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The idea of black people always being dominated by others is to believe they are weak and inferior. I am very disgusted about the lack of interest in this subject and very few people seem interested in bringing more accurate information on this to light. I shortened this to 9 videos and I think I provided enough information that most people will rethink historical Afro-Arab relations. Read the descriptions box in the videos for sources and to learn more
I added the video about debunking "Guns Germs and Steel" to the list because it shows the influence of languages and contacts between Africans. From the video talking about Hausa: "It serves not only as the mother-tongue of fifteen millions of Negroes, but as a lingua franca between Sudanese tribes of difierent tongues, and even as a world-speech between Sudanese and Mediterranean Africa, It is remarkable for simplicity, elegance and wealth of vocabulary. It ranks among man's imperial languages—the Latin of Central Sudan" More on languages from the same video Zanzibar has always been part of Bantu civilization "The rapidity with which the Kiswahili tongue of Zanzibar—a very convenient, simple, and expressive form of Bantu speech— has spread far and wide over East Central Africa, and has even gained a footing on the Congo, hints at the possibility of the Bantu Negroes at some future time adopting a universal Bantu language for inter-communication." For these Africans to be so influential as scholars there had to have been some tradition of intellectualism so this is good evidence of the spread of ideas in both directions. "The scholars of Timbuctoo yielded in nothing to the saints and their miracles. During their sojourns in the foreign universities of Fez, Tunis, and Cairo, ' they astounded the most learned men of Islam by their erudition.' That these negroes were on a level with the Arabian savants is proved by the fact that they were installed as professors in Morocco and Egypt. In contrast to this we find that the Arabs were not always equal to the requirements of Sankore" Racists want to believe that so called Arabs built everything in Africa. Its a method of dividing and conquering people by western colonialists because it tries to make certain people feel superior "The Axumite kingdom is an excellent case in point. Being such an important example of African cultural development, a European myth of external (South Arabian) origins for this culture solidified in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has taken on the quality of truth for most scholars today. In fact, there is little evidence for this other than the powerful pull of ideology, which states that Africa cannot produce culture, civilizations, or history." Also ignored history is the huge African presence in Arabia. "Ibn Khallikan mentions a celebrated Negro Khalif, who reigned at Bagdad in the ninth century.He describes him as a man of great merit, and a perfect scholar. None of the sons of Khalifs spoke with greater propriety and elegance, or composed verses with greater ability....." This is before racism in the Arab world (which developed especially with western colonialism) "Listen to one guarantee for all, our own incomparable Niabuhr: "The principal characteristic of the negro is, especially when he is reasonably treated, honesty towards his masters and benefactors. Mohammedan merchants in Cairo, Jeddah, Surat, and other cities, are glad to buy boys of this kind; they have them taught writing and arithmetic, carry on their extensive business almost entirely through negro slaves, and send them to establish business places in foreign countries." Another very interesting quote "They say; If a Zanji and a Zanji women marry and their children remain after puberty in Iraq, they come to rule the roost thanks to their numbers, endurance, knowledge, and efficiency. On the other hand, the child of an Indian and an Indian woman, or of a Greek and a Greek woman, or of a Khurasani and a Khurasani women remain among you and in your country in the same condition as their fathers and mothers"..... On the Zanj revolt: "If more proof is needed that it was not a slave revolt, it is to be found in the fact that it had a highly organized army and navy which vigorously resisted the whole weight of the central government for almost fifteen years. Moreover, it must have had huge resources that allowed it to build no less than six impregnable towns in which there were arsenals for the manufacture of weapons and battleships. These towns also had in their mammoth markets prodigious wealth which was more than the salt marshes could conceivably produce. Even all the booty from Basra and the whole region could not account for such enormous wealth. Significantly the revolt had the backing of a certain group of merchants who preserved with their support until the very end. Tabari makes it very clear that the strength of the rebels was dependent on the support of these merchants. " |
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East Africa. The far greater part of the wars in Africa - the slave trade part 2
July 15, 2009, 03:31 PM
Zanzibar became defiled by slave trading especially in the 18th and 19th centuries one of the greatest tragedies in history. The slave traders plunged deep into the continent wreaking havoc and destruction.
The Omani Arabs would be the equivalent of the Dahomeans. I see Z...
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African Holocaust and Removal of Agency
July 14, 2009, 06:30 AM
Also read "The Removal of Agency from Africa"
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markellion
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On Islam Colonialists would be just as frustrated with nominal Christianity. Perry Noble saw Islam as being weak and lazy in making compromises.
