isaac Samuel
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#TriviaxtThread on economic dynamics of slave trade: why most west african states exported enslaved ppl and why some states didn't export them despite the overwhelming economic incentives (by extension political
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Mega thread for manuscripts, inscriptions, documents and other pieces of writing from africa (ex-north)The oldest from WestAfrica come from cities associated with ancient ghana b'tn 950-1150AD-plaques from its capital kumbi
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Monastery of Ghazali 500AD, makura -christian nubia hope to include more entries from sudan's christian period 500-1400AD,more;https://books.google.co.ug/books/about/The_Nubi
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That's the al-fattash chronicleboth tarikhs (along with major West African chronicles like Ibn furtu's) have been fully translated -by R.Palmer in the 1900s and recently by Hunwick in "timbuktu and
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european travellers often mentioning something along the lines of "never witnessed such order and real elegance in Africa" abt almost every major african kingdomwas more about their preconceptions of the
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