Today in college, my teacher were talking about how some cultures practice cannibalism and this sista from East Africa told the class that it was said in her country(don't know which one) that a few African tribes also practiced cannibalism..It kinda dissapointed me, is this true?

*Sigh*....to your African classmate: Whatever happened to not airing your dirty laundry? I do know of some African Ethnic Groups ("tribes" are actually considered by most to be an insulting term) that have been known to practice cannibalism, at least that did so in the past. This is unfortunate, but true. I know that many people (particularly Europeans) would use this as evidence of African savagery. But there are societies all over the World (Europe, Asia, and S. America) that have been known to do the same. That is not a justification for the practice of cannibalism; however, because I also think it is a sick practice. Yet, we as a people should not be embarrassed by every bad story we hear about Africa or Africans. Every bad practice is not a reflection on all of us.

<<<Yet, we as a people should not be embarrassed by every bad story we hear about Africa or Africans>>>


True, thank you for actually bringing me to my senses about that. I guess what's left of my Eurocentric-thinking kicked in. Even though we are the most unique, we also have our flaws. Africans aren't perfect. The whole human race has flaws but Europeans have the most. Now as for that sista airing her or 'our' dirty laundry, I was really ticked off that she would even think about mentioning that, all that does is give the diasporian-Africans in my class more of a reason to buy into the Euro-myths about and deny Africa.

...some societies would claim to be cannibalistic solely to intimidate their enemies....however, there is a small gang of crazy drug-addicted men that are terrorizing the Congo with that mess....

....its pathetic how some will try to 'label' an enire group by the actions of a disturbed minority within that group...but there are "crazies" in every society.

...and some people have "resorted" to cannibalism (ie Gemans, Brits)...cannibalism also took place right here in good ol' America:

Then another river-freezing, icicled winter hit, and with it a period so bad it was later called the Starving Time. Arms and valuable worktools were traded for a pittance in food. The fields lay fallow. Housing was used as firewood. The weak settlers were easy pickings for the contemptuous Indians. Trapped within their walls by Powhatan's renewed enmity, the Jamestown residents ate their way through their livestock, their pets, mice, rats--and each other. Many turned to cannibalism, sneaking out at night--braving Indian ambush--to dig up the graves of both English and Indian dead. One contemporary wrote of a man who secretly killed his wife and ate her, until only the head was left. The author wrote --in a tasteless joke that has spanned centuries--"Now, whether she was better roasted, boiled or carbonadoed (grilled), I know not, but of such a dish as powdered (salted) wife I never heard of."
~A Brief History of Jamestown, Virginia (http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Jamestown.html)

The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court & Order, one of several occult-inspired secret societies created by the aristocracies of Europe following the formation of the Catholic Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar in the 12th Century and still existing today within the highest stratums of European society[with strong ties to the CIA and some today's most powerful pharmaceuticals], are known to practise vampirism, technically, a form of cannibalism, having been seen doing this by reporters for the Guardian, and preferring the blood of young boys [white] of high intelligence.

Strange people with even stranger habits and traditions are to be found right across the ethnic spectrum of human existence, Africans are no different, remember that.


Peace....

The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court & Order, one of several occult-inspired secret societies created by the aristocracies of Europe following the formation of the Catholic Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar in the 12th Century and still existing today within the highest stratums of European society[with strong ties to the CIA and some today's most powerful pharmaceuticals], are known to practise vampirism, technically, a form of cannibalism, having been seen doing this by reporters for the Guardian, and preferring the blood of young boys [white] of high intelligence.

Strange people with even stranger habits and traditions are to be found right across the ethnic spectrum of human existence, Africans are no different, remember that.


Peace....
there is an old african proverb, it says your children's children will become food for your oppressor in a land overseas to the west. Hmmmmmmmmmm

there have always been savages. but the devil is the ultimate.

From: http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=29157


But the main thing is what might explain sections of the public enquiry are now under the hundred year rule. There are only three levels of secrecy in the UK for state secrets, the 30 year rule, the 80 year rule and the 100 year rule. Normal secrets, like Cabinet discussions, government papers, espionage, all that, are under the 30 year rule. Only a very small number of things ever reached the 80 year rule, particularly events in the Sudan with Kitchener in 1902, where it seems that an act of genocide was committed, and some things that happened 1914-18, as well as things like potential peace negotiations in 1941, and just about everything to do with the IRA (after all, people are still alive after 30 years) come under the 80 year rule. Of them, the darkest of state secrets, when the events of '02 were getting a bit close to their limit for comfort, a further class of secrets was created to last a hundred years, and tiny number of things were put in it - e.g. Kitchener in '02, some World War I things."

But none of these things can be said to apply to Dunblane. That was a case of a common criminal [and] sexual pervert committing some fairly ordinary murders, of a kind that happen from time to time. Even if a backbench Labour MP was implicated, or may have been involved in a large paedophile ring in Scotland, that is not a matter of vital national importance. You have a prosecution, there is a bit of a scandal, everyone is disgusted and one MP goes to prison. Big deal: such things happen. You certainly would not make such information a state secret just to save one unnamed backbench nobody's miserable neck. Governments simply don't go to such extreme lengths to save nobodies - power broking just doesn't work like that. There must be issues of profound national importance working here, and I put it to you that anything that involves certain events in Scotland is more likely to be someone of cabinet level than anything else.

http://www.geocities.com/newworldorder_themovie/thedarkside.html

Sovereign Grand Master de Vere was angry that he had not been given proper credit for these alarming revelations of exactly what goes on in the minds of the power elite. De Vere surprisingly claims to be the true author of the work, having provided archival information and documents to Gardner from the Royal vaults of the Dragon Court, proving that this belief system has been handed down generation to generation through the ages. Now reaching bizarre proportions, De Vere has set up his own website to further educate the "flim flam peasant stock masses" about the "health benefits of Satanism and Vampirism".

