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Many people seem to the names "Barack" and "Obama" are African names. They are not.

Baraq [Barack] was the name of the winged horse-like creature that took Mohammed to Paradise in the Night Journey. Baraq can also mean God's blessing. Obama is Swahili for Osama, who was one of Mohammed's chief warriors. Osama also means lion. Hussein reminds some Americans of Saddam Hussein, and Obama's supporters get upset if it is used. Hussein was the name of Mohammed's grandson. So Obama's entire name is based upon Islamic mythology and African conquest. Barack Hussein Obama means [Allah's blessing] [Mohammed's grandson] [One of Mohammed's finest warriors].

Obama's name reveals a part of history that is unknown or hidden about America, Africa and slavery. It also reveals a history of the destruction of native African civilization. His name came from his father, a so-called Arab African. The word Arab is the clue to the hidden history.

If you would like to learn about the Arab African slave traders that came from the same area of Africa that Obama's father came from, read Tippu Tip and the East African Slave Trade (Leda Farrant, Northumberland Press, 1975). Tippu Tip looked African, but he was 100% Arab and Muslim. By the way, Arab is not a racial term, but a cultural/language term.

But the slave trade had another effect. Africa slowly became Islamic. Jihad worked in many ways to bring about conversion. Sometimes trade introduced Islam and a hybrid Islam/native African religion evolved. Then jihad was used to purify and remove the African culture to result in a purer Islam. But in the end, half of Africa fell to Islam...

Tippoo Tib TRAILBLAZER FOR THE GREAT EXPLORERS OF AFRICA (1837-1905)LINK

MARCUS GARVEY.COM

VOLUMES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN about the exploration of Africa by the European; little if anything of the black man's part in it. Yet the greatest of all the African trailblazers was a Negro--Hamid ibn Mohammed, better known as Tippoo Tib.

We are familiar with the adventures of Stanley, Livingstone, Burton, Speke, Cameron; nevertheless, those of Tippoo Tib were much more exciting. In the path that he blazed Stanley followed, did Livingstone and others. " It is thanks to his support," says La Grande Encyclopédie, "that Cameron, in 1874, and Stanley in 1876, and Wissman in 1882, could cross Africa.

Starting from the island of Zanzibar, his birthplace, Tippoo Tib crossed Africa by way of Lake Tanganyika, up through the vast stretch of what is now the Republic of the Congo. The journey took him eleven years, during which he traversed territory no one from the outer world had ever penetrated before. He fought his way through the primeval forest, forced himself into the lands of the tribes, and defeated chief after chief until he was master of a territory as large as Western Europe. He was by far the greatest of those who dominated in Central Africa just before the seizure of that region by the white man. Europeans who came into Africa were forced to reckon with him, among them King Leopold of Belgium, who was glad to come to terms with him. As to wealth, he was one of the richest men in the world of his time.

Tippoo Tib was born in 1837 and was three parts Negro and one part Arab. (And an Arab can often be a Negro, but because he has the slightest trace of Arab ancestry he is considered an Arab.) His father was the son of an Arab merchant from Muscat; his mother and grandmother were both full-blooded Negro women. His father had been a trader in ivory, gold, gum, cattle, and slaves, chiefly the last. But neither he nor any of the Arab merchants had ever penetrated deeply into the African interior. As a boy Tippoo Tib listened to his father's tales of the wealth that was waiting to be gathered there until he was seized by the desire to go himself...