EGYPT AND BRITISH MUSEUM OWE GHANA

Egypt as a country has fascinated the Ancients and as well as the modern inquirer. It was this enthralment that compelled Napoleon Bonaparte to send modern scientists from France during the great expedition to go there and investigate concerning the wisdom of the Ancients. For many years, scientists and the people of the world had thought these intelligent individuals with their meticulous care for things around and their culture had been extinct. Today we know that the descendants of the Ancient Egyptians are not extinct, but alive and well, most of them dwelling in the coastal plains and the hinterland Ghana.

When I as a curious person have just read the preface of Professor Banchie Darkwah's book, The Africans who Wrote the Bible, published in the year 2000 AD, I decided that without even going through these chapters of this great book of his, I shall investigate for myself how certain Akan words and Ancient Egyptians words resemble one another. Here are the results of my comparisons. Though I am not an expert on Linguistic as Professor Banchie Darkwah, but a common layman in terms of the knowledge of the brain and how it works, I have been able to identify similar words and names found among the present-day Akan people of Ghana. This is quiet amazing, and could immediately prove or shed light as to the origin of the Akans or the fact that they were indeed the same Ancient Egyptians. The story about the Akans first appearance in the Bible could be found in Genesis 36:25, 26, when the Patriarch's name was mentioned as among the people living in the region prior to the arrival of Jacob and his children.

This work should not be taken as a whole truth unless the interesting reader or scholar has read the professor's work, which can be bought on line in the Amazon.com and other international bookshops in the world.

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AKANS OF GHANA
Nectanebo II NetaneboƆ

Wahibre Wanibre

Tjahapimu shehapemu

Osorkon I Osokon, Osonokon, Osorokon

Meryre (Queen mother) Meyere (my wife)

Iniuia (sister) Ninua (sister)

Khaemtore (name) Kwame Tore

Osorkon I Onyakopon (God)

Shosheng I Susheng (town), sunafo

Karomama (name) Nkrummah, Adommah, Adomadu

Kamose (name) Koo Mosi (Name)

Khamerenebty Kwame Kyerematen

Sahure (king) Sahene (King)

Titi (King) Tutu (king), Titi so

Were-Imtes Weremante, Wereko

Pepi I (King) Pobi (Name)

Nankhpepi Nanko Pobi

Moses Yaw Mosi (name)

Ramses Kofi Tomise/Ramise

Narfetiti Nafe Tutu, Tifi, Asuotifi, Abetifi

Min Obeng, Beng, Ming, Enin

Menes Benneh, Meneh

Narmer Naama, Naa Mireku

Osiris Osoro, ofiri, osere

Nebetta Kwasi Buta, Nsutta, Nsutamu

Nebsen Kwansen

Buto Buto (cook)

Udjo Hojo (weak)

Nekhem (town) Bechem (kumasi)

Amun (Thebes) Anum (area)

Sanakhte (king) Mante, Sanante, dartey

Nimaethap (name) Nima Ataa

Khaba Kaba (clothes)

Djoser (King) Gyasi, Kusi, Jose

Sneferu Na Ofori

Khafra kafra

Menkaure Menkura, Mentuare, Asutuare

Merenre I Manmre, Mereku,

Meresankh Mere Sankah

Meseehti (Prince) Mese Nti (name, father, uncle Nti)

Tanis (Sphinx) Tano (god)

Meseehti (Prince) Bese, Nti,

Montuhotep II Montu Hotei, Obotei

Mutemwiya Mutim Awia, Mutemmu

Senenmut Sene mmu, Senenabe

Hor-Awibra Ho Awibra, AwiabƆ, Awifo Aba

Thutmose I Tutu Mosi

Ahmose Amusi, Awusi, Kwaku Amusi

Kynebu (tomb) Kyenebua Kodua (King)

Ahmose Nofretari Amusi Nofre Tari, Karikari

Nefertiry Ntiriwaa, Nafe Tiri, Asotire

Tiaa Tia, Tiwaa, Atia

Egizio Egiso (Kumasi)

Nile (nsu) naeye

pyramid pira me (like a sword)

Thebes (area) Te (a) be, Tebi, Tebiaa, Tebubu

Hasheput Hashe potoo, Afahye

Nebka Ne bo ka (angry), Abeka

Hor- Awibra Awibra ho (thief came)

Buto (pottery factory) Bu (break) to (form)

wadjha (name) wagya (father)

Tyu (Name) Tu (uproot), Tutu

Tshsh (name) Hye (burn)

Khasekhemuy (King) Kwesi Kemu, Akwamu

Userkare (name) wose ware, Kwesi Ware (name)

Hathor (name) Ato/Atta/ Arthur

Khafre Kwaa Fre, kofre no

Una Wona (name)

Gjese Gjasi, Gyesen, Gyasikan,Gyakari

Sanakhte sanakete, sankyene, sanaahene

Amenhotep Amenhotei, Kwame Tei, Menhotei

Sahure sawere, sakraman, saben, sahurekohene

sphinx ffinso, offinso,

"Cat, fish" Asamoah

"Crocodile" Odenkyem, Akyem, Denkyira

Min Oboming, mintu, minti

Even at their present abode in the Tropical Rain forest of West Africa, the Akan groups and many other numerous groups that lived in the same vicinity, practice several days mourning of their dead Kings (well revered) and have separate burial grounds for their Kings called Ahenaye/Ahennae. Though these burial grounds do not receive the same care as it used to be due to the hard torrential rainfalls and weather erosion, they are respected and set apart by the people as ancestral holy ground. In the Akyem Begoro, where I hail from in Ghana, I grew up to find similar pyramids built for the ancestral gods where people came for religious healing and counselling. These pyramids had swords put at their tips at the top. Today, these pyramids had been destroyed when people bought those areas and decided to build modern buildings in those areas. The name they had for the place was Brakuneso, where several fetish priests were working to bring health to many traditional people in Begoro, Ghana. Concerning the Akans, no group of people on this present earth spend more time with a dead body than these groups of people. They carried these practices from the Nile valley to later what is known as Mali today. Kingship and the cultural ceremonies around their kings reveal them as the same group that lived in the Ancient Egypt, and later found the Ghana/Akana Empire which lasted over thousand years in the middle belt of Africa. Most of the famous Kings of Ancient Egypt which had presented a mystery to scholars are now revealed through the work of Professor Banchie Darkwah, himself an Akan King in present Ghana.

This revelation indicates that Egypt and many other museums in the world that contain the works and cultural artefacts of Ancient Egyptians, owe the Republic of Ghana for the contributions they have made to the world. The Akan cultural practices, which continue to be preserved in the country, should be guided not only for the Akan people, but also for the world. The world as a whole owes the people of Ghana for its great culture and civilisation it has left in the basin of the Nile Valley.