... irregardless of one's race, ethnicity, or nationality if they have something of substance to contribute concerning African history I'm open to learn ...
I think it was Muhammad said "Seek knowledge, even to China". Tellya one thing, Euro human population genomicists ain't tryinta hear that.
Euro pt o/view ain't necessarily bad. And even the most colonialist and/or supremacist writers have an exclusive gem or two. Here's one of who Mensa Xyyman would call a rank breaker.
Basil Davidson is where I learned Euros had to lease El Mina. Sometimes the Ashanti/Fante(?) rented it 2 or 3 Euro nations at once and told them to settle usage privileges among themselves. Can you spell PLAYED. So far I've found no Afrikan scholarship revealing that fact or how Euros had to pay docking, lodging, victuals, entertainment etc tariff & fees, sometimes for months before even allowed to see which humans they could purchase. Davidson's video series
Africa remains a priceless resource giving the attentive viewer a Masters of African Studies. I don't know why
GK Osei stayed so mad at him.
Also, a Euro was whom I learnt riverine Atlantic Savannah/Forest navies killed and sunk SW and NW Euro "explorers" who thought they could wander where they pleased. Is there any Afrikan researched or written on that?
You got no idea how frustrating it was 40 years ago to pick through the old
Slane French translation of
Tarikh es-Sudan and I can't remember if the
el-Fettash(sp) was ever xlated before now.
My only problem with
Hunwick is his refusal to acknowledge Jewish black presence in the Hausa(?) kingdoms that protected them from enslavers due to their infrastructure role.
Haha!
Haidara contributed to Tamar's and mine's old AfrAm Jews list.
I found the
es-Sudan to reflect Arab religious bias.
The author didn't believe his own kind capable of founding Wagadu.
The 'Tinbukt Home Chronicles', you've seen other than Malien & far western Sahel/Savannah history in 'em? Wow.
Have you noted 3 or 4 funny looking characters at the top right any of the works? Just like in Columbus' letters they'd indicate Jewish or Crypto-Jewish authorship.
Hnn, I went to university with an Adamawa descendant of Shehu Hamidou.
Ya man that's my Hal Pulaaren. Anti foreign colonization. "No we'll do the colonizing here, thank you." Of course with overdue honour & respect toward and forgiveness from the consequentially harmed among the conquered who resisted rather than join the new forming polities.
Ya, it's wi$e from all ends to localize holy sites even if you can afford to travel to the Judeo-Xian-Islamic holyland if so professing. Trick is to get foreign co-religionist to come on down.
Huophouët-Boigny gave it a spin w/his gigantimous cathedral not too long ago.
Did they fire shea butter coatings as a sealant for these cisterns?
Good to have you a fellow African Studies scholar on board.
Looking forward to more discussion and, more important, amicable argumentation. Disagreement leads to discovery. Scholars welcome precision and like being updated so as to discard out dated concepts.