Obaba Museum

Now, sitting to think about it, I realize I didn’t quite think that history might actually have its own history. You know how everything we do now has a reason and a beginning, something that was recorded or told to us by our grand parents under the light of the moon at night, something we read in books that gives us the reason why things are happening the way they are, but I have never heard or paid attention to the origin of history.

I made some research about history and I found out that, it is gotten from the Greek word “Historia” which means “learning or knowing by inquiring”, and that the word History entered English Language in 1390. When I found this, some questions popped into my head, like, how do Historians {people who look into the depts of an event or a thing} find the etymology of such old words and also give dates to them? They are so good at what they do. History according to findings is said to be the systematic written account of events particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes, personally this definition is too long and as a lot of big words so here is a shorter on, History is the arrangement of past event, events that resulted to how we live our life presently. Apart from what we read online and in books could there be another hidden meaning to what History means? For me the only hidden thing I see in History is the fact that removing the “HI” in History leaves you with “STORY”, and story is what is told or written fiction or Non-fiction, real or not.

History can not only be what had happened years back but also what has happened yesterday, eight hours ago, history is something that have lived and not what you are living or is about to live, there is is saying that goes thus “Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery and Today, Today is a Gift that is why it is called Present”, It acknowledges the fact that whatever happened yesterday is past, even what happened a minute ago is still history. Now the history of historical study, it’s methodology and practices are called historiography, an historical theory {History of History}. I have not seen a thing that doesn’t have its own history, nationally, geographically, chronologically, even our culture, religion, and social life it’s characterized by it. History is to educate on the reason why things are meant to be done in such a way and who invented it and thought it wise to bring theories that have solved a lot of problems which may have led to anarchy in the world.

History brings those people and their reasons and motives to light for us, in the present time, to appreciate, it also brings out past events as reference to settle present issues, just the way the judiciary does – once a case has been solved in the past and the same reoccurs in the present, the judge would go back to the records of that case to solve the present case. This is what they call judicial precedent.

Come to think about it, what if there was never history, something to record events or to take notes of what had happened in the past, how would the world look like? How would things turn up?