Meanwhile Gardner is aiding King Charles I's descendant Prince Michael Stewart to execute a "quiet Restoration in Scotland".


In Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice" he explains the reasons for ritual death and why small boys are the best victims "It was the theory of the ancient magicians that any living being is a storehouse of energy varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality according to its mental and moral character.


Britain's Scotland Yard crime squad also began major investigations into organized ritual abuse and murder within the British Isles.

http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=29157


If the physiologically flawed [although Thomas Hamilton was these were the words of Tony Blair when speaking of Gordon Brown] Thomas Hamilton was the centre of a paedophile ring in Scotland that procured boys to people of the amongst the highest rank, and Tony Blair [and] Jack Straw covered this up by the Official Secrets Act (They would do the covering, as both the Prime Minister's [and] Home Secretary's permission is needed to put some something under the 100 year rule.) it is hard to see how they or their close colleges could possibly remain in office, even if they were never inclined to such flawed behaviour themselves. The government would fall."

That prospect seems to be energising a government now considered to be fighting for its political life, even to the extent of killing the review process by which some of the banned sections of the Cullen Report would be made public, arguing that freedom of information would somehow harm other abused children in Dunblane.

Am from the east african community and i have lived with the society that is alleged to be cannibalistic. The truth is that this' an age-long myth that was used as a defense mechanisim to instill fear into neighbouring communities. In such way, they lived peacefully without having their cattle rustled. That girl should have known better than to go preaching bad news about her country of origin. By the way, the community alleged to be cannibalistic are called the 'KISU' and live somewhere at the foot of Mt elgon and they are just a normal agricultural community- quite friendly to be sincere. This is not a publicity campaign anyway

We need to be careful here and Africans (in this thread) probably need to do the appropriate research to dismiss this myth forever.

Several years ago, there was a well-respected anthropologist being interviewed who dispelled this erroneous idea that, a lot of Africans, Melanesians and Native American tribes were cannibals. He noted that THERE HAS NEVER BEEN AN MODERN ANTHROPOLOGIST THAT HAS WITNESSED AN ACT OF CANNIBALISM.

The only thing that even comes close, are the reports and revelations that some New Guinean “tribal” communities use to and some cases still do, consume the remains of dead relatives. They believe this ritual of respect, sort of, allow them to embody part of the soul and spirit, of the deceased and gives them a connection with their ancestors.

What do you think, the “so-called pagan” origins of the Eucharist and communion, are all about?

“take this bread…” (body) ________“drink this wine…” (blood).

You will find more interesting paths that imply cannibalism, among pre-Christian pagans and their direct influence on Christendom or Mesopotamian cultures, than you will in the mythologies of early European explorers. For, European explores were good at exaggerating and lying about, Africans and people that they feared or those who mystified them. As dmn234 has said, these types of “man-eating stories” were a form of defensive propaganda, used to ward off aggressors (especially WHITE PEOPLE).

We might need to leave this fairytale foolishness, in the old movies and cartoons that always showed black people, “cooking a white man in a pot”

Peace,

Sun Ship

:teach: There is NO pristine science, research or irrefutable evidence of cannibalism in Africa!!! :teach:

Matter of fact, the most recent infamous cases of ACTUAL cannibalism, has been White Europeans/Euro-americans.

Remember Jeffery Dahmer and his insatiable appetite for black folks?

Did you know, there is a murder/cannibalism trial going on in Germany, as we speak?

Last Spring, All Africa Forum carried a story that dealt with cannibalism.

One Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies who live in the vast jungles of the jungle asked the UN Security Council to investigate acts of cannibalism against their people by government and rebel fighters from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He asked the Council to declare cannibalism a “crime against humanity” and an “act of genocide”.

He told the UN’s Indigenous People’s Forum that during the course of the four-year civil war, his people had been hunted down like animals by both sides and eaten because they are considered subhuman and because it is believed that their flesh can endow the eater with magical powers.

At the urging of terrified residents and church leaders the UN Security Council agreed that an investigation was warranted.

i am originally east african(ethiopian) but i dont know about people eating people.but back home raw meat is a popular dish and long time ago my grand father(who fought in against invading italians in 1935-1941) told me about the war and how they used their habbit of eatin raw meat to terrify the enemy by standing next to a dead white body and eating the raw meat like an animal with a knife.this terrified the whites and when they went back home they told stories about black cannibals in africa.

I once heard that the american word picnic (meaning to eat out doors) derrived from "pick a nigg+r". souithern whites in their cowardly terrorism of africans in the american south would lynych black men and women. they often would burn them at the stake, then the children, women and white men would pick a piece of their body and eat it. i was told this by a relative, who learned this in an african american studies class at her university.

wether its crazed killers like Jefferey dalmer in Milwuakee wisconsin, or insane murdurous, superstitous fools in the Kongo, or ignorant white southern cowards, cannabalism is a sick practice. the sickest..like pan said us black folk should feel no shame.

killers, and savage people are of every race and creed.

peace

peace,

they are STILL cannibals, just not reported in the news!!


up until the late 1800's they were still eating so called Indians and wearing some of their body parts on their person................

thus their obsession with eating steaks and different meats RARE or MEDIUM RARE!