PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON
THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
THE NATIONAL MATHEMATICAL CENTRE (NMC), ABUJA, NIGERIA
JULY 15 – 20, 2012
IGBONOMICS – THE SPIRITUALITY, COSMOLOGY AND SCIENCE OF
AFRICAN METAPHYSICS AS THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY OF
EVERYTHING
By
Sidney Davis
Research Fellow
The Catherine Acholonu Research Center for African Studies
ABSTRACT
IGBONOMICS - A GLOBAL IGBO-ORIENTED COSMOLOGY
This paper will introduce a new hypothesis that coins the concept and the term “Igbonomics.” This paper
will then propose that Igbonomics explains the inter-connectedness of all things. This “Igbonomic” view
of the world and our place in it has been preserved in our ancient texts and traditions. When NASA sent
the Pioneer 10 space probe into the far reaches of the interstellar space of the cosmos, it featured an
Information disk of coded symbols that explained the cosmology of mankind as the source of the probe.
We have something similar in the Ikom Monoliths. The Ikom Monoliths are a virtual “Information disk”
engraved with the same precision and with an even superior technology than that as displayed and
illustrated on the Pioneer Information disk however with a significant difference. That difference simply
is “cost.” The technology used to make the golden Information disk itself does not exist to make or even
reproduce an Ikom monolith and as such the cost comparison to make a gold formation disk to an Ikom
monolith is unquantifiable.
Igbonomics is the philosophy and scientific study of Igbo economy, metaphysics and cosmology as the
source of humanity and world civilizations. It is the source of that unified field theorem of everything as
applied to the study of every category of the humanities, the arts and sciences. It proposes that it is the
Niger Valley civilization that is the mother and seed culture of world civilizations including that of the
Nile, Tigris, Ganges, Amazon, Rhine, etc. Igbonomics is based on the findings of The Catherine
Acholonu Centre for African Studies.
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IGBONOMICS – THE SPIRITUALITY, COSMOLOGY AND SCIENCE OF
AFRICAN METAPHYSICS AS THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY OF
EVERYTHING1
When you have a hypothesis that proposes an origin for all things and the hypothesis bears up
under scrutiny by providing the answers to everything, then we can safely say we have gone
beyond mere hypothesis and have entered into a unified field theory of the truth of all things, the
“hyper-doughnut” of universal knowledge that I refer to as “Igbonomics.”
Igbonomics is an explanation of the inter-connectedness of all things within four dimensions
rooted in Igbo cosmology. This “Igbonomic” view of the world and our place in it has been
preserved in our ancient texts and traditions. Professor QM Catherine has already given us the
theory of "Igbonomics," I just gave it that name and a definition based on her seminal volumes "
The Gram Code of African Adam – Stone books and Cave libraries, Reconstructing 450,000
years of Africa’s Lost Civilizations," "They Lived Before Adam, (Prehistoric Origins of the Igbo
The Never Been Ruled) " and "The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam: Unearthing
Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu - The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India " and all the work
presented in her other publications, lectures, materials and workbooks. I am presenting it as a
separate academic and scholarly discourse of thought, study, philosophy and living.
Albert Einstein said that “Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is
to survive.” It is my conviction that Igbonomics will open the door to this axis change in
thinking. It involves a new way of existing and interacting with the universe. It is not really a
“new way.” It is the old way, the original way, the way of our ancient ancestors. The difficulty
lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ideas, old ideas that have usurped and replaced
the original ideas which unfortunately, for those brought up within the epistemology of western
civilization such “old ideas” have been zapped into every corner of our minds making us virtual
“zombies” of our own original ideas and of our ancient cultural heritage.
Igbonomics explains the inter-connectedness of all things within four dimensions. It is the
marriage of every category of the arts with every category of the sciences in learning and the
conducting of research. This view of the world and our place in it has been preserved in our
ancient texts, our ancient culture and traditions.
The space probes Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded the Voyager space probes, were sent into
the far reaches of interstellar space of the cosmos. Both carried small metal plaques identifying
their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the
distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard
Voyager 1 and 2 - a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to
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This paper was presented as PowerPoint presentation showing many illustrations, graphics and visual animations
of the subjects and concepts used throughout the paper.
