who they are and what they are capable of doing.
4. They actually teach their languages to their children in their schools and do not glorify other people’s languages above their own.
5. They translate the world’s scientific and technological developments to their own languages and do not expect their people to learn other people’s languages to know what is going on in the world.

http://yoruba-scipedia.wdfiles.com/local--files/wiki:aestyls-yoruba-science-and-technology-encyclopedia-inde/YOR%C3%99B%C3%81%20SCIENCE%20AND%20TECHNOLOGY%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20INDEX%20-%202020-8.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1JtHP8pxQTAB286zguHVtPnJ8Hh-nzyFZVXL-FhDNNynrOc0VPcrxN0Pw

Let us look at the Yoruba language. Are we also doing these things?

Source: Association of Educators of Science and Technology in Yoruba Language via FB

Theflint1:
Yea, people are often quite interested in these astral projection stuffs (that's what you're describing) and they'd be willing to pay money for it. I'm not sure how practical these things are sha, but used to have books on these stuffs in the early 2010's, and the books described how to astral project to the T...but mind no gree person try am, cause there was always the caveat of leaving your body and not returning back...just wasn't worth the risk. In fact I had two roommates then that went as far as getting the materials to run the level...na person catch them for the hostel kitchen dey run the level early hours of morning pursue dem...don't know whether they later did try it again sha.

When the physics and math for it become established, more people will be able to do it using technology. But most times at the moment, people that do it are mainly assisted by their ancestors/forebears or such people are a god. For the former, it's those ones (their ancestors and forebears) that guide them.

I've never paid money to learn all I've said. Na days and nights of studying books like Otem's, Physics and Mathematics textbooks and plenty field research.

Flying in the dream events really dey disturb me a lot when I dey school (then as a Muslim, na like daily occurrence). It felt like dying then.

So, those events served as the push to keep researching into this subject. Unknown to me, there's an entire field of Physics and Mathematics for it.

So, I've mastered the events now.

Ellexy:
Atheists too believe in the concept of curses?

So you no dey see atheists when they make wishes here on Nairaland. Curses are mere wishes.

It's coincidence underlying curses. That works based on probability.

That doesn't mean you should be welcoming curses into your life anyhow sha. Some people dey back their wishes (curses) with action.

Na "code" the children go use play for here all night long

Ellexy:
Otem wey don go into hiding. Those gods that he caged don break out and dem dey find am. Na why the guy dey on the run but I won't mind joining the Otemic Jihad if he drops the code.

Lols, you know the number of curses Isese practitioners, atheists, agnostics, and others dey pile up on these gods daily on social media. Lols. Very funny. Wetin do these people? Very funny

Theflint1:
Guys been eager to get the secrets of time travel from A001, wonder if they'd be as eager knowing this is basic requirement

Lols, some foreign people wey know me personally actually send requests on social media at various times that they want to do time travel. They want to change some things in the past. Different requests.

They just read my contribution and works in some scientific communities on social media and assumed I render such services even though I never said such.

So, I gave them the practical explanation and the Physics underlying it and the benefits and risks.

I also taught them general tips on how to do it: it's mainly based on a path of self-discovery and meditation (which will be quite long) or getting help from your ancestors if they want to help you (which is faster).

Pending the time technology will be built in the coming years.

I told them if their ancestors want to help them achieve their goal, they'll be ones to connect with such people themselves and give them the code (teach them) to establish communication with them often.

That's because consciousness has both objective and subjective aspects. Without going too deep here, the objective aspect has to do with waves, superposition, coherence.

The subjective aspect has to do with genetics (your lineage, blood). So, that means there's no universal method that'll work for everyone.

But groups or sets of methods for various classes or families or groups of humans. There's a specific reason I mentioned concepts like group theory, ring theory here the other day.

But after telling them the plain truth and they keep coming back with the same requests, I just realized that people don't really want to know the truth.

Na charlatans dem dey find, which make them prone to scams. I no dey claim wetin I no be.

After seeing too many of such requests, I just had to leave the group wey dem add me to without my consent initially. They also added other well-known scientists. I just dey laugh.

Na scam dey sell for this world. Na why many of una hate Otem for this forum. Lols.

