The Peoples of Classical Kush & Kemet

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The Peoples of Classical Kush & Kemet

Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi,

Ph.D. Public Policy Analysis

“More specifically, Bantu-Kushite/Æthiopians, i.e., Afrikans, are not

composed of thousands of heterogeneous ethno-national groups withdistinctive, mutually exclusive cultural characteristics. A thorough Afrocentricappraisal of the multitude of Bantu-Kushite/Æthiopian Makabila [Kiswahili:Ethnic Groups], their cultures defining social institutions, mores and

customs, leads to the assessment that they are subculture communities,

composite societies that at one time in Global Afrikan history were socialdivisions of a greater Bantu-Kushite/Æthiopian national community, sharinga distinctive linguistic heritage and material and non-material culture.1

In the literature of the Eurasian academic disciplines of Egyptology and

Nubian Studies the peoples of Bantu- , KŠ/Ksh [Kush/Kemet:

Kush], Bantu-Kushite , IW MIRWIWЗ/Iu

Miruiwa [Kush/Kemet: Island of Meroe], Bantu-Kushite ,

KMT/Kemet [Kush/Kemet: Land of the Blacks], Bantu-Kushite

, TЗ NTR/Ta-Netcher [Kush/Kemet: Land of the Gods], Bantu-

Kushite ,

S3WTY XNT MNW TINTD3M/Sauty Khent-Menu Tinet-Djam

[Kush/Kemet: Asyut, Akhmim, District near Denderah: Badarian-Tasian

1 Chancellor Williams, The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race Between 4500 B.C. and 2000

A.D. (Chicago: Third World Press, 1971); Theophile Obenga, “The Genetic Linguistic Relationship Between Egyptian

(Ancient Egyptian and Coptic) and Modern Negro-African Languages,” in UNESCO, The General History of Africa

Studies and Documents 1: The peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script Proceedings of the

Symposium held in Cairo from 28 January to 3 February 1974 (Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization, 1978) pp. 65-72; Raul Diaz Guevara, “Pan-Africanism: A Contorted Delirium or a Pseudo-

nationalist Paradigm? Revivalist Critique,” SAGE Open (April-June 2013) 3 (2): 1 –13,

DOI: 10.1177/2158244013484474; Fergus Sharman, Linguistic Ties between Ancient Egyptian and Bantu:

Uncovering Symbiotic Affinities and Relationships in Vocabulary (Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers, 2014)



Culture], Bantu-Kushite , NBT/Nebt [Kush/Kemet: Ombos,

Naqadah] Bantu-Kushite , T3NHSW/Ta-Nehesu

[Kush/Kemet: Kerma Culture], Bantu-Kushite ,

TMHW/Tjemehu [Kush/Kemet: Peoples southwest of Upper KMT/Kemet],

Bantu-Kushite , THNW/Tjehenu [Kush/Kemet:

Northern/Coastal Libyans , Lehabim, Lubim, R‘BW/Rabu or Rebu ], Bantu-

Kushite , PWNT/Punt, [Kush/Kemet: Horn of Afrika,

East Afrika coastal maritime nation] , T3STY/Ta-Seti

[Kush/Kemet: Land of the Bow], Bantu-Kushite ,

NM3YW/Nemaiu [Kush/Kemet: Land south of PWNT/Punt],

, XNT HN NFR/Khent-Hen-Nefer [Kush/Kemet: Upper Kush, The

Sacred Land of the Forerunners], Bantu-Kushite ,

IRMTYW/Iremetiu [Kush/Kemet: Land southwest of KMT/Kemet], Bantu-

Kushite , IЗM/Yam, [Kush/Kemet: Land west of KMT/Kemet]

and , WЗWЗTYW/Wawatyu

[Kush/Kemet: People of Wawat] were generally ethnically homogenous

nations comprised of Negroid Nubians, and Mediterranean Egyptians andLibyans.

This text however arising from the Global Afrikan Afrocentric field of study ofAfrikology surmises based on an assessment of the traditions of theWahenga na Wahenguzi that all of these nations were Bantu-Kushite

pluralists states comprised of a multitude of Bantu-Kushite Makabila who arethe Wahenga na Wahenguzi Ukoo of the contemporary Bantu-Kushite

Makabila of Afrika inclusive of, but not limited to the Watigrinya, Waoromia,Watigre, Wabeja, Waafar, Wasaho, Wabilen, Wanoba, Wamakorae and

Wanuba, Wakunama, Wanara, Wakalenjin, Wazulu, Wahehe, Wanyakusa,



Wafulani, Wabambara, Wamasai, Wasomali, Wahausa, Waigbo, Wayoruba,

Wabambuti, Waashanti, Wagwari, Wasoto, Wanath, Wagbaya, Wabobo,Wahutu, Watutsi, Waxhosa, Wachewa, Washona, Wachokwe, Wawolof,

Wayao, Wabemba, Wuluba, Walunda, Waluvale, Waakan, Wamandinka,Waserer, Watonga, Wakuranko, Wangombe, Watswana, Wavai, Waloko,

Wakongo, Wandebele, Waswazi, Waphuthi, Wathembu, Wapondo,Wamfengu and Wangoni.”

xcerpt Ambakisye-Okang Olatunde Dukuzumurenyi,

: The Book of the Tep-Heseb An Afrikological Research

Methodology Being An Afrikological Primer in Critical Thinking, CriticalListening, Critical Speaking, Critical Questioning, Critical Writing, CriticalReading & Critical Research In Pursuit of the Re-establishment of an AfrikanNjia towards a Re-construction of Afrikan Spiritual, Cognitive, Affective,Psychomotor Physiological, Social, Cultural, Historical, Political and EconomicReality (University of New Timbuktu System SBЗ/Seba Press, 2016) pp. 92-96.