''Never built a boat that was sea worthy"
''No houses above one level built out of stone''
Two storey stone houses in Zayla along an old district
Ruins of stone houses and two storey homes after the Italian's bombed Bosaso (Bandar Qasim)
Three separate medieval descriptions of Northern Somali coastline.
''Piled stones and stamped earth are used to build homes of tree to four storeys."
''Tires of stones comprise the dwellings of the people''
''It is very populous with good houses of stone and white-wash and good streets, the houses are covered with terraces, the dwellers in them are black"
There were interior stone towns, villages, settlement and cities dotted across from Northern Somalia into Ogaden.
''No sewage systems''
When archeologists examined one of the towns they didn't necessary find sewage systems in the modern sense, but they found drainage and water supply infrastructure across the hilly landscapes
Some more on this:
Aside from that you can find works of cisterns, deep stone wells and even an aqueduct near Berbera i've talked about in my agricultural revolution thread.
Imagine a pastor claiming Black people "don’t know anything about the world," while he himself doesn’t know the basics of geography or history.
First of all, most of Africa aside from North and East Africa lacked natural harbors that could accommodate large seafaring vessels. That’s why maritime activity and shipbuilding were limited in many inland or western regions.
Second, people everywhere build with what’s available and affordable in their environment.
That’s why thatching exist all over the world including in Europe and were in use well into the early modern period.
Clearly, he doesn’t even know his own history. The so-called “Dark Ages” in Europe were marked by widespread illiteracy, ignorance, poor sanitation, and peasant huts , not too different from what they ridicule in others today.
This is exactly where white supremacist rhetoric collapses: Europe too had long stretches of backwardness, slum living, and educational collapse even into the 19th century during industrialization.
This how some parts of Paris looked like in the early 20th century:
Many Europeans today still live in rural poverty or in trailer parks in the American South under conditions not far removed from what they mock.
So what happened to the supposed "superior IQ"? Did they temporarily lose it and magically rediscover it when it became convenient? Or were their material conditions shaped by changing historical, environmental, and political factors like every other society?
The real irony is this, when it comes to Europe, people apply nuance. They look at diversity, historical context, and structural change. But when it comes to Africa or non-European peoples, they revert to overgeneralized caricatures flattening complex realities into lazy stereotypes.
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