Ibime:
I'm sure boys will be interested in Otem time travel if he comes back from the future with sure odds and winning lotto numbers.

Anything other than that, he go explain tire, no evidence.

Lols, lotto and the likes na small pikin thinking.

Person bring knowledge for big technologies you dey mention lotto and gambling.

So, if na you, you go reveal deep ancient knowledge (technologies of the past eras) to your descendants for mere gambling, lotto.

Most people don't really know what's called time travel. They're just throwing the term around. They have this false picture built in their minds from watching too many movies, either the foreign or the local ones.

People that have practical knowledge of what's called time travel will tell you it involves dying. When you do time travel, you'll die first and start the journey, and wake up later after the journey.

It mainly involves taking flights in inner realms or worlds lying within your brain.

In these realms, time (and space also) doesn't exist. They're not gravity-based realms like this earthly realm, hence the flights.

Time travel is what's called witches and wizards flying in the night in this part of the world.

But it's ignorant people that say such.

If I ask a typical African if they'd like to do time travel, many will say, "yes".

But if I use the local term of flying in the dream, they'd become scared thinking they'll become a witch or wizard (the old terms ignorant people used to refer to early scientists in Europe). But that (flying in the dream) is the real thing.

Everyone actually does time travel.

I'd give a simple definition of time travel based on my own practical knowledge of it and knowledge of Physics, especially the Physics of Consciousness (this is the specific field underlying time travel itself and once you hear this field being taught in schools in the coming years, then it means time travel technologies are very close).

In the coming years, it'll be taught in schools as a new field of Physics and this field is what will be used to build time travel technologies.

Time travel simply means engaging in a journey temporally along 3 dimensions of time: past, present, and future.

I won't go into too much details here because this isn't knowledge I'd be dropping casually on this sort of forum. It's highly valuable.

Now, everyone does time travel whenever they do space travel in this realm (the normal traveling along the 3 dimensions of space, up, down, in/out) even though most aren't aware of it.

This is because space-time is a continuum and exists as a single entity, not individually as most see it.

So, that means whenever you move along the three dimensions of space, you also move along the three dimensions of time. But in this realm (which is gravity-based), people can only move along the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time (present) due to the presence of gravity.

Information about the other dimensions of time (past, future) is locked deep within the brain for most people.

But not for everyone. A tiny percentage of the human population can actually gain access to this information.

That's what they do when they fly in dreams and journey to different realms while the majority are fast asleep and aren't perceptive enough to see themselves in that state.

When you're doing time travel, you'll die first. You'll feel it as your body becomes stiff and watch yourself (your soul) hovering over your body and you start the flight.

Time travel isn't as fun as Hollywood paints it. Also, it's not dark the way Nollywood paints it as something wicked witches and wizards do.

It's just like space travel (the normal moving around we do and journeying in this earthly realm). The motive of engaging in it and what a person does with that knowledge (that gift or power of time travel) is what makes it good or bad.

Some oyinbo scientists go tell you say time travel isn't possible because no object with mass can travel faster than light based on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.

But their problem be say dem never see the specific field of physics and mathematics for time travel. They never develop am.

Dey think mass is fundamental to the Universe, but it's an emergent property. This is because space-time isn't fundamental to the Universe. It's a mental construct and is not real.

All this will become clear in the coming years when scientists understand consciousness and the brain deeply.

Time travel has its own physics and mathematics entirely. I don't want to say more than this on that aspect. Dis site no be scientific community.

As I dey tell some white people and Indians wey dey shout say dey do wan do time travel, dey wan do time travel on Facebook bothering me at various times, they think say e be like the movies.

But it's like dying. So it's not for the faint-hearted. That's why only a very, very tiny percentage of the human population actually achieve it at any specific era.

When all these children here see themselves floating at the ceiling of their room while lying down and watching their lifeless body on the floor, dem go rush back into their body and start looking for one pastor and alfa to pray for them and deliver them from demonic attack.

But it's actually a natural phenomena. You go on the journey (time travel) and come back safely.

When a person's time to die is due, it's the same process everyone takes; only that they'll be doing the time travel (going on that journey) for the last time in this realm in that era.

Even when the technology for time travel is developed in the future, the person will still die first.

Whether through the use of technology or meditation, dying is unavoidable because you do time travel as a light (this is our real form in the base reality; this realm is only a projection of that reality).

