(The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia; 1993)
“I know it truly to be the fact that in the ancient past Ashanti people lived by Jerusalem and removed little by little to live again in Egypt then to here.” — Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II
The word ‘Akan’ or ‘Achan’ in Hebrew means ‘troublesome’ and ‘an Israelite’
The name Yakan comes from the same root and is another word for an Israelite…
Yakan or Jachan was one of seven chief men of the tribe of Gad…
“The Akan people of Ghana result from an ancient southward emigration of Libyo-Berbers, who were cousins to the pre-Hellenic population of Greece [Pelasgians?] from the Sahara desert oasis; and their intermarriage at Timbuctoo with Niger River Negroes. In the eleventh century A.D., they moved still further south to what is now modern Ghana"
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(Robert Graves, ‘The Greek Myths’; 1955)
“Akan culture and civilization is not “Negro-African” in origin, but can be classed, on the whole, as Libyo-Phoenician or Carthaginian”
SOURCE;
(Eva L. E. Meyerowitz, ‘The Akan of Ghana: their ancient beliefs’; 1959)
The initial empire of Ghana was founded by Judean refugees or migrants from Cyrene circa 200 AD…
Earlier migrants as well as other Israelite migrants from Mediterranean Africa also settled in the mountainous area between the coast and Sahara before being pushed out…
They also settled in the oases of the Sahara…
These people are labelled as Proto-Soninke or Mande peoples…
After suffering defeat in the Kitos War 117 A.D. and the Bar Kokhba Revolt 135 A.D., large groups of Israelites began leaving Mediterranean North Africa and settled around the Niger River area…
Based on the sources we have they established the Kingdom of Ghana circa 200 AD…
The First King was Qayamagha…
His line ended circa 750 AD when Dyabe Cisse and the Soninke Clan of Mande began to rule...
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