Scholars: Human-being Forefather Walked from Sudan to the Rest of the World
15 November, 2016KHARTOUM (Sudanow.info.sd) - It is no longer a question of satisfying a national ego. It is now science and facts. Of course every nation likes to say they were the roc-bed for humanity, the cream and the yeast of mankind.
However, this is not so in the case of the lecture delivered by Professor Muntasir al-Tayeb Ibrahim. Muntasir, a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Khartoum, tells what microbiology does best: the language of the genes and genomes: human genome, dating back to hundreds of thousands of years show all human race goes back to the areas of east Africa, to the area known as “The Sudan.”
Tracing the origin of human race ( to avoid using the scientific jargon for the moment) scholars who studied the very basic cell-the smallest living thing that carry the characteristic of the material in question- say they believed the first truly human being were first found in this area.
Those highly specialized scholars, according to Professor Muntasir, have found three interesting elements worldwide:
- First: all basic diseases –virus according to virology science- go back to one area: The Sudan. All inherited diseases, that is diseases like diabetics (when the body produces too much sugar with little insulin coming out of the pancreas to handle it), hypertension (when the blood vessels become too small for the rush of the blood), and cancers (when the cell that reproduces itself regularly and harmoniously, gets disoriented all of a sudden and starts reproducing itself randomly and irrationally so to speak), so all these diseases have one element in common: when traced back to their origin, they go to one area. That is if you trace their history-very ancient history- from where they come, if you could reach the prototypes, then you have their origin!! Now scholars are saying that the area that has the most “pulse” when they trace these genes, go back to the Sudan. Sudan, the scholar cautious you gently, is the area that extends from Eastern Ethiopia to Lake Chad, and particularly the area that is west of the River Nile in today’s Sudan.
The work of this type is of course carried out in highly specialized and verifiable laboratories. Now these labs could –with a tiny small of material taken from a bone or a fossil tell you its exact age from one to millions of years.
Based on the work of such labs, the scientific facts cited by Professor Muntasir are straight forwards and simple, the area you have more pulses where all genome tend to go back, then this was the original area for that element, in this case man.
- Second: All particular genes found in all female- taken from the placentas of over a hundred women from around the world (1989) indicated one thing: they go back to the same area, the grandmother of mankind, Eve, come back to Africa and more specifically to the region that extends from the Ethiopian plateau in the east to Lake Chad in the west. The origin of the Mitochondria. Not only that but all genes that characterize the human male, the grand grandfather of mankind, Adam, goes back to the same region. Scholars are not talking about Homo-erectus- Latin for standing man- , or Homohabilis – also Latin for the smart man that used his hands adroitly. No they are talking about Homo-sapiens. This is the man that not only stood on his feet, or the man who was intelligent enough to use tools, but a man who made tools and made choices as to what to eat, live and intermarry and man that used language and record his activities like drawings in the caves: it is a man of culture.
His predecessors used to have tools and how to use them and pass them to next generation. But this was a trait found in upper primates like the chimpanzees as well. Then what differences was there in the man in this region?
The answer is: culture, language, and drawing. Drawing used to represent source of living, hunting, then it developed and represented history of hunting, history of the migration of the animals that were in the area. Then it went up to what we now call divinity; the first things that man started to worship. Man of course started worshiping what he feared most: nature.
Nature started with animals, sun, moon, thunderbolt, rains, etc. all these were represented in drawing. And when all of the northern hemispheres, the northern half of the earth was inundated with snow, and when the southern hemisphere was covered with inhabitable forests and killer insects, the area south of the Sahara and north of the Equatorial was habitable. It was here that man developed drawing, domesticating animals and worshiping. It was from here that man scattered in waves of migrations to the rest of the world. From China, India to the man in Norway, they stemmed from Africa, more specifically this area of Africa.
Let me give you one example: you believe it or not when scientists discovered that the same genes that are found in the Fulani-the cattle growing people in Africa- are the same that are found in people in white-haired blue eyed, ghost white skin Norwegians. Their genes all comes back to this same belt south of the Sahara, north of Equatorial area, in the Sudan belt.
- Third: the first animals to ever be domesticated: Dogs and donkeys (or is it donkies!) were domesticated in this region of eastern Sudan. That means this is the most ancient area in the world that saw domestication of animals. It simply means if the inhabitants were not ancient, then you couldn’t have oldest domesticated animals of the world here.
Again researchers noticed that the only original gene that never changed, meaning never polluted, is found in eastern Sudan’s ethnic group of the Beja. Thus you have the oldest domesticated animals go hand in hand with the most ancient people, from the stand point of the chain of gene that never was polluted.
Again going along the same lines, the oldest human mummies found in the region, are those found in Ethiopia, Grandmother Sally and in Sinja, central eastern Sudan, the Sinja man.
-Other interesting elements: the basic blood group (O+tive) is found here in this region. O, which refers to zero, are predominant in this area. It is the basic blood type. They call it the generous type, because it is the original, the forefather, it could be donated to any other types of blood group, B, H, BH or whatever combination there are. But it takes only from O group: this is what fathers and patent do to siblings.
- Scientists also found that chromosome A is dominant and prevailing in this region, mostly in the Nile and Darfur ethnic groups in the Sudan.
- On the analysis of the DNA of dogs, specialists found the dogs in Kerma, in today’s northern Sudan region, have the oldest genes ever.
- Furthermore the scientists have found that 60% of the heritage diversity is found in eastern Sudan.
The lecture was delivered at the first Forum to be organized by the Sudan News Agency Encyclopedia, Sudapedia for short, last Thursday and was attended by a host of scholars and scientists and researchers in history, archeology and science, including the emeritus professor Yusuf Fadul and Professor Ahmed Elias.
Professor Muntasir said scientific evidence shows that the genome in East Africa region, the desert area West of the Nile and in Kordufan and Darfur, stand out as the most ancient in human genome, saying the genome actually preserves the unwritten history of mankind.
He said modern epoch which dated back to over ten thousand years, was the epoch of agriculture, reaffirming that this transition in humane origin started in the Sudan and was related to domesticated animal such as dog and donkey which were discovered to have their origin in Eastern Sudan area.
Professor Muntasir has added that scientists have recently discovered, following numerous studies, that gene genome is the only genome that is characterized by genetic diversity. He said these studies were initiative back in 1986 by a number of scholars including Luca who aged over ninety years now.
The forum was addressed on the outset by the Director General of the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) Awad Jadain who underlined the importance of Sudapedia, Sudan’s Encyclopedia, in providing the evidence and showing Sudan’s historical rights through publication of genuine, scientific and authentic information about the history of the country.
He said this forum was the overture for numerous forums that will organized at the venue of Sudapedia. He underlined that this encyclopedia would publish only the factual, true, genuine, scientific and scholarly information about the Sudan.
Professor Muntasir has supplied this scientific evidence, using to this end, scientific jargon, showing that the Sudan was the origin of mankind. But in this summary we avoided that language but the full text and the video of the lecture is available at the Sudapedia website.
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