[1] Cheikh Ata Diop "The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or reality," Published in 1974.
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- ^ This conversation is interesting. I have been researching the historical and etymological origin of the pastoralist communities in Africa for 8 years now. The pastoralist communities in Africa (cow herding) originated in a region in present day northern Sudan which in ancient times was called Kem't. This civilization was annexed and subsequently formed part of the kingdom we now know as Egypt. This community though archeological evidence has been found to have the earliest known domestication of animals such as the cow and the donkey which they utilized for various purposes including transport. Kem't was under Egypt for 500 years and eventually broke free and begun the kingdom called Kush in the same area. Kush existed about 3000 - 4000 years ago or so. This community eventually as the Sahara desert begun to expand and changes in climate migrated much closer to the nile basin and further south forming kingdoms such as Meroe, Dmt, Axum and several others further south of Africa. It is not clear exactly where these communites originated from prior to Africa however their folk tales say the originated in parts of the middle east. None the less the their cattle and donkey breeds which they first domesticated have been mentioned as Indian breed (it is unclear why). Having travelled to India I took time to research about Indian history and came across the Yadav community who are pastoralists. This struck me and intrigued me to understand more about them. With Hindu language I noticed some similarity with a few nouns and adjectives synonymous with the language spoken by NIlotic community in East Africa and Bantu community in East Africa. Some numerical similarities with the name for 100,000 (lakh) are still the same. For the bantu community the word "Kiki" used to respond to a person making an inquiry or something are still used today with the same meaning. The same is true for the work "Kale" which means "ok" in the bantu community. Back to the Yadav culture I noticed that the ancient Yadav men wore jingles on their ankles on their feet a primary trait among the pastoral communities in Africa. The same kind exactly in appearance. They also used a drum which is rather cylindrical and this same kind of drum is still used among some of the pastoral communites in East Africa. I also noticed a feature that is considered a trade mark of people from pastoral communities in Africa which is height. A variation of height tends to be much more common among members of the pastoral communities in Africa and it is more common to find 6 feet and taller among them than is common among other non pastoral communities (perhaps due to inbreeding). Members of the pastoral communities have a longstanding trait of prominence and military culture and might. Their names often were synonymous with military prowess. Non the less I believe there is some truth to the assertion that Yadav community may have been founded by migrants from Africa. And that they form a part of the long chain of pastoral peoples who form what we know now as the Kushitic community in Africa. NB: (We know from ancient historical records that a king of Kush expanded his Kingdom to Kush and it was called Hindu Kush in ancient times). Published in 1974