That's why I said the physics and mathematics underlying time travel hasn't gone mainstream yet. It's the physics of death and reincarnation (yes, there's a physics for these two natural phenomena).

This is the field that'll provide the objective (scientific) understanding of death as a phase transition of one's consciousness and doesn't mean end of one's consciousness like most think at the moment.

Overall, time travel is fun. If you see yourself flying in the dream (this is what time travel is), know that it means you're a god, not a mere mortal.

It's a feat reserved for the less than 0.1% of the human population. It's not a demonic possession.

Everyone experiences it, but only a tiny percentage of the human population can perceive themselves consciously in that state and do it at will. These are the pacesetters and the geniuses of this realm.

Person bring knowledge for Africans to develop in the age of science and technology and keep up with the other relatively advanced cultures of the world, una dey talk about gambling and lotto.

Nairaland mumus. Dem think say Otem just slept and woke up and came up with histories (ancient histories) of almost all cultures of the world and a language he called a dead language. It's not good to be mentally slow in life.

It's just obvious some regions of the world are unfortunate to have many morons among them. I mean Isese practitioners dey complain say Oyinbo people stole knowledge from their Odu Ifa to develop Google.

Yes, it's true the whites actually did so via colonialism and slavery.

Then, Otem came again with new knowledge containing sciences far ahead of today. How did most Africans in these parts of the world approach what he brought?

Na daily fights. Wait till the whites lay their hands on his writings and use them to build big technologies. Then, the mumus go start wailing again say dem don steal their knowledge to build technologies.

Shey you go blame the whites say you dey dumb in life. Na so I dey tell Isese practitioners to stop regarding Odu Ifa as something divine or religious text that it's much more than that.

It's deep science and technology that's even far ahead of modern science and technology but most of them no understand. They think the science I'm talking about is binary mathematics (wey don cast already with the advent of programming).

I no come know wetin Africa as a continent do nature wey come be say na the most stupid humans on the planet come concentrate for a single region.

Their brain no know more than religion, "this one is God", "that one is God".

I made a post concerning the origin of Africa. These are key historical facts every African should have at their fingertips.

But most of them no even read am. You see this Africa matter e, . Their low intelligence be like curse.

They just left the key facts in the post and started fighting me, . Small children wey no sabi anything wasting time on futile endeavor.

Person go just do him best for posterity sake. If no be say hoarding of knowledge that can benefit people is bad, I no go even bother myself.

This kind of knowledge about history and science is highly valuable.

Na your childish fights for here go make me stop making posts on Nairaland abi. Lols, very funny. You wailed all year long, no single achievement with your wailings.

Dem get dem brain, but to use am is too difficult for them

BlueRayDick:


Initially I thought u were still sane and redeemable; the moment I confirmed u are far gone I had to stick to getting amused by ur lunacy from afar .

As u can see I didn't quote u until ur lunacy pushed u again today to mention me.

I hope u find peace, if possible please contact Tani Olorun he can help wash ur head and rid ur brain of the Otem-infused schizophrenia that has turned u to laughing stock not just online but even offline amongst ur peers.

Lols, you still dey quote me to type nonsense. Imbe, when I drop another post, mumu go soon wail and shine teeth as usual.

Your fufu wey you call brain no tell you say you just dey waste your time for here. O we. You be pikin

BlueRayDick:


That is because they've all concluded it is fruitless discussing with a lunatic na. Why waste time engaging someone who can't make any reasonable point without quoting the book of his "Evu" Otem ?

U call people shallow but u are the same person who can't discuss any other topic aside boasting about ur knowledge of physics(which u have nothing to show for it thus far) and some gibberish u read in Otem's book.

Carry ur shallow intellect commot my circumference jare.

Lols, but you've been quoting this lunatic since and typed over 10 posts on him here. That says a lot about your mental state. Your fellow m.orons go don know say your were na follow come.

Hopefully, you get a cure for your undiagnosed maniac disorder soon. E no good reason make man pikin dey disgrace him generation like this in public. Go back to your posts and count the number of reactions, direct posts, and indirect posts you've made concerning A001 on this thread for the past few hours.

