Ancient Nigeria (Mexico, facts, Europeans, empire)

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Some west African history.

The Nok culture- 500 B.C-200 A.D

YouTube - #1 African History - The Nok



IIle-Ife a city of the Yoruba people.


YouTube - #2 African History - Ile Ife


The Benin Empire- 1440-1897


YouTube - Great Kingdom of Benin

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If you'd like to look futher into African history this German explorer's work may be of interest.

Heinrich Barth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[jtur88]

Pre-colonial history of Africa is one of the world's best-kept secrets. Very few people, even among those with a keen layman's interest in history, have ever even wondered what was going on on that continent before Europeans arrived.

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Very few people, even among those with a keen layman's interest in history, have ever even wondered what was going on on that continent before Europeans arrived.

That will be news to more than a few of the countries African American studies programs.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by ovcatto

That will be news to more than a few of the countries African American studies programs.

Most people have not enrolled in any courses in African American Studies,, so it could be news to most people.

It might be news to you to learn that people who have enrolled in courses in the history or Indochina will not be surprised when told that IndoChina has a rich history. I wonder what could account for that seemingly paradoxical coincidence. I don't know what we would do without a watchdog informing us that people who have studied a specialized history of a certain place are no longer surprised by the history of that place after completing the course.

Following me around from forum to forum ridiculing everything I say must be really a lor of fun, right?

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Originally Posted by jtur88

Pre-colonial history of Africa is one of the world's best-kept secrets. Very few people, even among those with a keen layman's interest in history, have ever even wondered what was going on on that continent before Europeans arrived.

There are many reasons for this but I think one thing that affects the teaching of sub saharan African history is that most of it's pre-colonial peoples didn't have writing so many of these Africans don't have written records of their history. This does put some limits on what and how much we can learn about these people.

[thriftylefty]

Arturo Schomburg a Hispanic Man Of African decent is largely responsible for a large collection of African History and Artifacts including Literature. He collected Items from around the world in the 1920-30's, By the time he donated nearly 5000 pieces of material to the New York city Library system it was the largest in the world, Today it is known as the Schomburg Center for the research and Study of African America Culture? It is in the Harlem branch of the Library and you can view the collection on line.

[thriftylefty]

Originally Posted by Motion

There are many reasons for this but I think one thing that affects the teaching of sub saharan African history is that most of it's pre-colonial peoples didn't have writing so many of these Africans don't have written records of their history. This does put some limits on what and how much we can learn about these people.

According to Clyde A. Winters and other writers (see Clyde A. Winters website), the Mende script was discovered on some of the ancient Olmec monuments of Mexico and were found to be identical to the very same script used by the Mende people of West Africa. Although the carbon fourteen testing date for the presence of the Black Olmecs or Xi People is about 1500 B.C.,

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Most people have not enrolled in any courses in African American Studies,, so it could be news to most people.

Have you ever consider employment as a grounds keeper with a stadium because you are very adept at moving goal posts.

You stated that "very few" people have studied pre-colonial Africa, not most, but very few. So when I post that there is a significant body of work produced by quite a few scholars and researchers, not just in the field of African studies, but anthropology and archeology as well who have examined the period for quite a few years, your rejoinder that "most people" haven't is hardly a worthy rebuttal.

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Originally Posted by thriftylefty

According to Clyde A. Winters and other writers (see Clyde A. Winters website), the Mende script was discovered on some of the ancient Olmec monuments of Mexico and were found to be identical to the very same script used by the Mende people of West Africa. Although the carbon fourteen testing date for the presence of the Black Olmecs or Xi People is about 1500 B.C.,

Be careful with Clyde Winter's information. I have questions about his accuracy. The Mende people didn't have a writing system until it was developed by Kisimi Kamara in 1921.

Kisimi Kamara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Writting believed to be the Olmec's wasn't discovered until 1999.

Oldest Writing in New World Discovered, Scientists Say