Figure 1, Adapted from WikipediaNefertiti and Pharoah Nana Akenten‵s Ancient Egypt
This famous black woman whose statue is often seen circulating the world is said to be born in 1370 BC and died in 1330 BC. Nefertiti was a queen (Ohemaa) of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. According to scholars, she was the famous royal wife of Pharaoh Nana Akenten who ruled before his wife took over shortly. Both Nefertiti and her husband were renowned for their progressive and radical overhaul of state religious policy, in which they practiced a form of monotheism and Atenism that concentrated on the sun disc and its direct association with the entire royal family.
Some renowned Egyptologists contend that Nefertiti ruled briefly as the pharaoh in Egypt known by the throne name, Neferneferuaten, before the ascension of Pharaoh Nana Tutu Ankomah (Tutankhamun). However, not all scholars concur on this suggestion that she reigned, so they assert that if Nefertiti did continue her rule as a female pharaoh, then her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna (AmansƐi period) and the relocation of the capital city back to Thebes (TebƐ) which was considered the traditional city of that time.
Nefertiti was made famous by the recent findings of her ancient bust in the twentieth century, which is now on display in Berlin’s Neues Museum. The bust is the most copied work of art in ancient Egypt. The renowned Egyptian sculptor Tutu Mosi (Thutmose) did the masterwork, which was excavated from his buried studio complex in the early Twentieth Century.
Titles and the Bust of Queen Nefertiti
Titles of Nefertiti’s were many including the followingː the Beauty of Aten; Hereditary Princess; Lady of Grace; Sweet of Love; Lady of The Two Lands; Main King’s Wife, his Beloved; Great King’s Wife, his Beloved; Lady of All Women; and Mistress of Upper & Lower Egypt. Few women in Ancient Egypt had been awarded such numerous titles.
Controversial Upbringing
Though her parenthood had been determined to be a woman named Tey who carried the title of “Nurse of the Great Royal Wife,” and her husband Ay who used the title “God’s Father,” it is not true that these parents had originated from the East or a foreign land outside Egypt as claimed by some modern Egyptologists. Some tribes that inhabit Ghana and West African regions today use these names. Historical documents indicate that these are the same black Africans who migrated to China and Japan to build their current modern civilizations. The Chinese, for example, have the word “kowtow” to mean the same as the Ancient Egyptian Akan (Ghana), which translates, “bow down to worship.” The Edo tribe from Benin in Nigeria is believed to have migrated to build Japanese society, which used to be called “Edo” or Japan. The Shang Dynasty of China which grounded modern Chinese civilization is believed to have migrated from Nigeria.
The exact dates when Nefertiti married Akhenaten and became the king’s great-royal wife are uncertain. They had at least six daughters together including Meritaten, Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre. Ankhesenamun later married Pharoah Nana Tutu Ankomah (Tutankhamu). She was once considered a candidate for the mother of Tutankhamun, but a genetic study conducted on discovered mummies suggests that she was not.
Figure 2 Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their daughter Meritaten
Alabaster sunken relief depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their daughter Meritaten. Early Aten cartouches on king’s arm and chest. From Amarna, Egypt. 18th Dynasty. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
A limestone relief depicting Nefertiti smiting a female captive on a royal barge. It is displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Adapted from Wikipedia).
Akan King Oti Akenten
In West Africa, during the 12th century the Akans who had lived in Ancient Egypt (Kemeth) before migrating to present-day Mali to build the Ancient Ghana Empire, migrated to the southern part of modern Ghana today. Later, after the fall of the Ancient Ghana Empire, they built numerous Akan states, including the dominant Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo in the middle part of Gold Coast. The Ashanti one was originally centered on the Oyoko clan and was established at Kumasi in the 1600s. The Ashanti were initially a part of the powerful Denkyira state. However, during the 17th century, the renowned Oyoko chief Oti Akenten consolidated the Ashanti clans into a loose confederation against the powerful Denkyira. Osei Tutu I became Asantehene during the 17th Century, and along with his advisor Okomfo Anokye, they began to consolidate the Ashanti Empire politically and militarily. The Ancient Egyptian Kingdom and the Ancient Israel and Judah, which were moved to Mali from Egypt and its environments [to become the Ghana Empire], were later to be continued in Modern Ghana. King Akenten‵s power was reminiscent of what took place in Pharoah‵ Egypt. The name [Ofori]-Atta was derived from the Egyptian title “Pharoah” which is being used by the Akyem Kingdom which later broke away from the Ashantis in Adansi. Many clans that formed the Denkyira Empire at first migrated from Ancient Mesopotamia and Babylon. Later some would migrate eastward to establish the Akwamu Empire.
JESUS CHRIST (KWASI HENE) descendants live in Akwamu
The Bron people live in the Brong and Ahafo Regions at present. In the past, some of these people migrated to the Akwamu area in the OTI Region of Ghana and settled there. These same people had the descendants of Ayesu/Jesus migrated together and settled there. So today, Jesus whose Hebrew name was Kwasi Hene has his current descendants [blood line] living in the Akwamu area. The Akwamu people have Ayesu/Yesu as their supreme Deity whom they worship and venerate during certain important occasions.
Akwamu is also a place where some migrants from Ancient Assyrians and Babylonians live currently. Sarpong the great ₍Sargon 1₎, one of the Kings of Assyria had good contacts with the Ancient Egyptian rulers/Sculptors such as Tutu Mosi that led to intermarriages among their people. The Ancient Assyrian capital city is wrongly called Nineveh. But the correct word is Naniwah [his eyes]. Not knowing the language they study, Egyptologists have made mistakes, which they should begin to make corrections.
After migrating from Bono State, the Akan founders of Akwamu settled in Twifo₋Heman. The Akwamu Kings led an expansionist empire in the 17th and 18th centuries. At the peak of their empire, Akwamu extended 400 kilometers along the coast from Quidah, Benin in the East to Winneba, Ghana, in the West. Otumfuo Ansah Sasraku 1, their famous King annexed the Hebrew Guans and took over traditional areas of the Kyerepon. The Kyerepon language in the Biblical period was Aramaic. The Apafram festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Akwamu. They celebrate it in January. The festival is celebrated to seek bondage with Nananom, their ancestors, and God the sovereign Lord to ask them for their blessings and protection.
The Guans were the first Hebrew people who ran to Ghana during the first war of AD 63 in Caanan. As Aramaic-speaking people who descended from Kenah, the father of Yaw Bram (Biblical Abraham), they can be found in the Akuapem area and also the upper part of the current region of the Akwamu known as Oti Region. They also have some settlements in the Coastal region of Simpa. The Guans were conquered by King Ansah Sasraku, a great warrior of the Denkyira people (Former Babylonians) who later moved and directed great expansion in the Akwamu. Later, they were absorbed into the Akwamu people.
