by Professor Chidi G Osuagwu
PROLOGUE
A Civilization: organised set of Algorithms for ascensional development and sustenance of human society is as advanced as its most advanced knowledge-seeking and problem-solving Algorithm. With her Naturalism and Afa Algorithm Africa possessed the most advanced known Civilization of the Ancient World. Afa, a fractal-binarist system for holistic problem-solving, has 256 possible solutions to a given problem. The Chinese I-Qing Algorithm, which was next most sophisticated known, has 64 solutions. Most other cultures had diverse Oracles, claiming ‘god’ as their Algorithm, with no known clear methods or solutions, but entropy wars. When Africans introduced Inoculation in 1721 Boston, America, European settlers rioted; wondering how “Contagion could cure contagion”. That was the civilizational relationship between Europe and Africa at the time! Unfortunately, for Humanity and Earth’s Biosphere, barbaric Martial Cultures, usually, destroy Algorithmic Civilizations. Thoth prophesised destruction of African Civilization by West Eurasians. This is the sad fate of Africa’s Nature-Afa Civilization. Happily, at this turn of the 21st Century, Africa’s Youths have risen to restore African civilization as Thoth also prophesied. This was the dream of Olaudah Equiano, Haitian Revolutionists, Aime Cesaire and very many other ancestors. Africa’s defeat of Covid-19 with African Phytomedicine has, thanks to heroes like President Andrey Rajoelina and The Madagascar Protocol, been a morale booster along this Mission-path. Botswana President Duma Boko’s call for a return to African Socioeconomics is in this Spirit.African Renascence is on the March! Africa posits an Omnipolar World Order!!
INTRODUCTION
A people’s Archetype is their model of Cosmos Construction by Nature’s God and Design for modelling World Constructions by Humans. Izu, the African Archetype, models Uwaizu; the African Cosmos. A people’s Archetype embodies their picture of the world or Cosmology. A people’s Divination Algorithm (Ultimate Knowledge-seeking and problem-solving protocol) is a fair indicator of the level of their advancement as Civilization. The Fractal-binarist Niger-Congo Afa Algorithm was the most advanced knowledge-seeking protocol known to the ancient World. Afa Episteme states that for any real problem confronting humans there are 256 possible solutions (the Chinese I-Qing that is next arrived at 64 solutions).
When Botswana’s new President, Duma G Boko, recently renounced Capitalism and Socialism in favour of return to African traditional ‘-ism’, the question that arises is ‘What does he mean?’ The short answer is that he renounced the non-scientific Greek Delphi and Indian Jyotish Oracular, ‘god’-as-Algorithm, Knowledge system of West Eurasia, and the socio-economic doctrines they generated, in favour of Diatola (Sestwana term for Afa) knowledge system and the Botho sociology that inheres therefrom. This symposium is to, with associated data, elaborate on these facts.
NATURALISM, AFRICAN ARCHETYPE AND AFA
African Naturalism
The second century AD Roman Berber scholar Lucius Apuleius wrote a both, which currently bears the Augustine of Hipo given name of The Golden Ass. In that book Apuleius asserted one fact: All peoples of the World have some levels of ideas of Nature. But only Africans (from Egypt in the North to the southern interior) know, understand and live by the laws of Nature. It is on this foundation that ancient Africans developed science as ‘mimicry’ of Nature…a bionic phenomenon. As the Greeks recorded, the World’s first scientists were Africans. This realisation is consistent with Africa’s ab initio Naturalism.
An archetype is people’s pictorial embodiment of their worldview…Cosmology. It is the physical embodiment of how the world is constructed and model of how to do constructions in the World. There are three major archetypes of the ancient World of Africa and Eurasia. Izu, as Igbo call it, is the African Archetype. It is the four-cusped Hypocycloid, which can be generated by passing light through tinted-glass. Swastika is the West Eurasian Archetype. Tai-chi-tu is the East Eurasian Archetype. Of the three, only the African Archetype can be physically demonstrated, which is consistent with the status of ancient African science.
Afa Algorithm: Spirituo-Intellectual Ranking of Beings
- f(n) = n; Gorilla (The Beast)/Ofeke…1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 (Arithmetic, zero-sum, realm of Ego).
- f(n) = 2^(n-1); Oha (Ofeke + Dibia) …1; 2; 4; 8; 16; 32 (Basis of Kolanut offerings/connectedness).
- f(n) = 2^n; 2; 4; 8; 16; 32; 64 (Basis of Chinese I-Qing Divination Algorithm).
- f(n) = 2^[2^(n-1)] = Dibia and Spirits… 2; 4; 16; 256; 65,536; 4,294,967,296. (Hypergeometry; Hence, after God is Dibia).
- f(n) = 2^[2^(+∞)] = God … +∞ (Infinity/Realm of imponderability).
