The Africans Who Wrote the Bible (Paperback)

~ Nana Banchie Darkwah (Author) "Before I discuss the African heritage of the people of the Bible, there is an important question to which I would like to draw readers'..." (more)
Key Phrases: lying lore, theosophical documents, black tribal groups, Ancient Egypt, Christian Europe, Old Testament (more...)

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"... provides the answers and evidence to the questions I have suspected and asked myself about my faith as a Christian." -- Dr. Joyce Sligh, Riverdale, GA

"This book is a thesis for another Reformation in Christianity." -- Dr. Patricia McGraw, Little Rock

"This book reveals secrets I never thought existed behind my Christian faith. Every Christian must read to understand his faith." -- Reader Respose e-mail to author, Dec. 2000

Product Description

This book contains the most fascinating revelations ever made about the Bible and the people of the Bible in the past two thousand years. Did you know that Jews originated from black African tribes? Did you know that Jesus and the people of the Bible were black people? Did you know that the names of authors of the Old Testament are African tribal names? Did you know that modern Jews still carry tribal names. Did you know that the word Israel is an African word? These are some of the ancient secrets this book reveals to readers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 327 pages
• Publisher: Aduana Publishing Company (August 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097019000X
• ISBN-13: 978-0970190000
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #627,660 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed Excellence, March 1, 2007

By	Bonam Pak (Berlin) - See all my reviews

This book is about the early inhabitation of black Africans in North Africa, (including) the so-called Middle East and actually southern Asia as far as China. Creating all of the "world religions", not only the monotheistic ones, but also e.g. Buddhism. It is about the Jews/Hebrews originally having been black-skinned, and therefore all of the important characters and authors of the bible. The author shows how Christianity/Judaism was created along ancient Egyptian religion and sets the record straight about some false assumptions of Western egyptologists, e.g. concerning the pharao Akhenaten (or Akenten). He claims a strong relationship between the ancient Egyptians and Western Africans who live in Ghana today, most of all the Akan. The book is also about the fakings of the religion and their own origin of the early Jews and the Vatican some centuries later, the latter of which especially designed the mass slavery of blacks for the purpose of concealing the origin of the bible.

For all of that, the book deserves full points and some bonus points. However, some subtractions have to be made.

For one thing, the writing is the absolute epitomy of repetetive writing I dearly hope to never have to be exposed to in my natural lifetime ever again. In fact, I had to tame my adrenalin gland because of that, while reading some sentences a couple of hundreds of times. The book could easily get digested to much less than a fourth without any sentence, let alone content getting lost. However, I am aware that in some African cultures this may be the normal way of writing, so ok...

There are minor inaccuracies. Linguistically, for example, the German last name "Bauer" would not be translated by any German as "builder", but as "farmer". (An easy mistake to make for non-German speakers.) Also, Germany did not have to give up its colony of Togo after WWII, but during WWI.

Using genetic science in his reasoning, the author should have known that there are absolutely no races among humans. Some wrong assumptions, also related ones, are derived in this book from that lack of overstanding. Being a historian he may have known that the concept of a "nation", as some of us believe in it today is little more than two centuries old or less, most certainly it did not exist in ancient times. Researching ancient religious concepts of gender, he might have cross-checked that with modern (yet largely censored) information, coming to the conclusion that different genders do not exist either. That would have been necessary to better overstand the respective ancient African knowledge/religious concept about that. Also, of course, religion did exist well before the ancient Egyptians, way back into the stone age, so it is daring to aver, the ancient Egyptians invented religion. And no matter wether it is true that the ancient Egyptians left Egypt to become the Akan and other West Africans (or wether there exists a relationship between the two groups, BEFORE splitting and one half of them actually BECOMING the ancient Egyptians), most certainly it is ridiculous to claim, the ancient black Egyptians became "the Africans" as in ALL of them. For example genetics should have shown the author that the so-called San (and so-called Mbutis) are the original humans. And of course, Africa was inhabitated before the black Egyptians moved to whereever.

