African Adam: Gnosis or Heresy?
In the second quarter of 2011, the Founder of FeelNubia sat for several hours with Professor Catherine Acholonu, Director of the Catherine Acholonu Research Center, Abuja (CARC), pioneer of research into Africa’s pre-history, stone inscriptions and cave art.
As the editorial team transcribed the 3+ hours of interview, a concern emerged: Professor Acholonu was not on to something, she was on to several things. Her research claims to have found the physical location of Biblical Eden, rock art paying homage to the life of Eve the mother of mankind, the resting place of Noah’s ark, the lost kingdom of Atlantis… in other words, the keys to all of humanity’s mysteries except for the Bermuda Triangle. Were Acholonu’s claims too good to be true? An Editorial board meeting was called to resolve the dilemma about if and how to publish the interview, just as independent research turned up the fact that Professor Acholonu had drawn on several disciplines in her research: all the way from linguistics and anthropology to mysticism and quantum physics. The Board advised that the interview be held back in its entirety, until now.
Anyone reading Professor Acholonu’s work is bound to feel like the audience who first heard Pythagoras allude to the earth being round and not flat. Is it possible that one body of research could be the ‘missing link’ to all of humanity’s most asked questions? Could a single person have the answer to the origin of mankind, race relations, lost civilizations and ancient migration patterns that explain the history of continents and people? How can a person born a few decades ago have an instinctive knowledge of things that took place at a time when the continents were one? Reading through Professor Acholonu’s Trilogy: The Gram Code of African Adam (Published in 2005), They lived before Adam (Winner of the US International Book Awards 2009 in the Multi-cultural non-fiction category) and the last of the three books: The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam: Unearthing Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu – The celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India (Published in 2010), one is at once astounded at the discoveries claimed and amazed at the simplicity of the inferences made. Could it be all so simple? How come no one has seen it before now?
According to the transcripts of the interview, Professor Acholonu attributes her ability to discover mysteries hidden before time to a simple prayer. She asked God for wisdom and guidance to discover hidden things. She believes God divinely led her in her quest such that she was able to find the right people such as the Asian IT expert who would be invaluable to her effort to decipher the symbols and scripts on the Ikom Monoliths, creating a database with which she has now successfully deciphered innumerable rock art engravings from European sites in Ireland and Germany among others. According to Acholonu, these inscriptions were written by the same people who inscribed the Ikom Monoliths – the undated rocks bearing Nchibidi writings attributed to the dwarfs:’ the first people’ of the delta area of western Africa in south-south Nigeria, who emerged from a subterranean civilization and spoke of a city under the sea (Atlantis). Acholonu’s team cross-referenced ancient Sumerian and Akkadian scripts, delved into mysticism and according to her while visiting the ancient Osun groves in Nigeria, she had a dream in which she was handed a ‘Book of Books’ by an ancient woman. She later speaks of a She-God and in the prologue of one of her books, Acholonu paid homage to Igbo and Sumerian gods attributing her discoveries to them. The question remains: Is Acholonu a heretic or a Saint, a genius or a maniac and what will humanity think of her work 20, 50 or 100 years from now?
