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Uploaded by on Apr 20, 2009

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  • @FIGHTFANNERD3 wrong we had a greate kingdom before the arabs came

  • @diyonisha without arabs there would be no ghana fact

  • they sold black slaves to arabs

  • @jumbomojokat thank the arabs for that

  • 3a) “I’m African-America, and I say ‘Ghana is a black-people’s country’.” just in case there is some confusion. Today, the Soninke may be Islamic almost 100% with maybe a few Maraka in the East as an acception, but, there is apparently little “racially” that is “Arabic” about them as they are often (not always) easily identified in the region because they are regularly (not always) so extremely black with very tightly curled hair. But, these are just the few I know (and have lived with).

  • 3) The Soninke people founded the ancient kingdom of Ghana. Just by coincidence (as I’m African-American and All/Pan-African ideologically, and I don’t respect one African nationality above another regardless of national accomplishment or phenotype), many of my African friends happen to be Soninke and have taught me enough Soninkanxanne to get by although my delivery or comprehension is not perfect as Soninkanxanne is spoken very very fast and is very mono-syllabic. But, at post “1” I said:

  • 2) Notice that the black flags of on the map at 2:26 (one at a place named “Fudam” [or “Sudan”] just under the big letters that say “Ginyia” [“Guinea” or “Ghana”] right in front of “Musa Melly” [or “Musa of Mali king of the Negroes of Gineua” or “Ghana”]) are shaped like the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for the words “km” (“black”) and “Kmt” (“Egypt”). This map was drawn by Spanish Jews in 1375 and is one of the “Catalan atlases of Abraham Cresques”.

  • 1) Kulludinke-n:nya:ni:N:ya:do:N:­ti:“Gana:nya:ni:sare-binne:jam­aane-n:nya“::

  • @snigr Kids. Calm yourself.

  • Major help and if u dont mind im using this on my project so thanks

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