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  • The Misiri Legend Explored: A Linguistic Inquiry into the Kalenjiin People�s Oral Tradition of Ancient Egyptian Origin
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  • Kipkoeech araap
  • 2011
  • Published by: University of Nairobi Press
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How can a black people, who do not even profess to Islam, claim to have originated from Egypt, which is such an Arabic and Islamic geographical setting? But the Kalenjiin people of Kenya have held on fast to a tradition that their ancestors in antiquity were part of ancient Pharaonic Egypt, which they variously call Tto and Misiri. As unlikely as it may sound, the persistence in keeping this oral tradition alive does not seem to be dying with time and distance from the claimed place of origin. The Misiri Legend Explored: A Linguistic Inquiry into the Kalenjiin People�s Oral Tradition of Ancient Egyptian Origin establishes the Kalenjin oral tradition of Misirian origin on the basis of linguistic evidence�a genuine tool which Egyptology scholars and researchers need to have relied on much more to bring greater and more final results to their investigations. Students of ancient Egypt willing to accept that there is an irrational prejudice against the concept of ancient black African ingenuity will upgrade their stock of knowledge regarding ancient Egypt with the numerous discoveries laid out here. They will discover a powerful new tool for their trade in the form of the African languages and cultures that now lie South of the Sahara.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Frontispiece, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. List of Tables / Figures / Maps / Pictures
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  1. Abbreviations
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Kipkoeech araap Sambu
  3. pp. xi-xiii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xv-xx
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  1. Part I. Cultural Background
  1. Introduction to Part I
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. 1. Who are the Kalenjiin?
  2. pp. 3-10
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  1. 2. The Hamite Factor
  2. pp. 11-36
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  1. 3. Locating the Kalenjiin’s Cradle-land and Establishing the Migration Route
  2. pp. 37-60
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  1. 4. And Who are the Egyptians?
  2. pp. 61-80
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  1. Part II. Comparative Linguistics
  1. Introduction to Part II
  2. pp. 83-84
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  1. 5. Comparative vs. the Contrastive Method
  2. pp. 85-100
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  1. Part III. Relating the Kalenjiin Language to the ancient Egyption Language
  1. Introduction to Part III
  2. pp. 103-104
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  1. 6. How Important is a Linguistics Discussion to an Oral Tradition Investigating Process?
  2. pp. 105-132
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  1. 7. Ancient Egyptian-Kalenjiin Syntactic Analysis
  2. pp. 133-152
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  1. Part IV. Conclusion
  2. pp. 153-158
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  1. Part V. Appendices
  2. pp. 159-160
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  1. Appendix 1. The Country Name “Egypt” and Other Place-name Etymologies
  2. pp. 161-165
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  1. Appendix 2. The Civilising Debt as the Bone of Contention
  2. pp. 166-170
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  1. Appendix 3. James Massam’s Kalenjiin Hieroglyphs Story of 1927, and the Ancient Egyptian Contribution to the Modern “Western” Alphabet
  2. pp. 171-173
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  1. Appendix 4
  2. pp. 174-186
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  1. Glossary
  2. pp. 187-216
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 243-250
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