As there is the Afa Algorithm in the Niger-Congo, there is Seked Algorithm (the protocol for geometries) in the Nile Valley. The Algorithms powered ancient African civilizations. These naturalistic civilizations had developed Human society more thoroughly than anywhere else.
Sometimes in the second century BCE Thoth, the Egyptian Spirit-of-Knowledge and patron of Learned men and visioners, foresaw and foretold that uncivilised West Eurasians (Aryans and related peoples) would invade and destroy Egyptian/African civilization (this information was known among knowledge men across Africa). This History shows, duly, happened. Thoth also foresaw, and foretold, that an African Renascence would occur. Here we are! When, therefore, President Duma Boko, like other renascent youth across Africa, announced that Africa has something better than the social disease Capitalism, and its failed medicine Socialism, we rally here to assert the Truth in his claims.
One knows enough of Botswana to know that Diatola (Afa) knowledge-seeking and problem-solving Algorithm exists as well as Botho social philosophy. Anthropological and socioeconomic data from the less decivilized !Kung San that African civilization is asleep in Botswana, like elsewhere in the Continent, and can be awoken.
CAPITALISM AND CRISIS OF WEST EURASIAN SOCIOECONOMICS
Economics has two broad aspects: Production and Distribution. Production, mostly, involves engineering and management techniques upon which most people, easily, agree. Most contentious problems of Economics arise, mostly, over distribution of the end-products of production…Utilities. The problem of Economics is the problem of utilities distribution. Balancing Productive Incentive and Distributive Equity is The Prime Economics Problematic. How to minimise disagreements and achieve timely agreements on what to do is the reason decision-making mechanism is vital to socio-economic systems (Growth as an economic paradigm and necessity is a West Eurasian social panel-beating Paradigm; a fake cure for sickly capitalism).
Consensualiam As African Decision-making Algorithm.
So, naturalistic decision-making (Democracy) and utilities-sharing (Economic Distribution) Algorithms are two key Devices Botswana and Africa urgently need. Scholars who investigated affirm that African Democratic method is Consensualism. All-inclusive algorithm that weighs-in all opinion. The disorderly DuelocracyEuropeans brought to Africa as algorithm for Democracy is consistent with their zero-sum worldview but, totally: unnatural, un-African and dysfunctional. Our African Students Association, Youngstown State University, Ohio, 1976 realised, devised and employed what we called Ananse (Ghanaian word for Spiderweb/Network) Voting Method, AVM. AVM, like magic, dissolved unnecessary argumentations during meeting decisions or elections. Africa should note and revert to Consensualism. That plus Duad Representation: one-man-one-woman (a delegation of one is un-African) would dynamize African politics.
Capitalism is Zero-sum Socioeconomics Socialism Cannot Cure
Capitalism is contemporary term for a socio-economic system that incorporates the classical West Eurasian culture of Plunder-by-arms and or Plunder-by-guile. Socialism is a term for an empathetic socio-economic system that precludes Plunder from relationships without specifying measurable ideals. The African Erima socio-economic system has, like a Botho system, specified mechanisms and measurable ideals. To follow African polymathic Afa algorithm in societal construction is to effectuate a holistic and just social order.
About 13th Century BCE, Moses’ Mammon Mandate to Semites = Plunder-by-guile = Usury Algorithm (Banking) = One leg of Capitalism.
525 BCE Persian Cambyses II invaded Egypt, later followed by Rome on the Aryan model = Plunder-by-arms = Martial Algorithm (Military Bases) = One leg of Capitalism.
Monetary Algorithm + Military Algorithm = Monetary-Military Complex Algorithm = Capitalism.
Capitalism is, functionally, a Plunder Algorithm that, continuously, transfers Wealth from Poorer to Richer of Society (Mathew Effect), which was perfected under the Roman empire.
Roma + Mammon = Romamona = Spirit of Capitalism (The Spirit Jesus Christ preached against and was crucified by Romamonists for attacking: “You cannot worship God and Mammon” he warned. The Roman empire created capitalism and unleashed it on the World, and Jesus Christ was the first anti-capitalist).
In my December 2014 online essay “Obamanomics and Economics Beyond Cambridge”, I warned that the Western mind cannot understand and tame Capitalism, because its dynamics are beyond its zero-sum, arithmetic, worldview (They are cosmologically blinded and epistemologically exhausted). But Afa, crafted on a hypergeometric framework sees through the Mammon-machine that transfers wealth from Poorer to Richer as Jesus noted two thousand years earlier (a Christian capitalist is a fake or ignorant Christian!). Socialism is an ill-defined Algorithm that sought to solve the Mathew Effect (wealth-transfer from Poorer to Richer) problem of Capitalism. Below are data showing the patterns of wealth distributions by Capitalism and “Socialism”. Note that in the Obamanomics and Economics Beyond Cambridge essay I noted that my agemate, not then yet President Donald Trump, who was then relentlessly criticizing my nephew, then United States President Barack Obama, did not know much of what Socioeconomics was about. Since then, Donald Trump has been President and is about to become President again, but he still doesn’t know. It is beyond his inherited worldview and thoughtway, and not his personal fault. African Youths should Google and read that essay.
