Igbo Israel: The Igbo of Nigeria: Hebrew's of West Africa { So-Called Black Americans Listen Carefully } (263 hits)
Nice Breakdown by Brother Igbo Biafran.
There were specific African tribes targeted for the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade.
The Igbos, Yoruba(Nigeria), Ashanti (Ghana), Lemba (South Africa) and many other tribes in Africa are Hebrew Israelites.
They remain today as the remnant in the land called AFRICA!
Most slaves that were transported to South & Central Americas were from Gabon, Cameroon, Angola, Congo primarily.
I suggest a very good reference book that I have read from beginning to the end.
"Hebrewisms of West Africa" by Joseph J. Williams
Here are a few excerpts from the book as follows:
"The Ashanti people of West Africa are descendants of group of people who used to live in an ancient city named Ashan. The "ti" on the end of the name Ashan means "children of", which makes the Ashanti people children of Ashan. This city is first written about by the prophet Joshua in chapter fifteen of his book. Joshua 15 discusses the territory /cities of the kingly tribe of Judah. Verse one says 'This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families...etc.' Joshua goes on to give the borders and boundaries of Judah. Verse 20 says 'This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.' From this point Joshua begins to name the families that make up the kingly tribe of Judah. In verse 42 the city of Ashan is listed as one of the families.
The people of Ashan left Israel between the years 70 and 135 C.E. to escape Roman persecution. The children of Ashan traveled south-west across the Egyptian desert (i.e.. The Sinai) down through Ethiopia and then west across L. Chad, Nigeria and finally settling in the "Gold Coast of West Africa" south of the Upper Volta. Throughout their travels and encounter with other kingdoms the Ashanti people lost various parts of their Judaic faith including the Torah the Prophets and the Holy Writings. When the Ashanti arrived in West Africa all they had left was the oral laws and a few traditions. The Ashanti established a West African Jewish kingdom that stretched from the below the Upper Volta to modern day Angola.
The Ashanti are not the only African tribe of people who share this peculiar history. There is also the Yoruba, Ewe, Bantu, Fulani, the people of the Songhois kingdom and the Ibo of Nigeria as well as many, many more."
Conclusions drawn from HEBREWISMS OF WEST AFRICA Joseph J. Williams This extract was taken from an undisclosed titled paper
"These facts have peculiar significance when the presence of Judaism among American Negroes is to be considered. Hundreds of thousands of slaves were brought to America from this Western Africa during the days of the traffic, beginning nearly four hundred years ago." The author also shares: “How much more of Judaism survived among West African Negroes in that earlier time? As persecuted communities, they were rather more in danger than other Negroes of being raided by war parties and sold as slaves. It may be considered certain that many partially Judaized Negroes were among the slaves in America. How many of them might still hold some Jewish customs in their new is another question."
