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22 | Nigerian American | coder and African history buff
Joined August 2021
"We are getting rid of Western influence in Africa, this is not our culture" they say while wearing this in court
Ghana passes bill making identifying as LGBTQ+ illegal
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Nobody really mentions it but there's gonna be an anime movie based on Congolese mythology that has a bunch of big names attached to it like Viola Davis (one of the heads of the production studio attached to it). They're collabing with Japanese studios
The fact that we dont have fantasy shows in african setting and everything is egypt egypt egypt when it comes to Africa is staggering. The real trippy fantastical stuff isnt in egypt but I guess that's too black for whoever.
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@svdarkman This whole comment is irrelevant considering what I tend to post/retweet on my page. Why is an Egyptian complaining under a tweet that has nothing to do with Egypt.
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Sub Saharan Africa likely had the earliest iron working in the world, Europeans never independently invented the wheel, Africans had dogs (Basenji, Azawakh, etc) and horses for centuries, plenty of writing (more studies gotta be done), and civilizations. You're just dumb
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A chairman of MAPPA who is also a founder of studio Madhouse is attached to this too. They're cooking fr. Japanese and black directors coming together for this
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@yorubussy At this point a lot of non Nigerians are more educated about Nigerian spirituality and òrìṣà than some Nigerians. Also diaspora religions literally exist, Cuba alone has millions of Santeria practioners.
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The backlash to this tweet is funny because people are assuming she's African American when she's Nigerian talking about the treatment of Igbos who in the past were literally bombed and starved by the Nigerian government. But racists gonna racists I guess.
yeah imagine.
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Half the replies to this post are Africans either trying to defend wearing European style courtroom wigs or being aggressively homophobic and thinking that being gay is somehow a real issue. I pray for Africans because this is funny but ridiculous
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The "butt naked" Africans:
@afrique_ze @DeIudedShaniqwa Fuck africa you would still be butt naked at the watering holes where you belong you useless primitives. Always justify these things with a "but". pathetic creatures need to be separated from civilisation.
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In contrast to this garbage, here's an artist who depicts Yoruba culture/mythos/orisa in a respectful way and yet she herself isn't Yoruba. Her work has been shown in the Spelman Museum of Fine Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
“The three Yoruba brothers” by @olaoluslawn has been sold at the biggest auction house in the UK for £31,750.
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@ElokoMode It's probably in the same light as "Nigerian mythology" where it's just focusing on a prominent ethnic group. I'm betting here it'll be the Kongo people.
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This thread is okay, but more could've been included so for like the third time.Castles, forts AND palaces in Africa.A thread.
ANYWAYS .castles in Africa .-thread.
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"Sub Sahelian Africa" making up entirely new phrases because you found out that Sahelian history proves the whole "primitive Africans" idea wrong. Like I said before in a few years they'll change it again to something like Sub Savannah Africa.
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Basic map showing polities that existed in what's now the DRC, literally took about 10 seconds to find via Google
It always shocks me how the left considers basic anthropology racist. Like just dividing people up by civilizations is seen as discriminatory. I should make up some African civilization that never exists to not hurt their feelings. Empires, literary or philosophical masterpieces.
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Like Toni Morrison said."The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. There will always be one more thing".
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This is basically just missionary work but with Islam though. Both are shit but some of y'all will bend over backwards to defend the later. And they have agency but they wouldn't be converting if a certain someone didn't travel thousands of miles with the intent to convert them.
there’s something so sinister about the agency that’s often robbed from Africans. That they’re apparently too stupid or uneducated to rejection something they don’t want. A whole circle of men & woman, don’t you think if they had an issue with it they would’ve stop it?.
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Just a reminder but the Moroccan government once tried applying for EU membership in the past but got rejected. Knowing that fact explains a lot about Moroccan nationalists.
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That isn't the Djinguereber Mosque, it's that Djenne Mosque.Musa didn't build this, it was Kunburu.The actual Djinguereber Mosque is shown here alongside the ruins of Mansa Musa's mosque in Gao (which he paid an Andalusian architect to build anyways).Stupid people = stupid tweets
They say that Mansa Musa, the most wealthy man in history, used his vast fortune to build a giant sand castle known as the Djinguereber Mosque. Underwhelming, isn’t it?