Table I: INCOME SIZE DISTRIBUTION COMPARING SOCIALIST AND CAPITALIST CONTEXTS
*First three member quintiles define approximating equation
Table II: REFERENCE QUINTILE INCOME SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS AND BOTSWANA
| S/No | COUNTRY | YEAR | SQ1, % | SQ2,% | SQ3, % | SQ4, % | SQ5, % | Simplified Best Organizing Equation* |
| 1 | AI SUGGESTED OPTIMUM DISTRIBUTION | 2024 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | To balance Incentive and Equity |
| “ | “ | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | SQn = n + 1 | |
| 2 | !KUNG SAN (Botswana) | 1979 | 12.0 | 16.0 | 22.0 | 26.0 | 30.0 | – |
| “ | “ | “ | 3 | 4 | 5.5 | 6.5 | 7.5 | ~ SQn = n + 2 (All decimals dropped) |
| 3 | BOTSWANA | 2015 | 3.9 | 7.0 | 11.1 | 19.5 | 58.5 | |
| “ | “ | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 45 | ~ 2^n + 1 (First three determined) | |
| HADZA (Tanzania) THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL IDEAL | 2010 | 13.5 | 16.5 | 21.0 | 23.5 | 26.5 | – | |
| “ | “ | “ | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | SQn = n + 3 |
ERIMA AND ERIMANOMICS
It is clear from Data on the Tables before us, on Botswana and South Africa, particularly, that President Duma Boko knows what he is talking about when he renounces European ‘Rhodes-Asian’ Socioeconomics in favour of the !Xaro Socioeconomics of the !Kung San. He is familiar with both and can compare, as anybody else can compare on the above Tables. Does the African academy know what I am talking about? Yes, of course! We discussed these fundamentals at the University of South Africa in 2006 and the Library of Alexandria in 2016. Renascent Africa knows what She is talking about! The Ngaka in Botswana and Dibia in Nigeria know what we are talking about!
Without the resilience of African naturalistic socioeconomic systems there would be, after thousands of years West Eurasian onslaughts, no African society to talk about or talk from. In my book Erima: Towards a Just World, I gave outline of the Igbo Erima social system that has withstood the worst of assaults. The Odibo(apprenticeship) system that requires the mentored to mentor others to have any social recognition at all. The Ozo nobility system that does not ennoble the crook but demands Honest service to the community to earn. The relentless search for Amamihe, knowledge. The Ikenga-Ihite fractal-binary structuring of society, at all levels, that makes it a super-resilient network, etc, etc. Africa knows what She is talking about.
HYSTERESIS: AFRICAN PAST AND FUTURE
“Hysteresis refers to the phenomenon where the response of a system to an external influence depends on the previous state or history of the system. In other words, the system’s behaviour is path-dependent, and it can exhibit different responses to the same stimulus depending on how it got to its current state”. This quotation outlines a phenomenon, which cynics and other misguided peoples want Africa to ignore. That Slavery was in the past and has no present socio-economic consequence to anybody. That colonialism was in the past and has nothing to do with ‘Investor’ as loot-recycler, despite Simon Kapwepwe’’s clear warning on the danger? African youth should understudy the phenomenon of Hysteresis and be properly guided. Data on the tables above indicate, in agreement with hysteresis, that History never forgets but takes memory into account in all responses and at all times.
CONCLUSION
Thoth prophesied, millennia ago, that West Eurasian invaders would destroy Africa’s Nature-based and knowledge-driven civilisation. That came to pass and is still ongoing. Thoth prophesied, also, that Africa’s tribulations shall come to an end and there will be a Renascence of African civilization. There is, currently, intimations of the fulfilment of that prophesy, too. The Spirit of African Renascence animates African Youth. President Andrey Rajoelina’s heroic lead of Africa to use African Phytomedicine and the Madagascar Protocolto fight Covid-19 is a case in point. Other African youths are astir worldwide. Botswana President Duma Boko joined the crusade by advocating the renunciation of malfunctional West Eurasian zero-sum socioeconomics and resuscitation of African life-promoting socioeconomics. This paper has interpreted and amplified what he said. The paper highlights the Nature-Afa framework on which his call is based and emphasises the correctness of his advocacy. Based on Nature’s laws and Afa algorithm of hypergeometric knowledge-seeking and problem-solving, African socioeconomics would be best for Africa and Planet Earth. The data are supplied to validate this surmise. Africa and the World are at an inflection point of survival and History. Africa posits an Omnipolar World Order!
The author, Professor Chidi G Osuagwu, is affiliated to African Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.
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