The author's general claims are convincing, however, some of his specific conclusions are occasionally a bit of a fishing. Others are theories, in need to get scientifically proven. Which is not to say that the author is generally wrong about that what is mentioned above in the content paragraph. On the contrary, that's why the book still got almost full points despite its flaws. In fact, this book is one of the very most important ones to have been written around the turn of the millennium. No religious person of almost any branch of religion on this planet should miss it, most certainly no RastafarI, as I am one: There will be some surprises for RastafarI, confirming and challenging ones, all absolutely necessary to know and to grow spiritually. For example that "Jah" is the FEMALE version of God called "Jahwe", the male version, at other places. So much for the patriarchy of the more orthodox previous Rasta generations.

Some information I missed in the book. For example about the sign of life on the cover. Though mentioned and named and also mentioned that the Christian cross is derived from it, it would have been absolutely worth it to explain the different parts of its symbolism. (Which I did with other sources and I can only recommend the reader to do this and draw the conclusion, why the Vatican changed it, not only for concealing the origin of Christian religion, but also to conceal the before mentioned gender concept.) Also, I assume Ethiopia plays a larger role in all of that than merely getting mentioned.

I hope this book will be followed up by other books enlightening the original religion, which became Christianity and the other world religions, because clearly, Western egyptologists have largely butchered any overstanding of it and this book merely scrapes off the surface in this respect.

51 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AFRICA -Home of the original Hebrews wich got their beggining from a land called Egypt., June 15, 2005

By	Richard J. Godbolt (Willingboro,Place of Rebirth) - See all my reviews

Dr. Darkwah wrote a good book, but all reading this should know there are other books on this topic as well. For this, one should check Hebrewism in West Africa. Any way, Darkwah had a good book, and showed the African presence in Egypt as well as among the Afrim( as he would say)or Jews. I have talked to people from Ghana that live in the United States, and they told me everything that Darkwah has said in this book is almost common knowledge in West Africa. I have even met people with names that Darkwah has mentioned. At first glance, anyone that is not willing to do the research will just excuse this book as crap but if you do your research you'll see that Egypt,the Afrim or Jews,and West Africans all have one thing in common, the same anscestors.


I have decided to revisite this review based on the article written under the topic "Affirmative Action for the Bible."This reviewer denies that Hebrewism is from Egypt so in this next paragraph I will destroy him.


First off it should be said by, Biblical chronology and this book, that Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and yes Jesus all wen't to EGYPT. The Old Testament was written at the Library of Alexander from old papyrus texts in EGYPT. The story of creation can be found in the deity Khnum in Egypt. Issac name in Egyptian(Ysach) means Ys-place, Ach-of offerings to the sun god Ra. If you recall Issac was going to be a sacrice. Noah was Nuak, and in Egyptian Mythology Nu was equal with the waters. Also Isreal is YSRAIL. In Egyptian Ys-place Ra-sun god Il-creation. So this very name already means place of Ra's creation. For verification on this information read African presence in Early Aisa(Ivan Van Sertima/Runoka Rashidi) Also you sould know, monotheism predated Moses with Akhenaton of Egypt, and Zoroaster of Babylon. The first flood stories were of that in Egypt with Ra and Hathor, and in Babylon with Utnapishtim and Gilgamesh. The story of Jacob the Dreamer is an old tale in Egyptian Hyrogliphics. Even with this Jesus is predated in the orchestration of his Bibical life first by Osiris, Horus, and Isis, and then by 16 counterparts(for more on that read 16 Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves)

In the End both Faith and Love are Blind.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Africans Who Wrote The Bible, June 6, 2001

By	Harold Springer (Fort Worth, Texas by way of Little Rock, Arkansas) - See all my reviews

Wonderfully written, thought provoking, and a must read. If your spirit has been lacking due to the voids that we often have in our lives, this book provides a means of setting it free. The common link to humanity can be found in it's content. Everyone needs and deserves to have "truth", and an open mind will allow this book to speak to the very essence of your being. Knowledge is power, understanding that knowledge opens everyone up to wonders that exist within this world, and the woners that existed before. Many people have a conflict with the Bible and it's contents, and every avenue I had taken left me desiring more truth about the Bible and how it came to be. I've found this book to be enlightening to say the least, and life changing to sum it up. Thank you for the many references that support your writing Dr. Darkwah, I look forward to your next book(s) in the future, and my life will never be the same. "Now Is The Time...."