On the Kushite tip

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Qevs, by its own account, was the name of one of the nations of ancient Sudan.
Dr Leo Hansberry, one of the first DOAS academics, tells us that in a compendium of his notes published by his wife and a student.

This classic is a must have for every Black Scholar

Africa and Africans as seen by Classical Writers:
the William Leo Hansberry Africans History Notebook v2
Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1977


Qevs is where the ancient Egyptians got their word Kesh. Use of Kush is from Hebrew adaptation of Qevs whom the author of Isaiah immortalized as a riverien, strong armied, nation in a land buzzing with winged insects.


Sub-Alpine Europeans knew this nation as Aithiopia or Aethiopia and held it in high regard until Nero's time.

Modern Euro terms
• Cush
• Ethiopia
• Cushitic
• Ethiopic
must not be confused with the Qevs Kush and Kushites.


The Hebrews applied Kushi to nations peoples and individuals who looked like Qevs nationals including certain Arab nations particularly those along the Red Sea.
They used it for some of their own, notably their prophet Zephaniah ben Kushi.
To this day Kushi, in Hebrew denotes not just Horn Africans but all inner Africans and people of similar phenotype.

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Qevs Kush timeline study starts with its forerunners
• Khartoum so-called "Mesolithic"
• c4500-3500 Khartoum Variant
• c4000-3200 Abkan
• c3500 post-Shamarkian
• etc

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A most stirring account of Kush in Hebrew lit

Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Kush; That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!

All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the horn is blown, hear ye. For thus hath the LORD said unto me: I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off. They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

In that time shall a present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

Y*sha`yahu (Isaiah)
chapter 18