The cities are where the population is. And their refuse, as the world's biggest toilet aka the Niger River indicates, spills across entire countries.
What is the "geocities" website in question and how is it relevant your dismissal of the content of an Africultures issue based on your aesthetic opinions alone
Not merely aesthetics. It's web source skepticism. What differentiates the website you gave from any other amateur webblog, geocities, or myspace posting?
I actaully gave you the name of Echenberg's book.
But nothing specific from it until I hounded you about it for 2 weeks, the entirity of which you vigorously resisted. Anybody can throw out a book title or author. If you can't show specifically what they say and represent it accurately you shouldn't expect others to take your word on it.
You refused to consult it.
You are the one who made the claim about the numbers. It was therefore your burden to show. Then, as now, you exhibited overt hostility toward meeting that burden.
The cities are where the population is most concentrated. With the possible exception of Nigeria, the majority of West Africans do not live in these large cities.
And their refuse, as the world's biggest toilet aka the Niger River indicates, spills across entire countries.
This typed by someone downstream from Minneapolis, Chicago, Saint Louis and Memphis.
What differentiates the website you gave from any other amateur webblog, geocities, or myspace posting?
First of all, it's not "amateur": It's the website of a respected journal of African history and culture. But since you don't seem to accept anything African as worthy of your consideration, that probably won't convince you.
Anybody can throw out a book title or author.
But nothing specific from it until I hounded you about it for 2 weeks, the entirity of which you vigorously resisted.
You would have to prove that. I gave you numbers. You wouldn't accept them because they came from an African journal whose website you didn't find aesthetically pleasing. I then gave you the information of a book that covered the subject in greater depth. When you refused to read it, I found the book myself and typed out the figures for to satisfy your petulant demands.
And anybody can check that book, especially when the author, title and publication information have been given.
Then, as now, you exhibited overt hostility toward meeting that burden.
I've become annoyed by your refusal to accept facts that do not support your skewed vision of the past.