Lets Talk African History:"Sahel" West African Civilizations

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Thats ashame...


HISTORY of the Bassa Script

Again don't know how true the red bolded is... Also I thought the Vai script is kinda recent and created by a man named Momolu Duwalu Bukele in the 1830s?

I could be mixing up Vah and Vai but im sure the Vai Script is older than the 1800s. I believe the Vai and Mandinka( we call em Mandingo) were two of the main Mande Groups that the rulers of mali,songhai, etc came from.

And with me being Liberian I think thats why i have the perspective I do on the history of Blacks in Africa and the Americas being that my culture was literally a mixture of Southern African American, Carribean, and Indiginous African culture. So my perspective on certain situations differ than say a Nigerian which most people use as the standard whem they talk about their experience with "Africans".

 

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I could be mixing up Vah and Vai but im sure the Vai Script is older than the 1800s. I believe the Vai and Mandinka( we call em Mandingo) were two of the main Mande Groups that the rulers of mali,songhai, etc came from.

Not a fan of Wikipedia... but.
Vai syllabary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

^^States that its origins are 1830s.

And with me being Liberian I think thats why i have the perspective I do on the history of Blacks in Africa and the Americas being that my culture was literally a mixture of Southern African American, Carribean, and Indiginous African culture. So my perspective on certain situations differ than say a Nigerian which most people use as the standard whem they talk about their experience with "Africans".

Good point.

 

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“Timbúktu from the Terrace of the Traveller’s House”-1850's

“View of the City of Timbuctoo”[This is the first view of Timbuktu drawn by a European visitor.]

'From the tower I had an extensive view over an immense plain of white sand, on which nothing grows except a few stunted shrubs, the mimosa ferruginea, and where the uniformity of the picture is only here and there broken by some scattered hills or banks of sand. I could not help contemplating with astonishment the extraordinary city before me, created solely by the wants of commerce, and destitute of every resource except what its accidental position as a place of exchange affords.'- René Caillié(1799-1838), Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, and Across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828, Vol. 2, p. 71. London, 1830.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Not a fan of Wikipedia... but.
Vai syllabary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

^^States that its origins are 1830s.


Good point.

Nah im not disagreeing that could be true, Its been years since the last time I read up on the Vai in detail. My pops ex wife is Vai and only thing I can say for sure is they dabble heavy in "African Sciences"

 

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“Kanó, from Mount Dalá/ Febr 10th 1851”

 

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Nah im not disagreeing that could be true, Its been years since the last time I read up on the Vai in detail. My pops ex wife is Vai and only thing I can say for sure is they dabble heavy in "African Sciences"

 

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The Tomb of Askia in the town of Gao

Inside the tomb:

 

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Ancient city of Timbuktu

 

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This thread could benefit from some analysis on the last iteration of Sahelian kingdoms in West Africa. The Fulani states made by jihad, an example being the Sokoto Caliphate which was only conquered in 1902.

 

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Burkina Faso

Bani in northern Burkina Faso