Mumu

BlueRayDick:


Everybody here knows u are a raving lunatic , we only laugh at u in amusement as to how far u've gone in ur lunacy.

Like u don't get; u are a side attraction here and nothing more. Anytime we want to get amused, we give u and otem a shoutout to see if ur lunacy has progressed or regressed from the last time

Awon e-jihadists. Your fellow jihadists go give you enough likes here and shares.

Were dey fight for god all about with him fellow animals, lols. You go wail tire. Many people that share the same interests as Otem still dey come.

You never see anything. Wail yesterday, wail today, wail tomorrow, I go still post here as usual.

Keep wailing in futility. When intelligent people dey discuss salient issues, imbe dey shine teeth all over the thread.

No single person among the dumbos even addressed any of the points raised in the post. I never knew there are humans on this planet that can be this dull sha

Isese celebrity. Good one. Make him use the newly acquired status well.

Dem wail about Otem all year long, yet dem no fit point to a single thing their wailings don achieve. People wey get brain wey dem no dey use

BlueRayDick:


Oga go and look for the screw wey lose for ur head elsewhere; E no dey my hand

Lols, imbe dey talk like person wey get brain. Just dey shine your teeth all about now. You're obviously sick in the head. You directed a comment to me and I replied you. Na so you daft reach?

When you made your post directed at me, were you expecting me to ignore your stupidity?

Nairaland and low quality of engagement. No single reasonable comment among the several mentions I got and the snide remarks after the initial post. These ones aren't really after the truth sha.

They don't give a damn about the history, cultures and traditions of Africa. Imbes too plenty for here

BlueRayDick:


UPDATE

For the records, I have stopped taking mentions of delusional looneys serious.

I wish u well in ur Otem asslicking journey.

Mumu. Even when Otem dey Nairaland, he no say I no dey do asslicking. If you write a book and your work is good backed with evidence, when discussing the topic of your expertise, I'll quote your work.

I work with evidence, hard data. If a person makes a claim and the claim is backed with evidence, I take that as true. Simple. Now keep shining your teeth all around.

I've quoted many authors here, but na only Otem dey make you and your fellow dolts dey shine teeth all around like a maniac fellow because Otem na your fellow African. Pele o.

Anyway, no be news say Africans mostly don't support their fellow Africans even when the claim of that person is true. Na your life palaver sha

They just think say some humans go just dey manifest inexplicable feats just like that. These ones no sabi anything, . When you dey sleep, you no know where your fellow humans wey dey manifest as geniuses for this realm dey take tutorials and lessons.

Even for football, some people dey take classes (do trainings) on the other side when their mates are fast asleep. For science, some scientists dey take classes for the other side when their mates are fast asleep. When everyone wakes up and you start seeing some inexplicable feats, you go no say mysteries plenty for this world.

A number of geniuses and gifted people of the present eras regularly communicate with the people of the past (their ancestors and forebears) to learn from them. That's what Oyinbo people call "inspiration" or "muse".

Empty heads everywhere

BlueRayDick:
Come to think of it; what's the difference between someone who believes his fellow mortal has code to time-travel and someone who believes Adeboye suspended winter in Colorado for days

How you go know the difference when you no dey read? Lols, if you read the initial post, you go don see the underlying math and physics for time travel. Science is the key difference.

If there's space travel (the normal travel you do spatially when when you walk or journey all about), why can't there be time travel for the temporal dimensions?

Mumu. Space-time exists as a fabric. It's a continuum, not a single entity as most people see it.

That means in principle, everyone does time travel when they do space travel, but only a tiny percentage of the human population is conscious or aware of it.

Those are the small percentage you've spent a large percentage of your life worshipping as God.

So many dense people here. Today's science hasn't just advanced to that level yet. But time travel will be achieved in the coming years using technology.

It had been accomplished many times in the past. Mumu think say feats like kanaako, egbe in Yoruba are juju or voodoo.

But they were actual technologies of the past eras, and it's the same principles underlying them that also underlie what's called time travel.

I don't know how people can be so "dense" like this.

Na people wey dey do time travel mumu people like you dey call witches and wizards for this part of the world.

But there's nothing like witches and wizards. It's all science.

Some humans have the gift to explore their brain much deeper than the majority so they engage in feats like time travel that involves taking flights consciously while asleep.

