one worrisome thing
about
Negroland Africa history
is that
seemingly
for the most part
it is not
written down
or
documented
or
stored in a manner that makes empirical access to it non-cubersome
and makes empirical assay of it straightforward and direct
at least as far as i can tell
as/because
although
some Negroland Africa tribes show
historical examples of
writing
and
passing across information via hand-crafted symbols
e.g
the nsibidi script of the igbo tribe / igbo nation
it would seem that
by and large
information
about
activities in Negroland Africa
from one generation to another
.. dating back to the beginning of time ..
are passed on
by
oral means / oral folk lore
and this approach
self-evidently
has it’s challenges
e.g
(1) memory is not infallible.
thus
for example
MR. A who hears the history / story of his ancestry
from
his paternal grandfather
may
forget some key items of that history
and
thus omit them / be unable to pass them on
when passing on
family genealogy history
i.e
the history / story of the family ancestry
to
his children and grandchildren
(2) folks have
their own
idiosyncrasies and personal predispositions.
and
this sometimes affects
the veracity
of the content
they pass on
to their children and grandchildren
as the true history of their family / ancestry.
e.g
a fellow who is
by nature
a thief
and
a dishonest fellow
may
tell the children and grandchildren
that
some acres of land in the village
belongs to them
as their ancestors owned them
and
ownership of land
passes down
via
ancestral lineage
in their community
WHEN IN ACTUAL FACT
that
lying family history teller / history repository
knows full well that
the lands he is telling lies about
NEVER EVER BELONGED TO THEIR FAMILY.
(3) usually
such
oral passing on of history
often
necessarily
RESTRICTS ITSELF TO
happenstances
pertaining directly
( .. and sometimes indirectly .. )
to
THEIR OWN FAMILY
and
often ignores
or
does not give account of
developments / happenstances
concerning
the ENTIRE TRIBE / the ENTIRE NATION
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