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The Ifa divination system is a set of divination acts done by a professional that has been grantedauthority (a babalawo) to create and make use of set of rules to communicate with the gods so as to solvepeople’s problems. It is mostly carried out in the Yoruba community.Most people doubt the authenticity of this system and are not even aware of its similarities with ComputerScience. Further to this there are a few literature in this area of study. In this work effort was made to bringout salient similarities between the field of computer science and the act of ifa divination. An extensiveexplanation of the divination system was made, what it means and its origin and why people seek after it.We have presented an extensive explanation of the Ifa divination system, proved its existence andauthenticity, given and explained its similarities with Computer Science and presented a reference data forfuture work in this study.
http://www.academia.edu/5315636/A_Comparative_Study_of_Ifa_Divination_and_Computer_Science
The African Roots of Binary Code and Computers Explained by Ron Englash
Ron Englash explains the African roots of all and modern computing through African divination or oracle systems. This isn’t totally foreign to anyone having a little comprehension of geomancy, sacred geometry, the golden rule and African, Asian, European divination systems that preceded all secular activities.
We love this breakdown of what is natural to who he calls “Spirit People”. This just reinforces the idea that its no cliche, that Africa is the mother of civilization and if you don’t have an understanding of history you will believe anything presented to you by another. Truth is the solution. Imagine if this was taught in schools among other things. When public enemy was turned all the way up everybody was rocking African medallions, even white and asian folks.
We have met many who subscribe to the idea that slavery was a good thing or that traditional African cosmology spiritual systems like voodoo are taboo or “BAD” not realizing that their culture was taken from them waaay before they were born, told them that it was negative, used by the takers to progress economically and sold back to them in a different form.
Even today, Africans create movies about their traditional spiritual practices being negative. The programming is self generating just like binary numbers. These things are socially programmed through movies, advertising, and marketing, like “diamonds are a girls best friend” campaigns in the early 1900s. Today diamonds are often a prerequisite to choosing a life partner, and having kids with verses the character of the person. And character does include work ethnic because you have to have resources to support a family. So there’s someone who profits from marriages based on an idea or program that was inserted into the matrix around 100 years ago.
http://personaladvisory.com/2012/05/18/the-african-roots-of-binary-code-computers-and-most-electronic-devices-explained-by-ron-eglash/
You can watch his video talking about Fractals use in traditional African housing and designing their cities using this geometric system.
Basically breaking down that African divination is what we today refer to as binary code and interesting to learn that since many groups have condemned divination, we use everyday.