But when you think about it Jesus Christ was a Shaman he exorcised people and everything http://books.google.com/books? "The crowning benefit bestowed upon the benighted Negro by Islam, its advocate triumphantly exclaims, is belief in the one true God. Is not this an advance, an immense advance, upon fetichism and idolatry? This depends on the content and effect of the idea of God in Islam and in African paganism. If the two members of this religious equation prove of equal value, the answer must be: x=y and the gain is zero" http://books.google.com/books? "Muhammad's mythology of angels and demons, of ghouls and jinns assimilates itself with Negro beliefs in good and evil spirits...Heathen character and pagan customs remain largely unchanged after conversion" |
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"AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION"
http://www.afrikaworld.net/afr African religion has been portrayed as barbaric or childish in the media like crazy. A word of advice some may claim to be practicing traditional beliefs but it can often be just a bunch of random stuff a quack witch doctor came up with.Traditional beliefs can have some barbaric features in it too but Perry Noble said it very well in a paternalistic colonial kind of way http://books.google.com/books? "The Negro is a born diplomat, orator and trader; and his inner life finds expression in a folk=lore not without poetry and power and in a theological thought possessing lofty and noble ideas, however concealed and defiled by superstition and witchcraft." |
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markellion
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Newton talks specifically about the slave trade on pages 227-252 "Thoughts on the slave trade"
I'll have to read it later. I have a feeling this will be very eye opening. I recommend for anyone to be open minded to modify their opinions on this delicate and complex subject I'll talk about it more this weekend |
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Bellow is from John Newton (ex slave trader and guy who wrote amazing grace)
http://books.google.com/books? "I verily believe, that the far greater part of the wars, in Africa, would cease, if the Europeans would cease to tempt them, by offering goods for slaves. And though they do not bring legions into the field, their wars are bloody. I believe, the captives reserved for sale are fewer than the slain. I have not sufficient data to warrant calculation but, I suppose, not less than one hundred thousand slaves are exported, annually, from all parts of Africa, and that more than one-half of these are exported in English bottoms. If but an equal number are killed in war, and if many of these wars are kindled by the incentive of selling their prisoners ; what an annual accumulation of blood must there be, crying against the nations of Europe concerned in this trade, and particularly against our own !" |
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markellion
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Just so everyone knows, and this is extremely important, I don't think the slave trade was important until the mid 17th century. As sick as slave trading is it exists everywhere. Initially the Portuguese bought African slaves from one place and sold them to the gold coast (those slaves would eventually become part of society). Also even in the Americas slaves could become part of society.
I believe that the slave trade was initially simply an extension of African wars already going on. It was later that African wars became more connected to the slave trade |
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markellion
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"Early Kongo-Portuguese Relations, a New Interpretation" by John Thornton page 7
http://www.fiu.edu/~ogundira/T he shows that Portuguese involvement in Kongo affairs was over exaggerated in the 16th and early 17th century "In this respect Kongo resembled Benin, which had also acquired slaves and sold them t o the Portuguese in exchange for military assistance during their wars of expansion, but had also dropped out of the slave trade by the early seventeenth century Like Benin, too, Kongo made most of her exchange with the Portuguese in cloth , which the Portuguese re-exported to other parts of Africa in order to acquire slaves. Kongo thus had complete political control over its own development, and trade considerations were alway secondary to the main logic of this development, which was dictated by internal needs and not by external pressures from trading partners" |
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markellion
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"Trans-Saharan Trade and the West African Discovery of the Mediterranean World" by Pekka Masonen
http://www.smi.uib.no/paj/Maso "However, in 1544, Sultan Muhammad al-Mahdi, the founder of Sa'did power in Morocco, demanded the ruler of Songhay, askia Ishaq I, to give him the mines. Askia Ishaq naturally refused to do it, and a war broke out. The Moroccans sent an army to occupy Taghaza, but the army was destroyed in the desert. As response to this, a Songhay army consisting of Tuaregs, attacked northwards and sacked the southern parts of Morocco, forcing Sultan Muhammad to flee from Marrakesh. Similarly, the rulers of Bornu, lying around Lake Chad, were able to expand their political dominance deep into Fezzan, occupying the oases until the 16th century." |
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markellion
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But it is not the colonizers that are deceiving themselves, It is the colonized, the common people of all colors all over the world
Bellow is from: "Translation and the Colonial Imaginary: Ibn Khaldun Orientalist", by Abdelmajid Hannoum © 2003 Wesleyan University. "Despite the increasing interest in translation in the last two decades, there has been no investigation of the translation of historiography and its transformation from one language to another. This article takes as a case study the translation into French of Ibn Khaldûn, the fourteenth-century North African historian. It considers specifically the translation done by William de Slane in the context of the colonization of Algeria. The Histoire des Berbères, the French narrative of Ibn Khaldûn that relates to the history of Arabs and Berbers in the Maghreb, has become since then the source of French knowledge of North Africa. |
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markellion
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I feel obliged to inform people that many Arabic translations were done in a very racist way. "The Negroland of the Arabs examined and explained" by William Desborough Cooley was written in 1841 and actually offers a less skewed translation of Ibn Khaldun than later colonial would come up with. Words like White, black, Negro (which is used in the title) shouldn't be taken seriously because it doesn't have the same meaning as the original Arabic it was translated from.
Still I highly recommend reading pages 61-65 of this book which deals with Ibn Khaldun's history where he talks about the Western Sudan (west Africa). Several racist myths are broken apart http://books.google.com/books? |
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What Cheikh Anta Diop says bellow is interesting because colonialists seemed most interested in saying Arabs/Persians dominated the Zanj (ethnic group in East Africa Zanzibar is one of their cities)
""no Arab army ever crossed the Sahara in an attempt to conquer Africa, except for the Moroccan war of the sixteenth century. During the period of our study, from the third to the seventeenth centuries, not one conquest was ever launched by way of the Nile: That of the Sudan (modern country), accompanied with the help of England, came only in the nineteenth century. Nor was there ever an Arab conquest of Mozambique or any other East African country.""
-Pre-colonial Black Africa, page 101
""The Arab conquests (in black Africa) dear to sociologists are necessary to their theories but did not exist in reality. To this day no reliable historical documents substantiate such theories.""
-Pre-colonial Black Africa, page 102