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This doesn't ring true at all. The Wolof language has no literary legacy and its use of Arabic script was limited and used intermittently. It was an extensive trade language. Same goes for your other examples. I sign of literacy and usage even among an elite would be a translated Koran or Bible. The first of which didn't appear in African languages until the 19th century at the earliest. Hausa and Yoruba Korans weren't translated until 20th century.
At the Bamum Palace Archives – a small dusty room inside the walls of the palace – are held over 7000 documents, many of which pre-date the arrival of the first Europeans in 1902. These documents are written in African languages and transcribed in an indigenous African writing system – the Bamum script of the Cameroon Grassfields.
I believe that no student in Europe is aware of the existence of African scriptures with no relation to arabic and european scriptures..
They should also be aware that Arabic numerals come from India and that the Latin alphabet, based on the Greek alphabet was based on Middle Eastern scripts.
City Data has too many people who declare themselves experts on everything without having any relevant academic credentials, work experience, or personal experience.
The Timbuktu manuscript for example where written Arab and Songhay going back to the Mali and Songhai empire. Your incorrect.
I don't think EdwardA was doubting the existence of these scripts, but was challenging your assertion that literacy was as widespread in Yoruba, Wolof and other lands as they were in Europe or the Middle East, where copies or the Bible or the Koran were common. It's not an emotional argument and it's not over nothing.
At the Bamum Palace Archives – a small dusty room inside the walls of the palace – are held over 7000 documents, many of which pre-date the arrival of the first Europeans in 1902. These documents are written in African languages and transcribed in an indigenous African writing system – the Bamum script of the Cameroon Grassfields.
I believe that no student in Europe is aware of the existence of African scriptures with no relation to arabic and european scriptures..
No students in Europe or America. I didn't know about these writing systems until well into adulthood post college.
Regarding the Igbo Nsibidi writing. There is a large amount of info online. This is the one I believe that was purely indigenous with no Arabic influence and appeared many centuries before colonial era.
But back to Mali, Timbucktu has a Jewish population and even today there are still some Jews in Mali.
They were Shemites. Many modern-day Africans are descendants of Ham. The Shemites were the educated...many of the ones who were later sold into slavery. The OP's post has some interesting information. Some of those tribes were not African (Hamites) by lineage. They just dwelled in Africa.
They were Shemites. Many modern-day Africans are descendants of Ham. The Shemites were the educated...many of the ones who were later sold into slavery. The OP's post has some interesting information. Some of those tribes were not African (Hamites) by lineage. They just dwelled in Africa.
Lol. No such thing as a "Hamite". Any Jewish populations in black Africa are certainly not the result of descent from fictional biblical characters.
So was Vikings/Scandinavian "architecture" equal or inferior to Ashanti "architecture" ?
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