THE LEBU (Wolof) DESCENDANTS OF THE ANCIENT LEBU (Libyans)Lebu is another name for Phut or the ancient Libyans…
From them came the Lebu Wolof language…
“And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan” — Gen 10:6
“Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers” — Nahum 3:9
Put = Libya
Lubim = Libya
Josephus also says Phut was the founder of Libya…
The ancient name for the ancient Libyan Berbers was Libu or Lebu…
Today, the descendants of these ancient Libu are still known by that ancient name—Lebu.
The study of relevant population movements in this area takes us back to the neolithic period in the Sahara, and particularly to the major geoclimatic event of the desiccation and desertification of this area…
The process, which entered its active
phase in about the fourth millennium before the Christian era, brought about considerable social and historical changes which affected the whole of the continent…
It is now established that the population map of the neolithic Sahara was perceptibly different from the situation following the climatic change, and there are plausible indications of a sedentary majority black population…
The first millennium of the Christian era may have been characterized by the continued existence of black peasant communities as well as entrenched cores among Libyco-Berber and then Berber nomads…
Pressure from these latter set off a gradual southward movement, i.e. to the habitat which the black peoples have largely retained.
SOURCE;
(UNESCO, General History of Africa Volume 3; 1988)
In other words, the population in the Sahara, during the Neolithic (10,000 B.C. - 2200 B.C.) was a so called black population…
Even in the first millennium of the Christian era (1 A.D. - 1000 A.D) the population there was still black…
This black population in the Christian era were Punic people or Carthaginians, descendants of the Canaanites and Israelites, who were supplanted by the Romans, Germanic tribes, and Arabs, and pushed southward into so called sub Saharan Africa…
“It is an irony of history that the main ethnic groups of Senegal probably have their roots in a civilisation older than that of the Europeans who believed they had a 'mission to civilise' their colonial subjects. There is some evidence that they are descended from people who were part of the Pharaonic civilisation of ancient Egypt. The Lébou are believed by some to be the same Lébou who are recorded as being fishing people in the Red Sea and then, later, on the Mediterranean coast of present-day Libya.”
SOURCE;
(Robin Sharp, ‘Senegal A State of Change’; 1994)
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