Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Story of Sanhat, an Official of Kemet

From: Jacques Depelchin <jdepelchin41@gmail.com>
To: Chambi Chachage <chambi78@yahoo.com> 
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: Is the Story of Sanhat the same as the Story of Sinuhe?

Yes, it is the same.  SaHnat is actually the correct transliteration from the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

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From: Rex Marinus <rexmarinus@hotmail.com>
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 1:53 AM
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Story of Sanhat, an Official of Kemet

Is this story not also known as "The Story of Sinuhe?" or are they different. Its sounds the same. I'd like to know.
Obi Nwakanma

 

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 22:19:58 +0000
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Story of Sanhat, an Official of Kemet

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From: Jacques Depelchin <jdepelchin41@gmail.com>
To: Udadisi Mdadisi <chambi78@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 12:30 AM
Subject: i hope this will be of interest to many

Hi Chambi,

Here is what the working group on hieroglyphs has produced most recently.  Please, do circulate as widely as possible.  This blurb has been sent by Per Ankh's book distributor 

Thank you for your support of Per Ankh Publishers. We are excited to announce our latest arrival:

Sanhat

The Story of Sanhat, an Official of Kemet

SANHAT, among Africa's oldest written literary texts, comes from the time of King Sehotepibre, over three thousand eight hundred years ago. Sanhat, an officer returning from Libya after a military expedition, hears messengers summon the prince Senwosret urgently to the capital: The pharaoh is dead. Sanhat overhears other messengers summoning other, younger princes back. Fearing a bloody palace coup, he flees to Palestine. There he prospers. But dreading the prospect of dying abroad, he obtains a royal pardon, and returns to Egypt, bringing his life to a satisfactory close.

This tale, over four thousand years old, is here transliterated and translated into French and English by the SHEMSW BAK hieroglyphic study group (Yoporeka Somet, Jacques Depelchin, Ayi Kwei Armah) and then translated into Akan, Kikongo, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Wolof and Zulu by freelancers working from the French and English versions. 

"The story you're reading now is among the most ancient of Africa's written texts. Once we enter the world and time it comes from, we break loose from
the crippling notion that Africa has no written tradition. We initiate a cultural conversation with ancestors who lived thousands of years ago, and wrote 
down their experiences in our most ancient script, the hieroglyphs of Kemet. Then, reconnecting with lost ancestral visions of reality, we can examine 
issues at the core of their identity and ours...This text gives readers an opportunity to envision an African society that existed long before the Arab and 
European invasions. ...Beyond its value as an ancient literary text, what practical value can such a story offer the reader today? First, for every African 
reading this story, it offers a gift -- the lengthening of a social memory once excised. An accurate -- and, for Africa, a very long -- social memory is a 
prerequisite for individual and social creativity. One of the many insights this text offers is to show that the idea of African never having produced 
worthwhile intellectual works is a lie."

-- SHEMSW BAK

Sanhat, and other books, are available at: www.bbkwan.com.

343 pages

$17 plus shipping

This is an important book not to be missed!

Again, thank you for your continued support. Please help us spread the word and pass this onto anyone that you think would be interested. 

Many thanks,

Bonnie Kwan

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