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The genetic origins of blacks

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By Simba Jama

IT is now confirmed by genetic science that all existing human beings originated from east Africa.
The earliest human fossils can be found in this area.
Geneticists have acquired DNA markers from populations around the world and made discoveries that debunk theories of evolution and Darwinism.
From this pool of DNA markers, paternal or Y DNA results prove that we all sprang from the loins of one East African man whom they now call Y chromosome A or Adam.
Among all living human beings, the one group with the highest genetic variety and are our living ancestors are the Khoi-San or Bushmen community.
Every human of whatever race on earth will test positive to their genetic marker.
These shot-statured, wooly (kinky)-haired and black-skinned Africans were the earliest group to live in Africa.
From them came the stouter, but still shot-statured Africans known as the Pygmy.
Their Y DNA marker has been identified by geneticists as B and is the second oldest human community after the Khoi-San.
The pool of DNA markers of the world’s inhabitants evidences the travelling of a short-statured African to the area around the Himalaya Mountains around Nepal and Tibet.
From this blackman sprang the Mongolian community located North East and also the Black Fella community located South East in Australia.
The latter are called Aborigines by Europeans, but they prefer to be called ‘Black Fellaz’.
These also have an old genetic marker called Y Chromosome C and they, along with the Mongolians, inherited the short stature of the African who somehow ended up east.
The Tibetans carry a Y chromosome called D and historical, genetic and scriptural evidence suggests the descendants of that same ancestor of the Mongols, Black Fellaz and Tibetans moved west to Mesopotamia around Iraq.
This group, possibly for reasons of adaptation, experienced a notable growth of physical stature and retained its ancestral features of black skin, wooly hair and broad facial features.
The Y DNA marker of this group, which settled in Mesopotamia, is called E.
Because this community came from the area around Tibet, some of them test positive for DE which is called the yap marker.
In Mesopotamia, human sophistication increased mainly because of necessity. Writing began and also the building of cities.
There was a population boom and the human family began to spread out.
Some groups remained in the area around Iraq, Syria and Iran, while others inhabited India.
The group that entered Africa settled around the Sahara area which was still a fertile region and not yet a dessert.
Along the Nile River and across the lands of Sudan, these blacks built pyramids, wrote hieroglyphics, practiced agriculture and developed many tools of civilisation. The same was happening in Mesopotamia and also Far East, but because of agriculture in fertile Egypt, the Egyptian civilisation would prove most sophisticated in that period.
The pyramids were found in many parts of Sudan, besides Egypt, in greater numbers but relatively smaller sizes.
For thousands of years, the world was inhabited only by black people.
After these long periods of time, climatic adaptation and other forms of mutation began to take effect and caused the phenotypes of humans to vary.
The blacks of Africa and the Middle-East would experience minimal changes because they lived more or less in the same region that human beings originated from.
However, populations that had gone Far East, such as the Mongols who had settled deep into the North, would experience the lightening of skin, straightening of hair and increased body hair growth for warmth.
When located a great distance from the sun for extensive time periods, vitamin D which is necessary food for melanin production becomes low and leads to the above stated changes.
Melanin is the compound that causes us to be black and is still found in the Mongols hair and eyes which remain black.
As for the blacks of the South East in Australia, their hair remained kinky, but lost some of its propensity because of lack of water.
It hardly rains in Australia and this made the Black Fellaz relatively darker and their facial features became broader in order to facilitate for effective breathing. This is a known attribute of melanin, to adapt.
Even in a period of a year, a blackman’s skin lightens in winter and also when he travels to colder regions like Europe and stays there for some time.
Now picture living in the cold North over thousands of years.
The blacks of the Sahara, who were called Kemetic (Hamitic), had the Y DNA marker called E1b1a.
This is the marker found on the mummified bodies of the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt.
This same genetic marker is found in most of the Sub-Saharan Africans of today. This is because the original inhabitants of the Sahara area, Egypt included, fled west and south to western, central and southern Africa.
First they fled from overpopulation and then from the infertility of the land that was being caused by rapid desertification in the Sahara.
The blacks of these regions are therefore related and the ones who headed south first settled around the Great Lakes region.
Here there was a population boom which led to some going further south.
These blacks had crops that they used to grow in the Sahara and wanted to settle in places suitable for growing them.
For this reason, many of them chose not to settle in the wet Congo and ended up in places like Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and so on.
In these places, the former Saharan blacks met the Khoi-San who were hunter-gatherers and followed the migration of wild herds seasonally.
The Saharan blacks were called giants because of their greater height and bigger physique.
The Saharan blacks brought with them livestock rearing, cultivation and also the use of metal tools.
The Khoi-San had lived an eco-friendly simple life which they try to maintain to this day and they only used stone and wooden carved tools.
They also did rock paintings.
The blacks of Zimbabwe who came from the Sahara identified each other’s lineages by way of assigning totems which they derived mostly from animals and body parts.
One would be forbidden from eating his totem so as to remember it forever and this seems to be a distinctive characteristic of the formerly Saharan blacks of Zimbabwe.
Around the same period that the south was being settled by the blacks from the Sahara, DNA evidence proves that the same kind of people began to inhabit West Africa.
The ancient kingdoms of Ghana or Songhai were established by these blacks.
There are other blacks who came into Africa by sea travel.
These came from places as far as Persia (Iran) and Sheba (Yemen).
Black descendants of Persians and Arabians can be found on the east coast of Africa around Tanganyika (Tanzania) in large numbers.
Their ancestors built Mosques with minarets (conical towers) like those they had left in the Middle-East islands of Pemba and the coast of Zanzibar which are full of black Arabian descendants who are indistinguishable from Africans.
In Malawi and Mozambique, there are a people from the ancient Yemeni city of Sena and they are called VaSena.
Sena was an ancient city which was between the harbours of Tarim and Sayhut and was inhabited by a Judaic-Arabian community called Sabaeans.
Yemen was called Saba or Sheba and the ancient Sabaeans from Sena, who left Yemen, can be found in Zimbabwe and South Africa under the names Remba and Lemba respectively.
Members of the Remba community are still called MuShavi (Shabi) meaning Sabaean to this day.
They are Afro-Asiatic and have the J DNA marker which is found in Yemen and the eastern Mediterranean coast.
J descended from another branch of E called E1b1b1.
The E1b1b1 marker is Shemitic and geneticists associate it with Hebrew populations, particularly J which is associated with the ancient Israelites.
The Zha dynasty which ruled over West Africa was also from Yemen and was founded by Zha al Yaman.
Africa was peacefully inhabited by these various groups until the coming of the European colonisers whose genetic-origins we shall look at in next week’s article.

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