Tracing Africa’s History and its ancient heathenistic beliefs
Genealogically Africans are the descendants of Ham, Noah’s second son. However, they were called Africans by the European colonial masters because of their curly type of hair which is indigenous to them. The Greeks and Romans used to call the native African people Ethiopians, which is a Greek word for black skinned people. This was not referring to the small country called Ethiopia, but to the whole of Africa. According to Psalm 105:23, 26-27 we read, “Israel also came and settled in Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham”.
*1.The name Egypt was actually coined by the Hebrews to represent the land occupied by the Mizramites, the children of the second born of Ham. It was actually a descriptive word for a land with two types of soil and that is, the rich black soil found along the river Nile and the reddish soil found as you move away from the river. It is worth noting that the name Egypt was not used to represent the small portion of land as seen on the map but the whole continent of Africa. However, this was the area of concentration for Africans as they would later disperse from this area to fill the
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No wonder why we read in Exodus 7:15 that Moses and Aaron were commanded to go and meet Pharaoh at the river bank; for it was his custom to go and pay homage to the water spirits in the river Nile in the mornings. In fact, the whole of the Egyptian kingdom was under the control of Leviathan, a seven headed sea monster that empowered Pharaoh! (Read more about this in chapter 7). You see the reason why Pharaoh responded, (when he was told to let the Hebrews go) “Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go”, is