They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo

Published in 2009 by CARS Publications, They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo - the Never-been-ruled (Ndi Igbo since 1.6 million B.C.) is a 536 page work described as an Igbo renaissance handbook. According to They Lived Before Adam : Pre-historic Origins of the Igbo - the Never-been-ruled (Ndi Igbo Since 1.6 Million B.C.), the text claims that the Igbo people have origins dating back to 1.6 million B.C.

The book asserts that the Sumerian civilization grew from the same Edenic beginnings as the mother-pot of human civilization and the Out of Africa migrations. Acholonu claims to decode prehistoric African writing systems and civilizations based on the Ikom monoliths, as noted in Catherine Obianuju Acholonu. A portion of the work was presented at the 6th Annual Igbo Studies Conference at Howard University in 2008, where it received an enthusiastic response from scholars, according to THEY LIVED BEFORE ADAM: PRE-HISTORIC ORIGINS OF THE IGBO.

Catherine Obianuju Acholonu was born on October 26, 1951, in Orlu, Imo, Nigeria, and passed away on March 18, 2014. She is known for her controversial claims regarding African prehistory, including the assertion that she wrote They Lived Before Adam in approximately two weeks after receiving the contents as a revelation from God in a dream. As detailed in Catherine Obianuju Acholonu - Wikipedia, her work earned the Philis Wheatley Book Award and the Flora Nwapa Award for Literary Excellence, although her broader claims about prehistoric writing systems have faced poor critical reception.