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G-d and African Jews

We [African Jews] are not driven by any complex, neither superiority nor inferiority, but by a “complex” of equality.
How far can we trace the origins of African Judaism in history and in the Bible? God does not favoritism except for those who fear Him and who practice justice.
Many people and countries are mentioned in the Bible. A large number of them are in the Middle East and around the Mediterranean because this is where most of the stories reported in the Bible – in Jerusalem, Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), Greece in Italy, the Arabian Peninsula, Libya, Egypt and Ethiopia.
For centuries, African history has been presented exclusively from a Western point of view, regardless of the traditions and culture of the Africans themselves.
On the subject of tradition, we have often heard the proverb of Amadou Hampaté Bâ: “An old man who dies is a library that burns. “
Indeed, our sociology, our history, our pharmacopoeia, our science of hunting, and fishing, our agriculture, our meteorological science, all this is preserved in memories of men, men subject to death and dying every day.

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  1. Black Jewish aliyah?

    I know this is off the topic, but are we gonna be able to see a massive Black Jewish aliyah? The Ethiopian aliyah have pretty massive & no doubt African. However northern Africa & the Horn of Africa have culture that is more Arab and Middle Eastern than African properly.

    I want to witness several thousand Africans making aliyah in a short span of time. I wanna see Lemba, Igbos, Abayudaya, Tutsis… making aliyah and giving a great input to the State of Israel. Is it an impossible thing to do? If some African Jews gave me feedback I would be greatly thankful.

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