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Journal Entry 4: The Cairo Museum

Afrikan Builders of Civilization

Hotep (Afrikan kemetic Medu Neter word for Peace),

Ankh, Udja, Seneb (Afrikan kemetic Medu Neter words for Life, Prosperity, Health)!!!

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My Trip to Kemet (Egypt), Africana Studies, and Black Liberation. Yes, family I am in Afrika doing field and educational research about Kemet, (Egypt)-the world’s oldest and greatest documented civilization. I am studying Kemetic history, culture, and spirituality with the Kemet Nu educational tour.

The 2021 Kemet Nu Educational Tour Sponsored by Professors Ashra and Merira Kwesi. They are the legendary teachers of Egyptology (the scientific study on Egyptian history, culture, and spirituality) and history.

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Professors Ashra and MeriRa Kwesi direct the Kemet Nu knowledge of Self Educational tours every summer in Kemet. The word Kemet is the original Afrikan name for Egypt. Unfortunately, the European invaders (i.e. the Greeks and Romans) changed the name of the northeastern part of Afrika to Egypt. Kemet means the land of the Blacks.

The Kemet Nu Knowledge of Self Educational Tours hosts two sessions per summer. This session’s tour is taking place from 7/11/21 to 7/25/21.

Journal Entry 4: Today our field studies and lectures concluded with a visit to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Our purpose is the view the artifacts of ancient Afrikan Kemetic (Egyptian) people. Although we as Black people do not control the curatorial process of Kemet’s artifacts, it is absolutely necessary to see them in a museum. This helps us to look beyond white supremacy’s distortion of Afrikan history, culture, and spirituality. Museums with exhibits on Afrikan history, culture, and spirituality help us piece together the facts about Black people. For example, if you look at my pictures, I posted the actual Kemetic statues of Afrika. If you look closely at my photos, you will see that some of my pictures of Kemet’s statues are missing noses, lips, and sometimes a face. This is due white supremacy and systemic racism. Racist do not want us to know that Kemet was Black civilization. White and Arab hegemony made every attempt to erase Black features and Black faces of Kemetic people.

For example, Napoleon Bonaparte, the former dictator of France in the 1700s and 1800s, became infatuated with Kemet. He believed that his “studies” about Kemet being a white civilization was “true.” In 1798, Napoleon took tens of thousands of Frenchmen and scholars with him to document the greatness of whiteness. But when he got to Kemet, he realized that Kemet was not an ancient white civilization responsible for founding of western civilization. Napoleon discovered that Kemet was a Black civilization influenced European civilization. Enrage at this fact, Napoleon blew off the norse of the Ra Heru Em Akhet (the Europeans and Arabs invaders call this ancient spiritual Afrikan figure- the Sphinx). Napoleon’s racist behavior has been well documented in text, such as Dr. Yosef A. A. ben Jochannan’s Blackman of the Nile and His Family and the L. A. Times. When some you go to Kemet, you will see it the for yourself. There are leftover bullet holes from soldiers that shot at the face of the Sphinx.

Although white supremacist revisionist historians, and their colonized Black scholars, are trying to argue that Napoleon’s actions of blowing the nose off the Sphinx did not happen. That is not true. It did actually happen family. It is all documented.

But I thank the Creator and our Afrikan ancestors that white supremacy could not totally destroy the black features from Kemet’s statues nor the Medu Neter (the Europeans and Arabs invaders call the Medu Neter the hieroglyphics).

At the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, many of Kemet’s statues and Medu Neter display the Afrikan origins of Kemet. The Cairo museum even has the kinky hair of the ancient Kemetic people on display!!!!! KEMET IS MIND BLOWING!!! AND THE ONLY WAY YOU WILL APPRECIATE IT, YOU MUST COME PHYSICALLY TO STUDY KEMET IN AFRIKA.

After leaving the Cairo Museum I had to pack my bags to leave for Upper Kemet in Nubia. I have left Cairo and Giza. I am now in Upper Kemet.

