07/08/2020
Africa has the world’s oldest and largest written languages known to mankind. A long ancient history of written languages and graphics history, which is today part of a broader global history of literacy. The continent has contributed substantially to the global history of written languages of today, which has largely been ignored. 🗑
Ancient African writing is the oldest system of writing in the world, pre-dating European Greek, by at least 2000 years. 📏
The oldest written scripts ever discovered are what called Proto Saharan, found by the Kharga oasis in what was known as Nubia in present day Sudan, so called by archaeologists. It dates from about 5000BC. Greek was not fully in use until 1400BC and Asian languages until 3000BC. African languages are several centuries older than Asian written forms. 📈
Examples of ancient writing in Africa are the; Ge’ez script of Ethiopia, the most ancient African script still in use; The Nsibidi of Nigeria; Aire Soroba of Mali; and many others. These languages were very well developed and highly sophisticated and were often used by priests and secret societies.✏
The dominance of colonialism and European languages, taught that Africa had no written languages, that African civilization was inferior, less refined, amongst other things, until they, the Europeans arrived on our shores; this is far from the truth.🏞
Africa has the world’s oldest and largest collection of written languages, known to man! This also goes to dispel the notion that Africa was uncivilised or barbaric before the Westerners came.🗿
Men and women of wisdom and true intelligence, will always seek to know about their past and use what they have found to achieve growth as a people.🔑
We had a well developed ancient medical, social, political, economic, cultural and traditional systems, our ceremonies, festivals, markets, civilizations, social norms, and history all come alive and are truly exciting, so we should investigate them, but have we dug into and used them?🔍
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