It's simply like space travel in another dimension or realm (which lies deep within the brain).

Na so some people of the past discover many languages you see all about today. Also, various technologies, courses, fields being studied in schools.

Na dense dey think some humans just worked out some things on their own.

Children wey no sabi anything go dey say nonsense all about.

Lols, the way dey program dumbos, every single thing in life na religion. Lols, 10MB memory capacity wey their brain get no fit carry anything pass religion.

But religion is just a tiny aspect (element) among the infinite elements of nature. There's science, technology, sports, reproduction, and tons of others. Everything no be your delusions wey you dey call religion.

Na Stephen Hawking best understand how dolts see highly intelligent people as crazy people. Na so you dense reach when you regard people that value critical thinking, philosophy, history, and native culture as crazy?

And you're normal if you believe in one sky daddy and condemn your native culture and traditions?

See the line of reasoning for the dumbos. I no dey do beliefs like you, religious people. I work with hard data, physics, math. It's these three that guide my actions and philosophy in life, not a sky daddy or the delusions you call religion.

Mumuni dey shine teeth all around. Were oja. Do you've anything "upstairs" apart from shining teeth? I don't think so.

Lols, person dey sing Otem's name here all about every now and then, and e no even know next to nothing about am.

Different kinds of maniac condition dey dis world sha.

The guy don state the number of years he go use complete him mission right here on Nairaland. Anyone following his threads here knows this even though many of us didn't want him to leave.

Obj talk say Western democracy no fit work for Africa because it doesn't take into account the continent's history, culture, and tradition.

Which form of government go work in a region with too many dumb people who don't value Africa's history, culture and tradition? None.

If a people no value their history, culture and tradition, how dem go develop? See mumunis fighting those that love keeping records of African history, culture and tradition.

How you go develop when you dey fight historians like Otem and wailing endlessly all about? Lols

I don't know how a continent where dolts like this plenty go develop sha

If you're doing a project on documenting the history of your culture (your people), you no add Otem's book to the sources you go consult, that project will only contain shallow history (just a few hundreds or thousands years ago).

The mumu wey dey shine teeth all around dey learn their history from the Bible and Qur'an, lols.

We need less of m.orons like this in Africa and more of historians like Otem and scientists that value the native culture.

Make the children keep shining teeth all about and wailing about Otem. Wail yesterday, today, and forever. Endless wailing in futility.

OasisX:




.......I swear. I tried to read it but my eyes were turning. Make person no faint ontop Otem matter. LOL!

How you go understand am? The math and physics underlying what I discussed there is advanced Quantum Mechanics, Group Theory, Ring Theory, Fractal Geometry. How many of you here understand these?

Maybe one or two. Lols.

If many of you learn the math and physics underlying time travel, una fit run enter market the next day.

The post is meant for a tiny percentage of Nairaland members. Only those ones can get it. Mumu no go know why only a tiny percentage of the human population have ever been worshipped as gods and goddesses for thousands of years in human history by the vast majority.

These (the gods and goddesses) are the gifted humans, and they're always very rare.

I like the way Isese adherents I see on social media support Tani Olorun. So, some of them gifted him with a car (a Highlander) earlier today. It really pays to be brave in life, be connected to your ancestors and forebears, and support your native culture and traditions.

However, cultural practices like ebo (sacrifice) and isin (worship) are bad and should be condemned.

The belief that you can't prosper and make it in life if you support your ancestors and forebears and native culture is nothing but a blatant lie peddled by ignorant Muslims and Christians.

Many people have embraced their local culture and tradition and experienced key progress in life. There are various well known examples.

The lies of the Muslims and Christians don cast

Some posts are lengthy. That means they're meant for the tiny percentage of the human population. If you're not among that small percentage, it means your IQ level is below the average (of that class).

So, don't waste your time whenever you see my posts here because you're not simply intelligent enough to comprehend issues I discuss here.

I know these posts are above the IQ of the morons that mentioned me yesterday and today to laugh. Some people are just irredeemably stupid.

All these is too much for their single digit IQ. If these ones take a course in Quantum Mechanics and Advanced Algebra, dem go run enter market the next day.

But these are just some of the knowledge that the less than 0.1% of the human population that achieved feats like time travel in the past era had.

