23/04/2024
Were Hausas The Ancient Egyptians?
As many African tribes use to claim their root from Egypt or claim to be the Ancient Egyptians it's not a New theory to hear about this one as some people consider Hausa as the Ancient Egyptians who rule Egypt for many centuries.
A lot of different theories have been conjured to try to explain the illusive origin and history of the hausa ethnic group of West Africa. But one that has recently caught my attention is the stipulation that hausas may have actually migrated from ancient egypt or they have rule ancient Egypt. for me it sounds like the most plausible, certainly sounds a lot more plausible than the Bayajidda legend which i believe was invented by someone in 18th century, same person responsible for yorubas today thinking they originated from Mecca.
Anyways, for me, especially when it comes to the linguistic similarities, its quite striking, in the first place an afro asiatic language definitely makes more sense if it originated from Egypt. For instance, some curious researchers noticed these similarities between egyptian and hausa words.
"Hausa relationships with ancient egyptians is obvious since the first studies in the beginning of the twentieth century:
Werner Vicychl, 1938 made this relationship certain by making 200 to 300 comparisons with ancient egyptian.
Carleton T. Hodge,1966 , Indianna University wrote on Hausa-Egyptian establishment.
so also Greenberg, Lillias Homburger, Moustapha Gadalla, Skinner.
Mrs Lugard, historian and wife of Nigerian colonial Governor talked about This relation.
The term ” SERECK” which preceded pharaoh’s names is a mis intrepretation of ” SARAKI”, the legendary Serpent in Hausa History and Title of Hausa King till nowadays.
Sereck is somtimes said to be the book of kings, plural for king is “Saraaki” in Hausa."
"what is surprising is that hausa defines exactly words as do ancient egyptian:
The example of Qasr-El – Fara-frah called “white Desert” today in Egypt means litterally the sa