THE MISSING PARTS OF AFRICAN HISTORY

Missing parts of history.

Our history is incomplete in so many areas the are few reasons for that. I will outline just two vital parts that are mostly missed in extracting information when history is written. Somehow history is filled with wrong information nor with no information at all in most cases.

1.Language depth

Only if we understadood language depth so much of puzzles in history could have been complete unfortunately they are not. Let's take instance of African history , looking at batswana people Batlhaping tribe to be precise. When Batlhaping tribe recites their tribe recitals they mention their king , the place they used to live in , what kind of food they used to eat and the is more information they reveal in their recitals. First if we could listen to the recitals from there go check for physical evidence on the place they used to live in most of history could have been totally complete. The is so much knowledge hidden in any language it is unfortunate that we have lost more parts of our languages hence the is information we are still ignorant of today.

2. Name of places

Still continuing with an example of batswana emphasising on language use, batswana people will name a place "Ko Dipitsing" where horses are found, ko "Majeng" where stones are found or " Gauteng" where gold is found these names resemble of what is found in that place. Clarifying the point of 'history needs to understand name of places to find missing information', for people who didn't know where horses are found, or where war happened, or where a prominent king use to stay they can take of how the batswana people name places and found pieces of information that where never written in history. We can take by street names in modern times, when you'r on a taxi the passengers will tell the taxi driver their final destination by mentioning the well known person who stay in that street even when that person is no longer they will still use that person as a reference that is piece of history that will be needed in future when someone decides to write about that town. The are hidden methods that can be used to extract information to fill all the missing parts of history just our institutions and historians have not yet figured this out.

We find so many books about history writing different truths about an event that occurred or the place or person the question we should be asking ourselves is where can we find the truth? The answer to that question is on above two points.

By: Kagiso sejamoholo