Ask the dumbos how the languages they're speaking all around came about? They don't know. Why did houses in the typical village settings look similar traditionally, especially in West Africa (they've an underlying pattern) and those in the typical village settings in China traditionally (they've also have an underlying pattern)?

They don't know. So many things the mumunis don't know and they don't even know they don't know. Lols.

When elderly people and those with sound intellect are discussing, kids and the dumb ones will only be making jest all about.

It's not good to be this dumb in life.

This is a lengthy post. So, it's not meant for the mentally lazy ones.

Acquiring the History of Your Culture: The Origin of Africa as a Case Study

For a people to develop and move forward, there are some basic things many of them have to get right. These basic requirements include knowing their history (who their ancestors and forebears are) and engaging in philosophy and science. If many people in a region don't know their history, backwardness and poverty will be recurring decimals in such a region.

When you want to learn who your ancestors and forebears are as a people and the specific place you originated from, you can use various methods. The most reasonable starting point is to consult the elders in your culture, then read books written by the indigenes themselves (your fellow natives), not those written by outsiders.

This factor is highly important because it's often the natives of a place that know their history and everything about that place deeply. Then, you consult books written by outsiders (other people not belonging to your culture).

If you don't have writers and historians native to your culture, then that culture is really pitiable because it means your culture is endangered and could die anytime soon. That speaks volume about the level of collective intelligence of such a culture.

There are also other common ways to learn your history and preserve your cultural heritage and traditions. Even if you combine many of these well-known methods, many times, it's difficult or impossible to know some specific aspects of your history.

For instance, most Africans don't know the origin of the word, 'Africa', and this is partly due to the damaging effects of slavery and colonialism by the whites and Arabs. But this should be common knowledge among Africans.

If you don't know your history as a people and aren't connected to your ancestors and forebears, you can't grow and prosper as a people. It's reality, not a curse.

To know the origin of Africa, Otem is the best source I've come across today, especially due to his use of scientific methods in acquiring and teaching histories.

Here's one of the accounts of the origin of Africa (the history of Africa) according to Otem:

"Afrika was the son of Afri, who was born in the 101st year of the homo sapiens era. Now Afrika was born in the northern side of the continent now called Africa. And the interpretation of his name was 'the soul of Afri'.

Now Afrika grew in wisdom and knowledge. And when he was the age of thirty, he slept and awoke with a new language. And the language is that which is now called Berber. And Afrika spoke the language in the hears of the people until they began to learn it.

And they wondered how he came about the language. Now the words of the Berber language were seven hundred and fourteen initially. And the people learnt all of them and spoke to each other with the language, such that they soon began to speak it naturally.

Now Afrika was worshipped as a god because of his knowledge of poetry, proverbs, deep speeches and songs. And he told the people hundreds of wise words and proverbs.

And Afrika said, it is only a people that are without knowledge that will sell the heritage of their land. The son is the continuity of the father upon the earth. A son who has disowned his father has killed his father upon the earth.

But a son who tells his children and children's children the histories of his fatherland has preserved the soul of his father on the earth. A generation that do not care to know the history of his ancestors is a failed generation.

But a generation which is set to learn and study the history of his fathers is a generation of the blessed people. Love unites the people, but war scatters them. Therefore let all the lands where this language shall be spoken be united as one. This language and this tongue is brought upon us for unity and this unity shall prevail. Afrika went about in those days to speak of peace. And all the lands where he went learnt the language which he spoke to them, being now called the Berber.

Now Afrika went to Egypt and became a friend of Khonnum. And Khonnum learnt the language which he brought to them, saying, it is necessary to teach my people this language for the unity of many lands.

So the Berber language became the language which was spoken by many lands across the North of Africa in those days. And they had no difficulty trading among themselves all the days of Khonnum and Afrika even till ten centuries after." Book of Universal History, pg. 1133

When learning history, one doesn't learn it from a single source. So, this is Otem's account. Are there other corroborating sources for the claims in this account made by other Africans and non-Africans (note I said 'Africans' first, not whites or Arabs, which is the usual practice by most Africans when they want to learn their history)? I don't know how a person can lay claim to intelligence when it's foreign people they love to learn their own history from.

Are there any evidence in support of Otem's claims?

