Cow are the similarities between ancient Egypt and Black Africa explained? To what extent are the influences of the Sahelian cradle shared on the one hand, and of the Egypt of the Pharaohs, on the other hand? West African oral traditions nevertheless ignore the Sahara and designate the Nile valley (Korotomou ba of the Mande, Heli and Yoyo traditions among the Peuls), as the region of origin of several peoples of West Africa.
This book, a logical follow-up to From the Egyptian Origin of the Fulani, focuses the problematic of relations between ancient Egypt and Africa on the whole that constitutes West Africa and presents in this field of capital convergences. previously unseen. The question of Negro-African cultural unity thus rests: are the multiple similarities between Egypt and Black Africa explained solely by a common Saharan cradle, dislocated before the outbreak of the Pharaonic civilization, and late and indirect influences of the land of the pharaohs on the rest of the continent? It is this pattern which, despite its obvious shortcomings, is preferred by many specialists from various disciplines and affiliations. Yet Negro-African oral traditions ignore the Sahara and insistently designate the Nile valley as the region of origin of many populations now living in the western extremity of Africa. Today, thanks to them, it is established in this book that Korotoumou ba (the river of Korotoumou) and the “Big Water” of the Mande traditions, as well as Heli and Yooyo, the mythical country of the Peuls, undoubtedly refer to the valley. of the Nile. But in an even more striking way, they make it possible to identify with precision the origins of the first great state of West Africa, Ghana: those of the Soninkés, corroborated by data from Egyptology and West African archeology. , now allow us to state with certainty that it was not the neolithic people of Dhar Tichitt who were the founders, as some have argued so far, but the elements of one of the very first waves of migration that fled from the Persian invasion of the great Negro-African metropolis.