Upper Kemet is located in the south. My new hotel room’s window is located right by the mighty Nile River. The Nile River is the longest river in the world. It is over 4,100 miles long!!! Afrikan people called the Nile-Hapi. But Upper Kemet houses the location of Kemet’s spiritual centers called Ipet Isut (the Europeans and Arabs invaders call it the Temple of Karnak) and Ipet Resyt (the Europeans and Arabs invaders call it the Temple of Luxor). But Ipet Resyt was also called by Afrikan people Waset. It is at Upper Kemet’s spiritual temples that the founder’s of Judaism, Christianity, Al-Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism copied Afrikan faith traditions to form their own religions. Y’all did not hear me!!! Let me say it this way-The major religions of the world literally plagiarized Black people’s spirituality!!!! How do we know this family. It is all recorded in the Medu Neter. The Medu Neter is the oldest recorded written language in the history of world. The history of Kemet’s origins of the world’s religions are written in the Medu Neter in stone!!!!!! It is at Kemet’s spiritual temples that the ideas of monotheism, resurrection, salvation, and human beings possessing a soul were formed.

But I did not come to Kemet to just study her spiritual foundation for the world’s religions. It is in Kemet, I will be studying how Afrikan people are the authors of the world’s system of mathematics, sciences, and the liberal arts. Kemetic schools and spirituality developed the world’s first calendar that we used today. Kemetic people developed astronomy, papyrus (paper), written language, trigonometry, Algebra, agriculture, medicine, theology, architectural engineering, astrology, philosophy, embalming, art, geometry, physics, biology, literature, geography, anatomy, archaeology.

When I am finish with Upper Kemet. This is where Nubia and Abu Simbel (a city by the tip of the Sudan) are located in Afrika. I need to see Kemet’s origin in Southern Kemet.

BY THE WAY, THESE PICTURES ARE NOT PHOTO SHOPPED. THEY ARE FROM MY IPHONE CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!

All of Kweisi’s Arab Professors/guides bore witness on day one that Kemet is the root of the world’s civilizations and religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Al-Islam).

For More information on Ashra Kwesi's annual trip to Kemet can be found in his website at this link: https://www.kemetnu.com/egypt_...

Hotep (Afrikan Kemetic Medu Neter word Peace)!!!

In a word!!!

Duwa (Afrikan Kemetic Medu Neter word for giving thanks) to the Creator and our Afrikan ancestors!!! Right now I am looking out my hotel window at Hapi (Europeans and Arabs call this river the Nile River)!!!!! Kemet (Egypt) is mind blowing!!! No wonder the Masons, the Greeks, Romans, the Europeans, the Arabs, the Asians, the Jews, the Catholics, Moors, the Muslims, the Fraternities, the Sororities, the US Founding Fathers, George Washingtons, and Thomas Jeffersons all studied and plagiarized the wisdom of our Afrikan Kemetic (Egyptian) ancestors!! Kemetic people are truly the triple OGs of the world’s civilizations and religions!!!! It is unfortunate, that white supremacy and systematic racism keeps Black people, and humanity, miseducated about Afrika being the progenitor of the world’s civilizations and religions. MOVING FORWARD, I WILL NOW NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. THE WORLD HAS DRAMATICALLY CHANGE FOR ME!!! I NOW KNOW THE FIRST HAND FACTS ABOUT AFRIKAN HISTORY, CULTURE, AND SPIRITUALITY. AND NOW KNOW WHY WHITE SUPREMACY’ HAS ITS GRIP ON BLACK PEOPLE IN THE US AMD THE WORLD. MY TRIP TO AFRIKA IS BLESSING AND CURSE!!!

In Ma’at

Bashir Muhammad Akinyele

-History and Africana Studies Teacher in Newark, NJ

-ASCAC’s (the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations) Study Group Coordinator for Newark, NJ

New Jersey Representative for ASCAC

(https://ascac.org/)

Shem Hotep (Medu Neter for I go in peace)!

Note: Medu Neter is the original Afrikan written language for Kemetic people (Egyptian people). After Europeans and Arabs invaded Kemet (Egypt), they began to change the name of the Medu Neter to Hieroglyphics.

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