Tsaunukan Farin Wata (Afirka)

Tsaunukan Farin Wata(Larabci;جبال القمر,Jibālu al-Qamar ko Jibbel el Kumri)  ) wani tsauni ne na almara ko tsaunuka a gabashin Afirka a tushen kogin Nilu . An yi bayyani iri-iri a wannan zamani, tsaunin Rwenzori na Uganda da Jamhuriyar Dimokaradiyyar Kwango ne aka fi yin bikin.

 Tsohuwar shaida 
Mutanen zamanin d ¯ a —musamman ma ’yan tarihin Girka na dā —sun daɗe suna sha’awar tushen kogin Nilu . Yawancin balaguro zuwa kogin Nilu sun kasa gano tushen.

Daga ƙarshe, wani ɗan kasuwa mai suna Diogenes ya ba da rahoton cewa ya yi tafiya cikin ƙasa daga Rhapta a Gabashin Afirka na kwanaki ashirin da biyar kuma ya gano tushen kogin Nilu. Ya ba da rahoton cewa, ta taso ne daga gungun manya-manyan tsaunuka zuwa cikin jerin manyan tafkuna. Ya ba da rahoton cewa 'yan asalin ƙasar suna kiran wannan yanki da Dutsen Wata saboda fari mai dusar ƙanƙara. [ana buƙatar hujja]An [ da ] rahotanni a matsayin gaskiya ta hanyar mafi yawan masu binciken ƙasa na Girka da na Romawa, musamman ta Ptolemy,  wanda ya samar da taswirar da ke nuna wurin da aka ruwaito na tsaunuka.

Marigayi masanan Larabawa, duk da cewa suna da masaniya game da Afirka, sun kuma ɗauka cewa rahoton gaskiya ne, kuma sun haɗa da tsaunuka a daidai wurin da Ptolemy ya bayar.

 Ganewar zamani 
Sai a zamanin yau ne Turawa suka koma neman tushen kogin Nilu. Masanin binciken Scotland James Bruce, wanda ya yi tafiya zuwa Gojjam, Habasha, a cikin 1770, ya binciki tushen kogin Blue Nile a can. Ya gano "Dutsen Wata" tare da Dutsen Amedamit, wanda ya bayyana cewa sun kewaye tushen Abay mafi ƙanƙanta "a cikin da'irori biyu kamar sabon wata. ... kuma ga alama, ta siffar su, sun cancanci sunan tsaunukan wata, kamar yadda aka ba da su ta zamanin da zuwa tsaunukan da ke makwabtaka da kogin Nilu ya kamata ya tashi "  .

James Grant da John Speke a cikin 1862 sun nemi tushen kogin Nilu a cikin Babban Tafkuna . Henry Morton Stanley a ƙarshe ya sami tsaunuka masu dusar ƙanƙara wanda zai iya dacewa da bayanin Diogenes a 1889 (sun guje wa masu binciken Turai na dogon lokaci saboda sau da yawa ana rufe su a cikin hazo). A yau da aka fi sani da tsaunin Rwenzori, kololuwar sune tushen wasu ruwan kogin Nilu, amma kaɗan ne kawai, kuma Diogenes zai haye Kogin Victoria don isa gare su.

Masana zamani da yawa suna shakkar cewa waɗannan tsaunin Wata ne da Diogenes ya kwatanta, wasu suna ganin cewa rahotanninsa ƙage ne. GWB Huntingford ya ba da shawarar a cikin 1940 cewa Dutsen Wata ya kamata a gano shi tare da Dutsen Kilimanjaro (duk da cewa Kilimanjaro dutse ne kaɗai keɓe maimakon wani dutse kuma ba ya ciyar da Kogin Nilu kwata-kwata), kuma "an yi masa ba'a a cikin J. Oliver Thompson's History of Ancient Geography da aka buga a 1948". Daga baya Huntingford ya lura cewa ba shi kaɗai ba ne a cikin wannan ka'idar, inda ya ambaci Sir Harry Johnston a 1911 da Dr. Gervase Mathew daga baya a 1963 bayan ya yi irin wannan ganewa.  OGS Crawford ya gano wannan kewayon tare da Dutsen Abuna Yosef a yankin Amhara na Habasha .

