Stone-Age African Language of Life–Living in the Ngbarnyi (Gonja) Concept
Rashid Abubakar Iddrisu
ABSTRACT
An Epistemological Challenge to the Darwinian System of Evolution
This study is not presented from the standpoint of laboratory-based experimental science. Rather, it is advanced from the perspective of culture as a foundational system of knowledge and wisdom, operating in harmony with the natural rhythms of existence.
From Ngbarnyi-Gonja cultural perspective, the first culture of every living species, including human beings, is language, and the earliest foundation of human civilization is language itself. Language, therefore, constitutes civilization within the life history of all species. It forms the basis of everyday wisdom and serves as the primary medium through which beings interpret, organize, and understand the natural world.
Language emerges from daily life and sustained observation across generations. It develops from what people think, imagine, see, experience, test, smell, and remember over time. In this sense, language functions as a form of science—not formalized laboratory science, but an experiential science grounded in observation, repetition, survival, and transmission.
