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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They recorded their history orally via griots

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What's that

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Pretty much a class of professional storytellers and oral historians belonging to West Africa
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griot

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Why not just write it down, seems much easier

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >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

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Lol were they stupid or something, even kids know how to read and write

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >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

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Weird how basically everyone else was able to create a writing system but they couldn't.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yea, weird how everyone else created a writing system except for them

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Broken record

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I can tell you’ve only read the wiki I see

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Wrong. Writing was invented independently only a few times.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Tell me, what script are you typing in?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That's a shit argument and you're a moron if you think it's valid.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            So much for
            >everyone invented their own script from scratch except west africans

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Nobody said that.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            He implied it

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Nope

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >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

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That's pretty naive

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Fair enough

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why are white people so obsessed with black panther? Like

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You are so moronic that you pronounce "Ancient Ghana" as "Wakanda", lmao

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sheeeit

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lol imagine spelling this homie's name wrong in the completely unsourced article you posted

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunka_Manin

    Wakanda isn't real.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Did they have slaves?

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