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Truth of Slavery In West Africa- Who are Diasporan Africans?
DIASPORA AFRICANS ARE CHILDREN OF THE SONGHAI, BENIN & ASHANTI EMPIRES,. :-) Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, expressed racist attitudes toward black Africans: "The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and their proximity to the animal stage," Khaldun wrote. Another Arab writer, of the 14th Century, asked: "Is there anything more vile than black slaves, of less good and more evil than they?" The Black African Songhai Empire ruled about two thirds of West Africa, including the lands now called Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, Northern Nigeria and Niger. Gold was the greatest resource at the time PLEASE WATCH : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ULiQLBo3rCY http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=glOXTOwqjsk&feature=related The Majority of African Americans came from the Songhai/Benin/Ashanti Empire. THEIR WAS NO SUCH PLACE AS NIGERIA, SENEGAL, NIGER ETC, THATS EUROPEAN COLONIAL NAMES - Not one part of West Africa was unaffected by the Songhai Rules in the 14th Century AD. Only A few Afro Cubans/Brasillians came from Congo and Angola King Sonni Ali of Songhai was succeeded by Askia Muhammad Touré (1493-1528), who established a new dynasty, the Askia. Muhammad Touré continued Sonni Ali's imperial expansion by seizing the important Saharan oases and conquering Mali itself. From there he conquered Hausaland. In addition, Muhammad Touré further centralized the government by creating a large and elaborate bureaucracy to oversee his extensive empire. He was also the first to standardize weights, measures, and currency, so culture throughout the Songhay began to homogenize. Muhammad Touré was also a fervent Muslim; he replaced native Songhay administrators with Arab Muslims in order to Islamicize Songhay society. He also appointed Muslim judges, called qadis , to run the legal system under Islamic legal principles. These programs of conquest, centralization, and standardization were the most ambitious and far-reaching in sub-Saharan history until the colonization of the continent by Europeans. Songhay reached its greatest territorial expansion under Askia Daud (1549-1582), when the empire stretched all the way to Cameroon. With literally several thousand cultures under its control, Songhay was the largest empire in African history. When the Empire collapsed, due to an Arab and European invasion in 1591 AD, its intelligentsia were arrested by the conquerors and dragged in chains across the Sahara. One of these scholars was Professor Ahmed Baba. The author of 60 books, Professor Baba enjoyed a very high reputation. Amongst the Songhai, he was known as "The Unique Pearl of his Time". In a Moroccan text from the period, the praise for him was even more gushing. He is described as "the imam, the erudite, the high-minded, the eminent among scholars, Abu l-Abbas Ahmed Baba." A 17th century chronicle tells the tale of King Sonni Ali's slave-based farms. When he died 12 'tribes' of slaves were bequeathed to his son, at least three of which had been obtained when Sonni Ali initially conquered parts of the old Mali empire. Whereas under the Mali Empire slaves were individually required to cultivate a measure of land and provide grain for the king; Sonni Ali grouped the slaves into 'villages', each to fulfil a common quota, with any surplus to be used by the village. Under Sonni Ali's rule children born in such villages automatically became slaves, expected to work for the village or to be transported to the trans-Saharan markets BOOKS TO READ: "Afrique Noire", Louise Marie Diop-Maes is a human geographer Dr Chouki El Hamel: "Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century," in Disaporic Africa. A Reader, ed. by Michael Gomez, New York University Press, 2006. "The Songhay Empire" by David C Conrad "Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire:" Al-SA'DI's "Ta'Rikh Al-Sudan" "'Race', Slavery and Islam in the Maghrebi Mediterranean Thinking. The Question of the Haratin in Morocco" in Journal of North African Studies, 2002, volume 7, # 3. Thats What your politically correct professor fails to tell you Murray Gordon: "Slavery in the Arab World" What led to Slave Trading in Africa????? A change in the economy, culture and the increase of invaders Who were the first non African foreigners to penetrate West Africa?????? Portuguese Jews and Arabs How did the emergence of foreigners impact West African culture and Society???? New forms of trading began, Gold and later slaves Who were the slave raiders ???? The majority of the slave raiders were Black/Berber Islamic African Tribes although their were a few Europeans kidnappers. Many of these Islamic slave raiding tribes were also kidnapped Slavery in West Africa involved many different peoples. The Transaharan Slave Trade preceded the Transatlantic Slave Trade The Islamic Slave Trade sparked off the European Trade.