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extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated
copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on
Earth. This Information disk of coded symbols presents the cosmology of mankind as the source
of the probe. We have something similar in the Ikom Monoliths located in Cross River State,
recently made a Nigerian UNESCO Heritage site due to the efforts of QM Catherine. The Ikom
Monoliths are a virtual “Information disk” engraved with the same precision and with an even
superior technology than that as displayed and illustrated on the Pioneer Information disk
however with a significant difference. That difference simply is “cost.” The technology used to
make the golden Information disk itself does not exist to make or even reproduce an Ikom
monolith and as such the cost comparison to make a gold formation disk to an Ikom monolith is
unquantifiable. There are also other “information disks” uncovered at Igbo Ukwu that have
encoded on them other messages from our ancient ancestors. Some of the information on these
information disks is starting to be uncovered, evaluated and interpreted by researches and
scientists today of which we shall briefly exhibit here.
The global early civilization was based in a West African origin. Ancient Africans were the first
to develop language as a system of communication and to develop a formal system of writing,
education, religion and culture. Africans gave knowledge, wisdom, philosophy and a science that
would be termed “black magic” or Chemistry or “Chem” (Black) and “Mistry” or “Mystery”
(Magic) which recent breakthroughs in science would be called Quantum Physics which is
nothing but the science of the ancient black Magi. This new science of “Quantum Physics” has
proved that there are two basic realities: the physical reality and the non-physical reality. The
former has the nature of particles, while the non-physical reality is composed of waves and
vibrations or “pure energy.” Because their nature is diametrically opposed to each other, the two
realities are self-contradictory and parallel. That is to say, they never meet and they do not agree.
The affirmation of the one cancels out the existence of the other. Of the two realities, the
wave/energy reality, which belongs to the realm of the Mind, is superior. Yet the particle reality,
which belongs to the realm of the material, attempts to cancel it out and negate its existence.
Now, the entire corpus of Newtonian physics focuses on proving that the particle universe is the
only reality. How wrong Newton was! Consequently, anyone who dared to believe in God AND
miracles, especially among scientists were excommunicated from the mainstream and branded as
fools. We as Africans have been seduced into denying the priceless heritage of the high
civilizations of the ancients and we have discarded them and have been giving homage to
somebody else's ancestors, their Deity and their cosmology instead of giving homage to our own
African ancestors, OUR Deity and OUR own African cosmology because we have been told that
it is "heathen," "pagan," "primitive," “tribalistic,” "demonic," “fetish,” "devilish," "satanic,"
“witch craft,” "superstitious," "idolatrous," "barbaric," “sensual,” "seductive," “animalistic,”
"cursed," "immoral," "evil," etc, etc., ad infinitum. It was thrown to the dogs, not to talk of the
damage done to the human psyche when the truth is turned on its head, when gods live and die
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among us, unsung, being rated as sub-human, apes, baboons, begging for recognition as
members of our miserable humanity.
However there are few among us who are starting to tap into our ancient ancestral scientific
cosmology such as Professor A.O.E. Animalu, Sam Okoye, Gabriel Oyibo and Phillip Emeagwali
who are great examples of Igbo scholars reclaiming their lost Igbonomic cultural birthright and
heritage with regard to their understanding of the unified field theory of everything (TOE)
represented by the hyper-ball. The unified field TOE is also proven by the Igbo-Ukwu bronze
artifact of the Torus hyper-doughnut. Oyibo emphasized the wave theorem in his research, but if
he would dig deeper into his Igbo science, he would see that beside the wave theorem, there is
the fractal tetrahedron theorem as explained by Nassim Haramein also illustrated on the IgboUkwu bronze Torus hyper-doughnut. In other words the wave functions create fractals. Both
theorems defy Newtonian-Einstein physics and take Quantum physics to the next level or the Afa
divination system. Oyibo and Haramein come together like Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking.
Oyibo limits himself by appealing to Western tradition, the Islamic, Christian and Jewish
traditions instead of digging deep into his Niger Igbo-African tradition to which Haramein
acknowledges as the source originator of this Science of all sciences. Also there is the research
of Dr. Ron Eglash2 widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics, on the science
of African fractals. His research includes the use of fractal patterns in African architecture, art,
and religion, and the relationships between indigenous African cultural and spiritual practices
and modern technology. Why did Africans focus so much on fractal designs while other groups
did more with Euclidian geometry? The African focus on fractals is endemic in every aspect of
African culture. It can even be heard in our polyrhythmic music (similar simultaneous rhythms at
different scales). Such recognition of the genius of African culture dispels the notion that
African religion, spirituality and cosmology is paganistic, heathenish or devilish.
