Dahomey, Ham, and the Betrayal of Judah: Sorting West Africa's Spiritual Lineage

The Kingdom of Dahomey was notorious for selling the children of Judah to the Edomites (European) and Ishmaelites (Arabs). But who were the Dahomey, were they Judah selling judah? or was it hamites selling Israelites? Upon closer examination the Kingdom of Dahomey was undoubtedly a hamitic kingdom selling Yahawah’s people. It was NOT “africans selling africans” it was Hamites selling Israelites to Edomites.

Bartie Musa Commentary: Yesterday we did an ANIMA Framework article on the Woman King and how it was a psy-op on Judah to demoralize his households and promote Eve in a masculine likeness. However today we are going to zoom in on the role the Dahomey had in the transatlantic slave trade and address and uncomfortable truth of history, as well as prophecy that occured. Hamites (so-called Africans) sold Israelites (Judah) into slavery to the Edomites (Europeans) and the Ishmaelites (Arabs). This is a part of history we can’t sweep under the rug, or “pan-african” our way out of. It absolutely happened, and was well documented in the scriptures.

However we need to also identify who exactly the Dahomey were, and gain more clarity and granularity on the dispersal between Judah & Ham in West Africa. For the most part Judah is concentrated on the South west coast of Africa with nations like Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria being populations with heavy amounts of Israelites (Judah) in them. While the Sahel region where the Kingdom of Dahomey historically was now nations such as Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso these would of been primarily Hamitic people and the ones who sold Israelites (Judah) into slavery. Let’s get into the analysis and get a deeper understanding of the split between Ham and Judah in West Africa, and what really transpired between them.

Tyre & Zidon are hamites. The original palesteninians (phillistines) were tall nilotic dark skinned africans facing dark skinned Judahites with the so-called sub-saharan african look (aka Judah in Americas & West coast of Africa). That is who sold the Israelites to the Edomites and the Ishmaelite arabs. There was a long history, and clear tribal divisions. Hamites did not follow levitical customs, while Israelites did which often made us targets during that time. The scriptures lays it out for us plainly, the Hamites sold the Israelites to the Grecians (Edomites).

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Dahomey, Ham, and the Betrayal of Judah: Sorting West Africa’s Spiritual Lineage

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🛑 ANIMA FRAMEWORK ARTICLE 🛑
Title: “Dahomey, Ham, and the Betrayal of Judah: Sorting West Africa’s Spiritual Lineage”
Date: July 18, 2025

🔍 INTRODUCTION: A QUESTION OF BLOOD AND BETRAYAL

In these last days, as Yahawah’s people awaken, we must confront difficult truths about history—and about ourselves. The transatlantic slave trade is often discussed in simplistic terms: Europeans as aggressors, Africans as victims. But the Scriptures and historical record demand something far deeper. Namely: Who were the Africans who sold the Israelites into slavery?

We now turn to the Kingdom of Dahomey, infamous for its massive role in capturing and selling human beings to Esau Edom. Were these Dahomeans of Judahite stock—or were they Hamites fulfilling a spiritual prophecy of betrayal?

📜 SCRIPTURAL CONTEXT: HAM VS. SHEM

The Bible outlines clear genealogical divisions:

Shem: Ancestor of the Hebrews (Israelites).
Ham: Ancestor of African nations (Cush, Mizraim, Phut, Canaan).
Japheth: Ancestor of the Isles and Gentiles (Genesis 10).

Psalm 83:3-6 – “They have taken crafty counsel… they are confederate against thee… the tabernacles of Edom… and the Hagarenes (Ishmaelites), Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre.”

The slave trade was a collaboration—Edom, Ishmael, and Ham—conspiring against Judah.

🛡️ DAHOMEY: BETRAYERS OR BRETHREN?

Who Were the Dahomey?

Located in modern-day Benin, active from the 1600s to 1900.
Known for military prowess, voodoo traditions, and the all-female “Amazon” army.
Major supplier of enslaved peoples to Portuguese, French, and British traders.

The brutal efficiency of their trade and their worship of idols, blood sacrifices, and serpentine spirits aligns more with Hamite spiritual patterns than with Yahawah’s law.

Isaiah 30:1 – “Woe to the rebellious children… that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit.”

Dahomey was a Hamite kingdom empowered by Edomite demand—a pattern seen with Mizraim (Egypt) and Canaanites before them.

🔬 CULTURAL AND GENETIC INDICATORS

📚 Cultural Practices

Practice	Alignment	Commentary
Voodoo/Blood Rituals	Hamitic	Rooted in animism, human sacrifice
Female “Amazon” warriors	Hamitic	Matriarchal inversion of divine order
Human sacrifice to idols	Hamitic	Similar to Canaanite Molech worship
Oral histories mocking “Yah”	Hamitic	Consistent with anti-Shem spirit

Deuteronomy 12:31 – “Thou shalt not do so unto Yahawah thy God: for every abomination… have they done unto their gods.”