So, if one researches this account, there are actually several corroborating evidence for a number of the claims. Those well-versed in history would know of the Afri tribe in North Africa (around Tunisia, Algeria, and the likes).

Also, if your knowledge of the history of religions is sound, especially the history of ancient African religions like those of the ancient Egyptians, you'd know that 'ka' is a concept in the spirituality/religion of the ancient Egyptians meaning 'soul'. There are many references for this.

So, the origin of the word, 'Africa' which Otems call 'Afrika' or 'the soul of Afri' ( 'Afri' + 'ka' ) is native to this continent itself from the name of Afri (and his son, Afrika), who are ancestors of modern-day Africans.

So, it wasn't the whites that named Africa like the ignorant ones that don't know their left from right often say. 'Afrika' is native to this continent and had been in use thousands of years before the whites invaded Africa.

However, the system of writing in many of the languages of Africa today came from the whites (mainly Old Latin). Before the whites came, our forefathers had invented their own systems of writing.

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians had established their hieroglyphs (similar to our emojis and emoticons today) as ancient Egypt is the origin of civilization.

The Igbos had the Nsibidi writing system. Yorubas, too, had their own which became lost thousands of years ago. Other native cultures of Africa also have/had their own indigenous writing systems.

Colonialism and slavery played a key role in the lost of these indigenous African writing systems. So, Africans already had established ways of communicating among themselves and keeping records before the whites and Arabs came.

Key ancestors of Africans such as Afri and Afrika had invented ways for their people to communicate and write (keep records) long, long before the unfortunate contact of Africans with the whites and Arabs.

So words like 'Afri' and 'Afrika' had their native ways containing indigenous symbols which Africans used to represent them before the whites brought their Latin characters currently in use today.

Therefore, the origin of Africa is 'Afri' and 'Afrika', who are the ancestors of present-day Africans. That's a fact. Africa wasn't named by the whites.

To learn history, a reasonable person focuses on their roots (their ancestors, forebears, elders who are still alive in their community), while the dull ones learn from the Bible and Quran.

If you want to know the origin of your people, you learn from the source itself: Your ancestors, forebears, and elders who are still alive in your communities. Then, you use things like science (archeology, paleontology) and other sources to corroborate/verify what you've learnt.

How do you learn about your origin from your ancestors and forebears who have left this realm? By being connected to your roots, learning about your ancestors and forefathers, and partaking in festivals celebrating those people.

If you're well-connected to your ancestors and forebears, this has a lot of benefits. Some of your ancestors had invented great technologies in the past.

For instance, the tech for time travel had been built by some African geniuses in the past eras. There's a lot you can learn from your ancestors and forebears, who are the gifted people of the extinct human eras.

If you know your ancestors well enough, you'll establish a communication link with them. There's a specific set of codes that you can use to communicate with the dead.

You can see these codes like phone numbers. But really, they're simply frequencies of heartbeats and breath that will connect you to the realm where your ancestors and forebears are at the moment and communicate with them.

It's code, meaning the specific knowledge (the frequencies and how to tune them to achieve your aim) is between you and your ancestors. They're the ones to teach you because it also depends on factors like genetics (your lineage) and others.

This is due to the subjective nature of this mode of communication. However, the objective aspect works based on the principles of waves (especially electromagnetic waves), superposition, and coherence.

This support system is the secret of some of the great people (scientists, footballers, business magnates, etc.) you're seeing around the world. The wise person jealously keeps totems (statues and the likes) serving as remembrance of their ancestors and forebears, so that when they need to connect to those people in times of need, they can do so easily and benefit from such support system offered by them.

But the foolish person either destroys any link to his ancestors and forebears so that he becomes weak, vulnerable and easy prey to charlatans who call themselves pastors and alfas, or he starts regarding the totems as idols (objects of worship) engaging in folly.

Communicating with the dead involves the use of certain waves (similar to radio waves), which are currently unknown to scientists but will be discovered in the coming years. No need to go into the physics and math of these waves here.

If you get some information from your ancestors/forefathers (or any source generally), that doesn't make it the absolute truth. You still need to subject it to tests of scrutiny and logic like I just did with Otem's account of the origin of Africa.

After that, you'll go with what the available evidence and/or logic supports.

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