17/04/2017
"Odenkyem du nsuo mu, nso ohome mframa"- Akhan /Twi Proverb. The meaning of this Akan Ebe is that the crocodile(denkem) lives in water but it breathes air. The isiXhosa equivalent is - "Intlonipho kuyiNgwenya" meaning respect is like a crocodile(ingwenya) which respects its nature and inability to breathe under water unlike those(aquatic creatures it lives amongst). In laymen terms and in moral this means that Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnit(Africans) should not imitate or breathe under water(do as the whites and their progeny do)like those people(races) it lives around lest it suffocates and dies.
Respect for ourselves as Black people is connected to our adherence to our culture, spirituality/ religion endowing us with resilience in hardship . Overcoming our suffering as Africans which is systematically imposed on Blacks by Eurocentrism and subject to neo-colonialism has long been linked to our practise of our Ancestral Inherited culture. Improper diets which dominates the food we eat was introduced to us at the Expense OF our traditional culinary Abatuum/ Black/Soul seed food and fruit ,regular proper exercises.
Properly called Smai Tawi~meaning(unity with Smai(Set) also "Life" are expansive poles which actually tunes our Spirits(Egyptian KA, sahu. Akhan peoples call it the OKra or Kra/Nkra ~ function or divine pupose. This Obosom or Ntr(Neteru) resides in the head region what the amaXhosa say "yhi Koro" in stick fighting (fm Kait), meaning soul, black!, food, cow and mound.
NgesiXhosa :~ iKoro okanye"Ka"-Isima phambili esithetha kwindawo yokubanga umNtu okanye into , umzekelo : umSebenzi( the work) "Ka"(of, belonging to). Which in this context is elucidated in the books. KARAKASA: The Origin of the Term "CHAKRA and Nkwa/ANKH The Origin of the Term YOGA(Sanskrit "yewg" bind, join or tie). In isiXhosa we shall term ukuGotywa okanye ukuQhina(Qiniseka ukuQhubeka ukuFunda. ; to be bent, tutored, trained ) co-jointly comparing the terms phonetically, etymologically ( linguistically and cosmologically . This correlation can be further interpreted with the Charcoal hieroglyph(writings of divinity) script "pictogram" correctly called the Medw Ntr in our primordial language, which was also a mascellaneous system and the element CARBON . The Body(Kamit/Egyptian Kht umZimba ngesiXhosa) and Souls( Kamit KwaNtu(Qamata) Egyptian Ba(iNgQondo ) are animated enlivened by the KA as suggested by the hieroglyphics for terms Ba and letter B being both a bird with mans head and a lower leg(sole of foot meets soil/land animating the nervous system/body and further by planting). This should tell us how the Soul, Spirit ground the Body or what many may call "Kemetic Yoga".
The contractive/masculine aspect of Martial Offense and self- defense skills applied in a purely Afrocentric way could curb and eradicate habit causing diseases. This lifestyle including alcohol and drug(including narcotics & OTC medicines)use and abuse de alienates from our religion as Afurakani/ AfuRaitKaitNit(African people).Excerpt from the book Nkwamua~ Whole life journal by Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan
