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. "

The surprising level of knowledge and skill of Africans

African American innovators and inventors and skills brought from Africa

Documentary on business and Entrepreneurship in Africa