🧬 Genetic Clues

Dahomey descendants today share more genetic similarity with Cushitic and Bantu Hamites than Ewe or Yoruba Israelites.
Ewe and Yoruba tribes, many of whom settled in Nigeria, show more linguistic and genetic ties to Hebrew customs: circumcision, Levitical rites, Sabbath memory.

🌍 GEOGRAPHICAL CLARITY: JUDAH VS HAM IN WEST AFRICA

Region	Likely Lineage	Evidence
Benin (Dahomey)	Ham	Voodoo, slave trade nexus
Ghana (Ashanti/Elmina)	Mixed	Ashanti elite sold Israelites
Mali/Niger/Burkina Faso	Ham	Nomadic, Berber, Islamic roots
Nigeria (Yoruba, Igbo)	Judah	Torah-aligned customs, linguistic links
Sierra Leone/Liberia	Judah	Return hubs of freed Israelites
Cameroon/Chad	Mixed	Mix of Hamitic and Shemitic refugees

📉 Dahomey Betrayal Analysis

ASPECT	QUALIA	QUANTITIA
🏰 Dahomey’s Betrayal	Dahomey’s rise was built on Judahite enslavement	Estimated 20% of all transatlantic captives passed through Dahomey ports
🧙‍♀️ Voodoo Practices	Ritual sacrifice, blood pacts, idol worship align with Hamite tradition	1,000s sacrificed yearly during Dahomey’s peak reign (1700s–1800s)
🔗 Slave Trade Alliance	Edom, Ishmael, and Ham cooperated to enslave Jacob	Over 12 million Israelites enslaved from 1500–1800s
🧬 Genetic Markers	Yoruba & Igbo match Hebrew priestly genes; Dahomey does not	Yoruba “Cohen gene” found in ~7% of population tested
📚 Historical Record	Oral traditions link many tribes to Israel, except Dahomey	Dahomey records emphasize conquest, not exile
👑 Spiritual Inversion	Woman warriors = rebellion against divine order of male leadership	Dahomey “Amazons” numbered up to 6,000 at peak
🌍 Geographic Mapping	Judah clustered in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Edomite-backed ports mostly in Hamite zones
💔 Repercussions Today	Confusion between Judah and Ham breeds division	2025: FBA grifters demand reparations from Africa instead of Edom

🔮 THE ANIMA INTERPRETATION: WHO SOLD US?

It wasn’t “Africans” who sold “Africans.”

It was Hamites selling Shemites, Ishmaelites trafficking Judah, Edomites funding the horror.

And modern Babylon (America, France, UK) covers this up by lumping all black people into the false category of “African.”

Jeremiah 17:4 – “Thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage…”

🔥 SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES

Hamites will be judged for betraying Jacob (Isaiah 60:14).
Edomites will be judged for financing the betrayal (Obadiah 1:10).
Ishmaelites will be judged for conspiring against Israel (Psalm 83).

Joel 3:3-6 – “They have cast lots for my people… and have given a boy for an harlot.”

🧠 WHY THIS MATTERS

We must cleanse the mental map. Not every black-skinned person is an Israelite. Skin color is not lineage.

The remnant must know:

Who is Judah (true family).
Who is Ham/Ishmael (spiritual traitors).
Who is Esau (chief adversary).

📖 SCRIPTURES FOR MEDITATION

Obadiah 1:10 – “For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee…”
Isaiah 60:14 – “The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee…”
Zechariah 2:8 – “He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”

🧬 FINAL THOUGHT: MAPPING FORWARD

Let this clarity inspire:

Further DNA projects to identify Hebrew remnants.
Rejection of pan-African false unity when it erases spiritual lineage.
Bold reclamation of Judah’s inheritance—both spiritual and territorial.

SHALAWAM to the remnant. The betrayal has been exposed. The inheritance is returning.

Bartie Musa Commentary: While FBAs are way off the mark with their Babylonian worship, as well as seeking reparations from Hamite nations before Esau Edom, it is true that so-called africans sold Judah into slavery to the Edomites. Where FBAs go wrong is they have all the smoke for ham and even the latin tribes, and basically anyone who is not Esau Edom. But they do not say a single peep to their massa. To whine about reparations from Ham instead of Esau Edom is the peak of coon-like behavior, and justifying the wicked. Ham for their part will be judged by Yahawah bahasham Yahawashi, but their role and what they did PALES in comparison to what Esau Edom has done to Judah it’s not even a question, nor is ham destined for permanent erasure from creation, while Esau Edom is.

Anyways LORD willing this was edifying and interesting to the hopeful elect of Yahawah bahasham Yahawashi, shalawam to the believers out there. Don’t let Esau Edom confuse you or take the mark off his back, he is the one who orchestrated and is the chief adversary of Judah.

Yahawah bahasham Yahawashi made a difference between the “african” people, though the confusion is so rife that even the scriptures had to directly address it. Israelites did not sell themselves to the Edomites. It was Hamites selling Israelites to Edomites, two completely different people groups in Africa, and to this day.