6d ago

'Lost African tribe' set up home in Scots woodlands as locals left baffled

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Looks like a cult, tbh.

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King Atehene, 36, who was previously an opera singer under the name Kofi Offeh, leads the group, which consists of his wife, Queen Nandi, and their handmaiden Asnat. They claim they are a lost tribe of Hebrews, with their King descended from David the Messiah, and say their ancestors were cast out when Elizabeth I deported native black Jacobites.
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- Dang, I've seen people with these beliefs but I can't remember what they call themselves. An American(?) black crypto-jewish religious conspiracy group. They set up on sidewalks and yell at everyone.
  
  like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites
  
  Black Hebrew Israelites?
Britain with no irony: "You can't come to a land and act like its yours! We were living here first!"
- Well ... Do they have a flag?
- People living in public woods is okay because colonialism, thanks Lemmy
- Did you actually just say that with no irony? The "western" world lives in relative luxury because of continued exploitation of the global south.
  
  Will the British Museum Ever Return These Stolen Artifacts?
  
  And yet, here we are, writing in English because it is the lingua franca.
"The tribe", "the group" -- aka three people.
Also, for the record, I'd like to point out that the Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid.
- Sorry, was trying to avoid the daily fail and this seemed to have the funniest title. It does seem like a weird mini sex cult.
They seem like a UK offshoot of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
If they want to live in tents in the forest instead of yelling at people walking by on the street, I suppose that's an improvement.
- Living on nuts and berries is probably safer than eating Scottish food.
I read the whole article and I still don't know if it is real. I hate this timeline.
- Same. The fact the site had an obscene amount of ads on mobile made it worse weird
  
  Tf is an ad?
Looking forward to an update after the first snow.
I'm skeptical. If these people truly are of a tribe attempting to reclaim stolen land, I support them. But the cynic in me wonders if they're cosplaying and looking for a con.
- They're African. There were never any Africans living in Scotland before the slave trade.
- If it lets them get back to nature and pursue enlightenment, does the story they use to get there really matter?
  
  Yes, if they're lying to perpetuate fraud.
Kinda feel like we should leave them just to see what happens
That was certainly... a read. I don't know enough about Jacobites, anyone have any context on that?
- To simplify, it was a political group of Catholic conservatives, which fought the Protestant kings and queens. They were not especially black.
  
  They were not especially black.
  lol
  
  This story gets weirder and weirder.
Cool and all, but you were not natives of Scotland.
- Neither are the Scots if you go back far enough.
  All humans are immigrants except MAYBE some Ethiopians still living in the cradle of life.
  Idk i feel like 1,000 years should be long enough to naturalize. If they can hold those woods for 1,000 years, they should be considered natives.
I wonder if they'd like it more or less if people just agreed to let them do it

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