He leaves out the fact the biggest export from these ports were slaves destined for the Arab world.
European colonization was (for the most part) the best thing that ever happened to Africa and the rest of the Third World.
And the retreat of Europeans from the third world was a tragedy.
>>Black Panther could blow one of history’s greatest lies right out of the water.<<
Well, not really. It is considered 100% fantasy and will be viewed buy the audience like “Shangra La.”
No one will say “oh, Wadanka is how Africa REALLY is/was.”
Ever notice that there are no descendants of former slaves in the Arab world? It is because they cut certain very important parts off the men slaves.
Sub-Saharan Africa never invented the wheel which really tells you all you need to know. All this fantasy about great African accomplishments is just that, a fantasy. A few largish, primitive cities that were not self-sustaining just shows that they were failures over time.
If native Africa was so great, where is the proof? Where are the written languages? The books? The invention of math, advanced metallurgy, sewage and sanitation systems, roads, farming, universities, ships, navigation, the Enlightenment, beautiful Renaissance artwork?
The author posits a handful of great cities built by natives, then jumps 1,000 years to fantastic Islamic cities in Africa. Ergo, the islamists were the first to colonize Africa with imported technology.
This article strikes me as the typical liberal wet dream of “all cultures are equally good.” What a crock of hooey. If Africans were so brilliant and advanced, why can’t they live like civilized people in Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc?
It wasn't the Europeans that did them in either.
Many of the ‘lost’ cities mentioned were in existence thousands of years before mussulman existed, or Christianity, for that matter. Chattel slavery came much later with the coming of Islam.
All of this was documented long ago when I was in college back in the 60s. This is just a new exposure to old history. I’d cite the books if you wish.
More BS spewing from the Marxist left.
Black Panther...That’s racist!
And the descendants of these great African civilizations just captured 110 young girls into slavery.
Some undertones of this “Afro-futuristic city” that no one is talking about. (I haven’t seen the movie. not until someone steals it and shows it to me)
Nobody has a car or their own flying plane / ship. The elite do.
It has an advanced public transportation.
It has advanced public housing.
They make weapons.
They are all trained in combat of some sort.
There is some sort of different written language, but everyone speaks English. The written language is gooblygook.
If I was black I would be insulted by this.
‘Black Panther’ and the Real, Lost Wakandas”
Is that where the Fukarewe tribe is froom?
Um, so they were NOT African, but Muslim, using technology and architecture brought from the Middle East, Asia and Europe, not Black Africa.
“Early history across the world is timelined with frequent disappearances that remain unexplained; this one, like others, could have been as a result of sudden climate change, in the form of drought, as a result of some kind of plague, or war.”
Civilizations rose and fall in relation to their adherence to the laws of nature and the laws of God. These civilizations are founded on moral and just laws. When they rejected God, they began practicing idolatry, witchcraft, and sexual immorality. These things escalate to sexual perversion and human sacrifice. At this point civilization collapses. It has happened repeatedly down through history. And the only reason historians label these collapses as “unexplained” is because they choose to be blind to the reasons.
“When a president of the United States can talk about sending Africans ‘back to their huts’ it’s going to take a lot more than a Marvel superhero to get us to where we need to be.”
Quite frankly, when a “journalist” can make such blood libel in contribution to an insurrection, he should be executed for it.
The claim was made in the NYT times and other places from anonymous sources that Trump, in a private meeting, said Nigerians would never go back to their huts. And why would they want to? The context of this is Trump saying we need an immigration policy that benefits America.
This is a twist of a twist of a lie. The author is essentially asserting that Trump is trying to engage in ethnic cleansing.
If Trump said anything remotely similar to the hut comment, it was NOT a suggestion that anyone was going to try to force black people to go back (and again we are not talking about black American citizens) to their country of origin.
So sick of the lies. People are literally dying because of the enemedia’s lies.
I give a sh** how Clive?!
He leaves out the fact.
It’s the art of the media it’s not what they report it’s what they don’t report see the masters CNN.
Building a city like ancient Athens or Rome is one thing. A hermit kingdom building a Star Trek shuttlecraft is something else.
We wuz KANGS!