Afrikan Genesis: Amazing Stories of Man's Beginnings

by Ishakamusa Barashango

Explores ancient Kushite creation stories and relates these tales of the beginning of man's life on Earth to the current black experience.

230 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Sidney Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Barashango gives a good breakdown of African Cosmology and the negative Eurocentric epithets against it. He proposes with the consensus of Afrocentric scholarship which he profusely quotes throughout this book, that the source and seed people and culture from the out of Africa migrations has its origin and source in the Nile River Valley where the oldest evidence of human evolvement and culture is said to exist. He provides evidences of the expansion of the early Cushite migration to the far east to the Hindu Cush in the Asian subcontinent and the far West to the pre-Mayan Americas. The similarities lie fundamentally in their Creator God concept as a feminine ideology in a cultural matriarchy and monogamy that was rooted in African cosmogony as opposed to the Creator God concept as a masculine sexist ideology in a cultural patriarchy and polygamy rooted in Aryan cosmogony.

Instead of demonizing other religions and faith beliefs, he shows how their faith traditions and beliefs are rooted in African spirituality as its original source. He brings out things that any Jewish scholar would know such as the Hebrew scriptures are a redacted text compiled by Ezra and the Jewish Persian and Babylonian scholars ca. 5th century BCE. It explains from a Jewish view the source of human creation, making it the youngest rendition of creation stories in the human record. The Jewish creation story is not original or unique. The original story of the creation myth has its source in pre-Kemetic central Afican culture.

The book despite its heavy concepts is an easy read and would be enjoyed by anyone whose African and World consciousness is beginning to awake.

[Ebony · Rating 5 out of 5]

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