You can say pretty much say the same for the Arab world today too. Even though at one point the center of civilisation. They are all weak and useless today.
Italy
ethiopia survived the first one but second one they were occupied either way they had the Russian due to being orthodox church
Only tangentially like colour of skin but that will lead you down the wrong path.
I mean yeah but the majority of the Arab world is still more developed than the three countries I mentioned. I won’t judge Somalia or Ethiopia even though we’re very stupid and kill our own kind over nothing...if we stopped the infighting I think we could catch up. I think I have to stop having the same standards for the west and Africa and start looking at historical factors first
The Gulf Arabs, sure but the rest are not any better than South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria ect. Now look at Syria, Libya, Yemen.
Yes thank you. I am going to enrol in an African studies course this fall inshallah. What’s funny is I only learned about these ancient African civilizations this year and through social media initially. We always hype up the Romans and the UK, which isn’t a bad thing but we still need to appreciate others and learn where they went wrong. Mansa Musa has been written about my many old travellers, even Europeans but we never hear about him even though he would probably be worth 1 trillion today. Based on your replies and some research if been doing I think the white Europeans are good with technology which has helped them dominate, but they’re also good at fitna which has ultimately ruined everyone. Slavery wouldn’t have happened if Africans were more united, but we don’t see each other as a unit.
Slavery wasn't just an African thing, it happened all over the world. Millions of Europeans were enslaved by people from the middle east and north Africa in the last 600 years alone.
The context of slavery is different for each racial group though. White people were seen as a commodity, more specifically white woman. But black women, black children, asian women etc. were treated like animals. Regardless though whoever invented slavery, like saw an innocent person and decided to chain them up has straight up mental illness and we as Africans should really learn more about this so we can prevent it from happening again. My uncle said when he grew up in colonial Somalia, some white soldiers would use Somalis as human bridges when they didn’t want to get their boots wet...
Exactly. You know when I was at a plantation in the US, they would talk about really messed up shit they would do to black slaves. One slave owner took shit, stuffed it into the mouths of her slaves then sewed their mouths shut...Mainly white woman were affected by slavery and they weren’t treated nearly as badly since they were seen as a commodity
They wouldn't be able to get those slaves without those African Kingdoms supplying them. People focus too much on the end stage forget and exonerate the beginning.
It's pretty much the same. Slavery has been part of every single past civilisation. You think someone from 1000 years ago was better.
I don't see how they're different, it's still slavery.
I think African leaders are still short sighted which is why I hope educated diasporans can potentially help out and educate people so we don’t get fucked over. Honestly I don’t mean to sound rude but central Africa is beyond fucked in terms of whie worship and corruption. My uncle told me so many stories. These people will gladly sell out their own people for a couple million. East Africa still has potential if we start working together now. I’m kind of glad everyone has forgotten about Somalia because we haven’t had our resources pillaged like many African countries...All we need to do is wake up and do better
They believe that they are superior to everyone not just blacks. If they could source slaves from others they would.
A friend of mine also studies this and says you're wrong.
The slave trade in west/central africa already existed before the Europeans came to buy from African slavemasters.
This is ignorant. Europeans bought non-Christian slaves who could work their farms from other Africans that actually enslaved them. They couldn't enslave their fellow free Christians, the slave trade was already dead in Europe once the tribes around the Baltic region became fully Christianized.
That actually goes to the Arab/Indian ocean slave trade. For instance they'd castrate all their black non-Muslim male slaves, and >2/3 would die. Somalis also bantu slaves but they didn't do this.