Egyptian philosophy has Igbo Origins. There are pyramids in West Africa just as we see them in
Egypt. In February 2012 a Nigerian Egyptologist Souley Garba discovered a pyramid in an
advanced state of deterioration and a sphinx in Dan Baki, Niger, 20 km west of the city of Zinder
and 2 km north of the village of Tirmini. The Dan Baki pyramid is said to have a twin nearby
and appears to be part of a series of pyramids located in the region of Tanout. The pyramid of
Dan Baki is estimated to be at least 4500 years old, about 1000 years older than the Giza
Pyramids. Garba believes that the point of origin of humanity is in the Niger basin and that from
there people spread into Chad, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Then there are the
Nsude pyramids of Nigeria of which hardly a trace remains today. These archeological
evidences all lend support to the thesis that it is the Niger River Valley civilization that is the
mother and source of the Nile River Valley civilization and of an African dominion in West
Africa long before Egypt. Yes, West Africans built pyramids and still know how to build them.
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It is highly encouraged that the names of scholars and physicists mentioned through out this paper be researched
to see how they have tapped into African cosmology for their phenomenal research and discoveries.
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THE EGYPTIAN FLOWER OF LIFE and THE TORUS HYPER-DOUGHNUT
The Flower of Life depictions seen in ancient African cosmology from the Nile Valley to the
Niger Valley is an intricate geometric pattern of lines, circles and curves consisting of
interconnected hexagonal shapes. This illustration contains within its proportions every single
aspect of life there is. It contains every mathematical formula, every law of physics, every
harmony of music, every biological life form. It contains every atom, every dimensional level,
absolutely everything that is within waveform and particle form. The Igbo Ukwo hexagonal
model is actually the model of creation itself, showing the interconnected hexagons and cubes
that lie at the very root of every atomic particle and wave form. This Ukwo hexagonal model
was the same model used by Nigerian born physicist Philip Emeagwali for the invention of his
model of the HYPERBALL to create the Internet grid. All of this comes from our indigenous
knowledge more than 6,000 years before Physics or Quantum Field Theory was introduced as
field of study. This illustration shows that interaction among wave functions creates particles.
This “New Physics” is the subject of the New Physics pioneers like Nassim Haramein, Samuel
Ejikeme Okoye (26 July 1939 – 18 November 2009), Gabriel Oyibo, Michio Kaku, Stephen
Hawking and others.
The Igbo Ukwu Torus model recorded in bronze by ancient Igbo scientist displays knowledge of
inter-dimensional dimensional geometry that is comparable to the findings of the scientists we
have just referenced. This enigmatic phenomenon preserved in bronze by the created by the Igbo
Ukwu civilization is actually one of the greatest discoveries of modern physics. The development
of this science in Africa is what I refer to as Igbonomics. What our modern scientists have
discovered is in fact Igbonomics. Our ancient scientists knew this science of unified fields which
Einstein called the Unified Field Theory also called the Theory of Everything only to our ancient
Igbonomists it was not a “Theory.” It was a system of cosmological knowledge known as IFA or
AFA.
THE NUMBER FOUR
Igbo cosmology is rooted in the number four. The universal Afa3 language is rooted in the
number FOUR as expressed in the cube or the tetrad. FOUR is the basic number of Afa and of
the Igbos cosmos. The number four is said to be the number of the earth and mankind. There are
four cardinal points on the earth; North – South – East – West. There are four winds. There are
four seasons. There are four phases of the moon. The four elements: earth – air – fire – water.
There are four basic blood types in man; O, A, B and AB. There are four basic states of matter:
solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. There are four numbers of basic chemical units in the DNA
structure: adenine A solid figure with four faces is a tetrahedron. The regular tetrahedron is the
simplest Platonic solid. A tetrahedron, which can also be called a 3-simplex, has four triangular
faces and four vertices. It is the only self-dual regular polyhedron. (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C)
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John Umeh in his book, “The Igbo People: Their Origin and Culture Area” assigns Igbo origins to nearly every
people group on the African continent and beyond and says that, “Afa language is the oldest Igbo language.”
