>wakanda doesn't exi-
APOLOGIZE
https://adf-magazine.com/2016/03/king-tenkamenin-ruler-of-ancient-ghana/
>wakanda doesn't exi-
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>Al-Bakri never visited the kingdom, or any part of Africa, but wrote detailed accounts of Tenkamenin’s rule that are used in research to this day
Did they seriously never record their own history?
They recorded their history orally via griots
What's that
Pretty much a class of professional storytellers and oral historians belonging to West Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griot
Why not just write it down, seems much easier
>why not just write it down in your non-existent writing system
Isn't it obvious? Even after Arabic was introduced the griots were a firmly established part of the West African superculture
Lol were they stupid or something, even kids know how to read and write
>Lol were they stupid or something
Not really. They just didn't receive a writing system prior to Arabic contact
>even kids know how to read and write
They were taught how to write by people who already knew how do so
I doubt those children would create a writing system for themselves if they didn't have the concept of writing beforehand
Weird how basically everyone else was able to create a writing system but they couldn't.
You're writing in a language that is ultimately derived from sea-faring Semites (Phoenicians)
Many languages writing systems have been passed down from another civilization
Yea, weird how everyone else created a writing system except for them
Broken record
>was a ruler of the Ghana Empire who reigned from 1062 to 1076 C.E.
Ghana became Muslim in 1050s, therefore they had contact with Arabic before this date. Why didnt they adopted Arabic alphabet or influenced from Arabic alphabet to create their own script?
Not even looking at it racially it seems like (maybe because Sahara isolated them) some another favtor rather than "they didnt met anyone who uses alphabet" is in function.
I can tell you’ve only read the wiki I see
Wrong. Writing was invented independently only a few times.
Tell me, what script are you typing in?
That's a shit argument and you're a retard if you think it's valid.
So much for
>everyone invented their own script from scratch except west africans
Nobody said that.
He implied it
Nope
If your culture is maintained through oral tradition, it's easy for the king to modify history on the fly to suit whatever propaganda purposes the state may have at the moment. Written records make problems.
>it's easy for the king to modify history on the fly to suit whatever propaganda purposes the state may have at the moment
The griots aren't robots. They would probably take issue to a king trying to twist the oral traditions to suit his own ends
That's pretty naive
You're the one suggesting that it's necessarily easier to twist history when a society has no writing system compared to one that does
But it is easier. It's easier to twist the arms of a few academics employed by the state then it is to rewrite all of your records. Make an example of one Griot and the rest will fall into place. Destroy one book or scroll and the rest remain unchanged.
This idea that the absence of written records has no consequences is imbecility at it's finest. The Ghanians should have recorded their history. They largely didn't. Now they are defined by their neighbors and enemies. Cry about it.
Fair enough
That’s not how it works, idiot.
Djali are more powerful than Horon. They and they alone possess the mystical power handed down by Faro the water goddess to manipulate the supernatural force behind speech and song.
For a Horon to overstep like that is sacrilege.
That said. Coercive power was not a thing until quite recently.
Why are white people so obsessed with black panther? Like
You are so retarded that you pronounce "Ancient Ghana" as "Wakanda", lmao
Sheeeit
Lol imagine spelling this nigga's name wrong in the completely unsourced article you posted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunka_Manin
Wakanda isn't real.
Did they have slaves?