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Title Question: Who were the original inhabitants of the Nile valley, and where are they

now?

The great dispersion of the Nile valley Africans

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Sub question: How did Africans originally get to the Nile valley?

Spread of Humanity

Expanse of the Sahara

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Spread of humanity

Humanity began

in the great lakes

region.

Northern flow of 

the Nile.

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The climate of the Sahara has been highly variable over the millennia and we have been able to provide much more specific dating of these changes, over the last 10,000 years, there have been two distinct humid phases, separated by an interval of highly variable but

generally drying conditions between roughly 8,000 and 7,000 years ago. Another drying trend took place after about 5,000 years ago,

leading to today¶s parched environment.

-Scientific America Magazine

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Sub question: What caused migrations away

from the Nile Valley?

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Sub question: What are some civilizations that rose

after the fall of Kemet(ancient Egypt), and dispersion of 

Nile Valley Africans?

Ghana

Mali

Songhai

 Ashanti

Bakuba

Zulu

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Coastal-West Africa Thomas E Bowdich, a member of a British

mission, who was sent to Kumasi in 1817

happened to be the first modern historian to

research into Akan history He compared the

laws and customs of the Abyssinians,

 Ashantis, and ancient Egyptians and

concluded in a pamphlet he published in

paris in 1821 that "most of the higher 

classes of the Ashantis were descended

from the eastern Ethiopians who had been

improved by an intercourse with Egyptian

emigrants and colonists".

 Akan oral history

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Sub question: what are some cultural similarities

between Africans.

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Central-East Africa

Tutsi - The name of the ethnic

group.

Watutsi - One Tutsi (Wa means

'one' also in Ancient Egyptian.)

Mututsi - Means the same as

Watutsi.

Batutsi - Means the Tutsi people

as a whole. (Bah means 'men,

people' in Ancient Egyptian.)

Watusi - A breed of cattle.

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Niger River Africans (Igbo

People) In 1935 an archaelogical

team studied the Nsude

pyramids.

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Niger River Africans (Yoruba

People)

1. Wu (rise) Wu (rise)

2. Ausar (Osiris, father of the gods) Ausa (father)

3. Ere (python/ Serpent) Ere (Python / Serpent)

4. Horise (a great god) Orise (a great god)

5. Sen (group of worshippers) Sen ( to worship)

6. Ged (to chant0 Igede (a chant)

7. Ta (sell / offer) Ta (sell/offer)

8. Sueg (a fool) Suegbe (a fool)

9. On ( living person) One ( living person)

10. Kum (a club) Kumo( a club)

11. Enru (fear / terrible) Eru (fear / terrible

12. Kun / qun (brave man) Ekun (title of a brave man)

13. Win (to be) Wino (to be)

83 Omitjener (deep water) Omijen (deep water)

85 Ta (land) Ita (land junction)

87 Ro (talk) Ro (to think)

94 Kom (complete) Kon (complete)

95 Edjo (cobra) Edjo (cobra)

96 Didi (red fruit) Diden (red)

97 Ba (soul) Oba (king) soul of a people

98 Ke (hill) Oke( hill

99 Anubis (evil deity) Onubi (evil person)

100 Kan (one: Middle Egyptian) Okan one)

101 Nam (water god) Inama (water god)

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 Africans are a part of a dispersed Monolithic

culture.