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and guanine (G). A solid figure with four faces is a tetrahedron. The regular tetrahedron is the
simplest Platonic solid. A tetrahedron, which can also be called a 3-simplex, has four triangular
faces and four vertices. It is the only self-dual regular polyhedron. The valence of carbon the
most common element is 4. There are four basic rules of mathematics: addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division. There are four basic forces in nature: electromagnetic, weak, strong and
gravitational and in Quantum Physics there are four dimensions.
The Igbo concept of time is rooted in the number four. The Igbo week has four days while the
great week has eight days. This basic number also represents the four fish-monger deities of Igbo
oral tradition who are said to have inaugurated the four market days Eke, Orie, Afo and Nkwo
named after each of them. Thus four is seen as the number of deity among the Igbo. Its basic
form is the quadrangle represented by the basic geometrical shapes: the pyramid, the lozenge, the
slanting square representing a four-pointed star, the X shaped equal armed cross enshrined in the
Igbo Ukwu-type Ichi facial scarifications. These forms, when etched on wooden doorposts and
shrine objects represent the deity itself, thus four becomes the number of deity. The ichi
markings of the lozenge, a quadrangle is the quintessential symbol of the Mother Goddess, of the
order of nature represented by the carbon crystal: the most basic form representing the molecular
universe.
The Nag Hammadi scriptures speak of the coming of the great angel of the “fourth eon” or the
“fourth luminary” of heaven. He is linked by the symbolism of the number four to Nag
Hammadi’s “fourth generation” of humanity “which is the most exalted, is kingless and perfect.”
This would seem to apply to the Igbo nation to whom the same number and elements of culture
apply. The Igbo appear to be the only people on the planet who observe a four day week. This is
the same ubiquitous quadrangle, the origin of ichi geometry, which symbolizes the presence and
mystical essence of the Deity in Igbo religion and cosmology.
Igbonomics as a hypothesis regarding the origin of all things is not just a paradigm shift, but an
entire AXIS SHIFT in theology, philosophy, history and every other Western ideology there is.
The African origin of civilization is not the Nile Valley, but the Niger Valley. . It proposes that it
is the Niger Valley civilization that is the mother and seed culture of world civilizations
including that of the Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Ganges, the Amazon, the Rhine, etc.
The greatest mark of Western civilization “Democracy” the fruit and the propeller of
civilizations originated in Igbo land, not Egypt and not Greece. The Igbo4 were part and parcel of
the origin and making of all culture, language, philosophy, myths, science and religion. Not only
did the out of Africa migration take place from West Africa, but the distinguishing cultural
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I must qualify my incessant use of the word or term “Igbo” within the context of Igbonomics. As Professor
Catherine Acholonu has stated, “Our intention is not to single out the Igbo out from our other Black African
brethren, but rather to present the Igbo example as an eye opener to the rest of Black Africa who can now seek
their own roots through this now well chartered road once lost and forgotten. What is true of the Igbo is true of all
Nigerian peoples and all Black Africa, for they are one people, one destiny.” The Lived Before Adam, p. 461
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phenomenon known all over the world as Black African culture is geographically Nigerian in
origin. Igbonomics proposes that Igbo is at the root of all languages including European, that the
pristine culture and language of early man were transferred into Igbo cosmology and language,
that it is here, in Southern Nigeria that has been the breeding house for the cultural and spiritual
emancipation of peoples of Africa and the world since time immemorial and that it is here that
the new African renaissance and a new “out of Africa” experience is to be inaugurated.
Igbonomics proposes that Nigeria and the African continent as a whole are the undeniable
original custodians of all knowledge, culture, and religion. We will not wait for or appeal to the
halls of Western Academia for approval for this Igbonomic hypothesis to be proven. It will be
left to us, it will be our responsibility, and indeed it is our destiny to demonstrate this before the
world.
Igbonomics is based on the findings of The Catherine Acholonu Centre for African Studies
(CARC). We the researchers at CARC are totally humbled and overwhelmed by the obvious
implications of the evidences we have before us. We do hope that these will spur Africans to take
their indigenous cultures more seriously and embark upon research to find out what all of the
continent’s founders have contributed to humanity through the ages.
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