Isharori na Al'adu

Adabi
 A cikin littafin Miguel de Cervantes na shekara ta 1604 mai suna Don Quijote de la Mancha, jarumin littafin ya kwatanta karar wani kogin gida da yadda ruwa ke fadowa daga tsaunukan Moon. Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes, Edición Conmemorativa IV Centenario Cervantes, Real Academia Española, 2004, shafi na 175
 Littafin Henry David Thoreau na 1849 mai suna A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ya kwatanta tsaunukan Moon, tsaunukan Rocky, da tsaunukan Himalaya ("Himmaleh") da cewa suna da "muhimmanci na kashin kai a tarihin duniya".
 Waƙar Edgar Allan Poe ta shekarar 1849 mai suna "Eldorado" ta ambaci tsaunukan Moon. McIntee, David. Fortune and Glory: A Treasure Hunter’s Handbook. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 51. 
 Waƙar Vachel Lindsay ta shekarar 1914 (wanda aka rubuta a 1912) mai suna "Congo" ta ce "Daga bakin kogin Congo zuwa tsaunukan Moon".
 Littafin tafiya na 1931 mai suna Adventure! wanda Carveth Wells ya rubuta, ya bayyana yadda ya tsallaka Scott Elliot Pass, inda ya ga kankara mai dumi da "tsirrai na dā", da suka haɗa da lobelias masu tsawon ƙafa 10, groundsel masu tsawon ƙafa 30, da kuma babbar ciyawa mai kore ko rawaya. A wani babi, ya bada labarin mashahurin mai bincike Henry Morton Stanley da yadda gano tsaunukan Moon da ya yi a 1889 ya jawo rigima har aka cire su daga taswirori na shekaru da dama.
 A cikin littafin ban sha'awa na harshen Bengali na 1937 da Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay ya rubuta mai suna Chander Pahar, wanda ke nufin "tsaunukan wata". Littafin yana bayyana kasada da wani yaro dan Indiya ya yi a dazukan Afirka. 
 A cikin littafin yara na 1964 wanda Willard Price ya rubuta mai suna Elephant Adventure, labarin ya faru ne a tsaunukan Moon, inda bishiyu da sauran tsirrai na daji suka fi girma da kusan kashi ɗaya bisa uku fiye da sauran Afirka. Price ya danganta hakan da wani labari daga mujallar National Geographic na watan Maris 1962.
 Mountains of the Moon waƙa ce ta Grateful Dead wadda Robert Hunter (lyrics) da Jerry Garcia (kida) suka rubuta. An fara fitar da ita a kundinsu na AOXOMOXOA a 1969 daga kamfanin Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
 Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon littafi ne na uku a cikin jerin labaran steampunk na "Burton & Swinburne" da Mark Hodder ya rubuta.
 Littafin Pygmy Kitabu na Jean-Pierre Hallet ya ambaci tsaunukan Moon a matsayin tushen kogin Nilu (Random House 1973).
 Bisa ga J.K. Rowling da Pottermore, nan ne wurin da makarantar sihiri da tsibbu ta Uagadou ta ke a nahiyar Afirka.
 A cikin littafin The Quest na Wilbur A. Smith, Taita the Magus a cikin bincikensa na neman tushen kogin Nilu ya kai tsaunukan Moon inda mayya Eos ta kafa mafakar ta. Duk da cewa littafin bai bayyana kai tsaye cewa su ne tushen Nilu ba, yana nuna cewa tsaunukan suna da rawar gani wajen kirkirar kogin Kitangule wanda ke da alaƙa da kogin Nilu.

Fina-finai da talabijin
 Fim ɗin shekarar 1965 mai suna She wanda aka samo daga littafin H. Rider Haggard mai suna She: A History of Adventure ya faru ne a wata tsohuwar mazaunin Masar da ke cikin tsaunukan Moon.
 Fim ɗin Mountains of the Moon (1990) ya bayyana labarin Sir Richard Francis Burton da John Hanning Speke a cikin neman tushen kogin Nilu a shekarun 1850.
 Tsaunukan Moon sun bayyana a cikin shirin talabijin na Africa na 2013 wanda David Attenborough ya gabatar a BBC 1 a watan Janairu 2013.
 Wani fim mai suna Chander Pahar wanda aka samo daga littafi, wanda Kamaleshwar Mukherjee ya jagoranta, ya fara daukar hoto a watan Fabrairu 2013. Fim ɗin kamfanin Shree Venkatesh Films ne ya samar da shi kuma an dauki fim ɗin a wurare daban-daban a Afirka. An saki fim ɗin a ranar 20 ga Disamba 2013.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Tarihin Afirka