The Misiri Legend Explored. A Linguistic Inquiry into the Kalenjiin People's Oral Tradition of Ancient Egyptian Origin - Softcover

Araap Sambu, Kipkoeech

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9966792147 ISBN 13: 9789966792143

Publisher: Univ. of Nairobi Press, 2011

Synopsis

How can a black people, who do not even profess to Islam, claim to have originated from Egypt, which is such an Arabic and Islamic geographical setting? But the Kalenjiin people of Kenya have held on fast to a tradition that their ancestors in antiquity were part of ancient Pharaonic Egypt, which they variously call Tto and Misiri. As unlikely as it may sound, the persistence in keeping this oral tradition alive does not seem to be dying with time and distance from the claimed place of origin. The Misiri Legend Explored: A Linguistic Inquiry into the Kalenjiin People's Oral Tradition of Ancient Egyptian Origin establishes the Kalenjin oral tradition of Misirian origin on the basis of linguistic evidence - a genuine tool which Egyptology scholars and researchers need to have relied on much more to bring greater and more final results to their investigations. Students of ancient Egypt willing to accept that there is an irrational prejudice against the concept of ancient black African ingenuity will upgrade their stock of knowledge regarding ancient Egypt with the numerous discoveries laid out here. They will discover a powerful new tool for their trade in the form of the African languages and cultures that now lie South of the Sahara.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ. of Nairobi Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9966792147
• ISBN 13: 9789966792143
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272