Top 10 African Empires

[Bawon Samedi]

Again, my apologies for accusing you in being ignorant, as i was more speaking in general terms in that statement.

Somali's definitly have a strong lineage, but alot of it has been orally maintained.

Its just that I want to see more scholarly stuff on early horn history. If you want in depth sources on Somali empires such as Ajuran you usually have to ask a Somali online. There is hardly any in depth ancient horn documents online.

 

[KingMalik]

See the thing is African Empires were obstructed by the Sahara. The Sahara Desert is roughly the size of the United States. Nobody's crossing that. It was good in one way because it kept outsiders out, but bad in another way because it constricted trade/flow of information with Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We were out of sight, out of mind. So it's real easy for cacs to say we never did anything because their ancestors never parlayed with ours as much as they did West and East Asians. We were minding our own fukkin business pre-colonization/slavery. Had Mali been where Carthage, the story would've played out alot differently.

 

[KOohbt]

See the thing is African Empires were obstructed by the Sahara. The Sahara Desert is roughly the size of the United States. Nobody's crossing that. It was good in one way because it kept outsiders out, but bad in another way because it constricted trade/flow of information with Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We were out of sight, out of mind. So it's real easy for cacs to say we never did anything because their ancestors never parlayed with ours as much as they did West and East Asians. We were minding our own fukkin business pre-colonization/slavery. Had Mali been where Carthage, the story would've played out alot differently.

you never heard of the trans saharan trade?

 

[TryObsidian?]

That was unnecessarily negative.

He's right....

Instead of making a top ten how about we educate the world with who these africans are exactly.

 

[KingMalik]

you never heard of the trans saharan trade?

So it's real easy for cacs to say we never did anything because their ancestors never parlayed with ours as much as they did West and East Asians.

 

[KOohbt]

See the thing is African Empires were obstructed by the Sahara. The Sahara Desert is roughly the size of the United States. Nobody's crossing that. It was good in one way because it kept outsiders out, but bad in another way because it constricted trade/flow of information with Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We were out of sight, out of mind. So it's real easy for cacs to say we never did anything because their ancestors never parlayed with ours as much as they did West and East Asians. We were minding our own fukkin business pre-colonization/slavery. Had Mali been where Carthage, the story would've played out alot differently.

 

[KOohbt]

He's right....

Instead of making a top ten how about we educate the world with who these africans are exactly.

don't you think that kind of dialog would happen in this thread. in this section of the forum