Lions, tigers, wolves and liars are both ancient and modern.  Believe it or not, all are born of motherhoods, and have mostly the same DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.)   So, enough already is known about X and Y cell teaming in creation of life, excepting our speculation that human beings are empowered by possession of souls that cannot be scientifically observed or documented.

In the known history of humanity since God only knows, we are inclined to suggest new generations seek to gain knowledge and understanding about the past that yielded them up to now perhaps better understand the question about Jesus: was he sent, or just happened to be born for salvation of the world, “not simply the least of us.” 

What new generations of believers believe about then or now depends a lot as to their sources of beliefs and faiths.  Not all or most people of African heritage in Africa or anywhere else believe or have the same faith, or organized religious beliefs.  Facts are that relatively few are inclined to embrace biblical tales written for and by Tiger and Wolf mindsets in Asia and Europe before and after birth of Jesus.

Jesus of Nazareth was born and lived in a time-line of murderous births of kingdoms and empires such as Rome which vanquished not only civilizations like Carthage and Egypt; but then proceeded to enslave millions of human habitants and capture millions of African lions for entertaining killings in their thousands of arena daily games.  By time the Western Roman Empire collapsed, it had literally depopulated the North African lion population so as to entertain blood-thirsty citizens.   

“Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?”

Colonies in Africa

In the late 1800s, countries in Europe claimed control of lands in Africa. This drawing tries to show how much of Africa was under Britain’s rule. A British leader has one foot in Egypt and the other foot in South Africa.

So, like it or not new youth have always depended upon artists, writers and especially story-tellers to help define their humanity: Believe/Acknowledge/Love of God, Honor generations of ancestral fathers and mothers, and Do goodness to others.

The Art of Anthony Brown

Each have their own means and methods of approach to other lives including lambs such as the artistic White lie by Bernhard Plockhorst depicting Jesus as having Aryan Nordic features and herding White sheep as Christians flocking to Christ.

There is nothing wrong with the artist or picture; but, what is lacking are insufficient generations of African heritage artists committed to artistic and literary messaging for youthful minds not of Caucasian ancestry.

Many potential gifted and talented young minds of African heritage are utterly ignorant about philosophy of life generated by Jesus. How so that so many have hip-hoped away from knowledge and understanding later day believers like Maurice of Numidia, thousands more of Ethiopia and even disciples like Martin Luther King Jr.  

Thus, far too many have been turned off from knowledge and understanding a Philosophy of Life that matters most to salvage and lift them up. Too many do not know how and why many of their known ancestral generations during the Second American Revolution embraced Living Christ beliefs to get up and out of the hell on earth that entrapped them.

                                                                        Generation Tables

Certainly, for gifted and talented African heritage youth, the worse includes suggestions that human life originated in Mesopotamia and even worse that peoples of Africa are the result or descendants of people cursed by God to be bearers of water and hewers of wood for would-be superiors by hook and crook.  Our book was originally designed to contain 10 chapters and about 264 pages, that will now be posted little by little during periodic updates of the website.

This web edition is perhaps our humble attempt to help new artists and writers gain some helpful and useful insight as to matters that existed of possible interest to new generations to tell their own stories, not for glory, but entertainment and goodness sake to help their generation feel better about their own existence as human beings of African heritage.

“Not to know what happened before one was born is to remain a child.” [Cicero:De Oratore XXXIV].  Ignorance is not a virtue.          

We honor past generations of gifted and talented artists and writers who in their own centuries pursuant knowledge sought to research and learn more about Africa in determining what happened before they were born.  Who cares to know more?  

So, where did the gifted and talented of African heritage begin when free to do so?  Where did 20th and 21st centuries scholarly seekers of knowledge go, and what was seen and heard in whose language? 

Young scholars like Augustus Casely-Heyford were perhaps born to be offspring of their ancestral kinsmen like:

J. E. Casely Hayford

National Museum of African Art

The following is a table displaying the number of speakers of given languages within Africa:

Language	Family	Native speakers (L1)	Official status per country
Afrikaans	Indo-European	7,200,000[22]	South Africa
Akan	Niger–Congo	11,000,000[23]	None. Government sponsored language of  Ghana
Amharic	Afroasiatic	21,800,000[24]	Ethiopia
Arabic	Afroasiatic	150,000,000[25] but with separate mutually unintelligible varieties	Algeria,  Chad,  Comoros,  Djibouti,  Egypt,  Eritrea,  Libya,  Mauritania,  Morocco,  Somalia,  Sudan,  Tunisia
Berber	Afroasiatic	56,000,000[26] (estimated) (including separate unintelligible varieties)	Morocco,  Algeria
Chewa	Niger–Congo	9,700,000[27]	Malawi,  Zimbabwe
English	Indo-European	6,500,000[28] (estimated)	see List of territorial entities where English is an official language
French	Indo-European	700,330[29][30] (estimated)	see List of territorial entities where French is an official language
Fulani	Niger–Congo	25,000,000[23]
Gikuyu	Niger–Congo	6,600,000[31]
Hausa	Afroasiatic	34,000,000[32]	Nigeria,  Niger
Igbo	Niger–Congo	18,000,000[33]
Kinyarwanda	Niger–Congo	9,800,000[23]	Rwanda
Kirundi	Niger–Congo	8,800,000[23]	Burundi
Kongo	Niger–Congo	5,600,000[34]	recognised national language of  Angola
Lingala	Niger–Congo	5,500,000[23]	national language of  Democratic Republic of the Congo
Luganda	Niger-Congo	4,130,000[35]	native language of  Uganda
Luo	Nilo-Saharan (probable)	4,200,000[36]
Malagasy	Austronesian	18,000,000[37]	Madagascar
Mauritian Creole	Indo-European	1,135,000[38]	native language of  Mauritius
Mossi	Niger–Congo	7,600,000[23]	Recognised regional language in  Burkina Faso
Ndebele	Niger–Congo	1,090,000[39]	Statutory national language in  South Africa
Northern Sotho	Niger–Congo	4,600,000[40]	South Africa
Oromo	Afroasiatic	26,000,000[23]	Ethiopia
Portuguese	Indo-European	13,700,000[41] (estimated)	Angola,  Cape Verde,  Guinea-Bissau,  Equatorial Guinea,  Mozambique,  São Tomé and Príncipe
Sesotho	Niger–Congo	5,600,000[42]	Lesotho,  South Africa,  Zimbabwe
Shona	Niger–Congo	14,200,000 incl. Manyika, Ndau (2000–2006)[43]	Zimbabwe
Somali	Afroasiatic	16,600,000[44]	Somalia
Spanish	Indo-European	4,101,590[45]	Equatorial Guinea,  Morocco
Swahili	Niger–Congo	15,000,000[46]	official in  Tanzania,  Kenya,  Uganda,  Rwanda national language of  Democratic Republic of Congo
Tigrinya	Afroasiatic	7,000,000[47]	Eritrea
Tshiluba	Niger–Congo	6,300,000[48] (1991)	national language of  Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tswana	Niger–Congo	5,800,000[49]	South Africa,  Botswana
Umbundu	Niger–Congo	6,000,000[50]	recognised national language of  Angola
Xhosa	Niger–Congo	7,600,000[23]	South Africa,  Zimbabwe
Yoruba	Niger–Congo	28,000,000[23]	Nigeria,  Benin
Zulu	Niger–Congo	10,400,000[23]	South Africa

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