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19th century Europeans literally claimed that the Ife bronzes from what's now southwest Nigeria had to be Greek because they refused to accept the level of skill and beauty of the pieces but sure, let's Sub Saharan Africa didn't match other groups in these regards
Why, throughout history, have Sub-Saharan Africans been unable to match the quality of life, ingenuity, and artistry of other groups?. Why is it that Europeans, seemingly, were so much more dominant in terms of their ability to progress and develop greater civilizations?
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Lol those are the same bronze sculptures that Europeans were coping so hard over they had to attribute it to some "higher race", Atlantis, or in some instances, a long lost colony of Greeks that somehow made it to southwest Nigeria
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Anyways guys look at all of these pictures of ruins, cities, architecture, and artifacts from pre colonial Africa
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Damn it seems like this picture will start circulating further proving how white nats are dumb as rocks. White nats learned about Mali, Songhai, Aksum, etc. and shifted the line of what defines black people. In a few years they'll shift this to only encompass the Congo rainforest.
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Watching this mf and the 40+ clowns who agreed attribute the Ife bronzes to "Arab Muslim contact" when Arabs didn't even know where Ife was even after the earliest bronze was made is hilarious. Cope clowns
This is the distillation of every argument with Black History Twitter. They demand that you show them pre-Roman Celtic or Germanic art. You do so. They respond with African work from after Arab Muslim contact and then strut around like it’s some sort of dunk.
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@xaturnine @fraserc_96 @Xongkuro These people never picked up a book on even simple African history yet they'll still say shit like this.
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"Timbuktu was founded by Arab traders from Egypt" yeah and Cambridge was founded by Han Chinese traders from Nanjing.
@RafFaithfull @RealDianeYap Yes it is. Timbuktu was founded by Arab traders from Egypt and the Maghreb in the 12th Century. Your other examples from Ashanti are all post European contact. Kumasi was founded in the 17th C. The ornament, stone tracery, entablatures, all Euro/Arab influence.
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Africans had hundreds of musical instruments ranging from various drums that mimic tonal languages to communicate meaning to straight up multi-stringed instruments but y'all built your entire worth around denigrating black people you won't even bother looking it up
@UsingLyft Bro Africans hit sticks against trees 200,000 years ago and all classical music is derivative of this OG rhythm. They didn’t have time for wheels. They were swimming to North America to secretly be the real American Indians.
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The British really did a number on Nigerians. Asians didn't invent planes either, and Africans did invent ships and did sail outside of Africa and rule lands outside of Africa. This is why it's important to teach about African history or else you get people saying stuff like this.
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/s Behold the obviously very primitive people of Africa. Look at the simple rags and unsophisticated clothing that they dress up in
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Not even surprised a Somali nationalist (aka incel racists) would post all of this, none of which is a single photo in Nigeria. Meanwhile Nigerian history pre-colonization
"They haven't contributed shirt to african history". Nigerian history pre-colonisation:
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There's something to be said about how the only Japanese person on this thread actually explains that Yasuke probably was a samurai and the people arguing against him being one are just right wing white people.
@RespectElves @Dexerto Nobunaga gave a name "Yasuke" to a black guy because he want to treat him as Bushi = Samurai. The guy needed a samurai name to be a samurai. When you call the black guy as Yasuke, you are already admitting he is a samurai. In that era, all samurais are pet of Nobunaga by the way.
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Literally the same shit going on in both pictures but one of them is somehow fine. Both suck, stop being hypocrites
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Calling them a Redditor when you're out on Twitter with an anime profile picture talking about "muh genetics IQ" is just the pot calling the kettle black. Even though the video is mid it's way better than whatever horseshit y'all disgusting people say here.
No, it was not because "camels were better", it's because of g factor and high heritability rates genetically predisposing African populations towards severely low intelligence quotients you fucking redditor. How come Africa never produced a Pythagoras or Euclid? Same reason.
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White nats when people of color respond back with the same animosity towards them that they have towards us:
Newgrange is a 5,200 year old passage tomb which predates Stonehedge and the pyramids of Giza. Located in County Meath, it illuminates inside. during the winter solstice.
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Wait until this guy realizes Europeans never independently invented the wheel and the leading theory is that it diffused from the Near East.
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Saying the Ashanti were "poor by European standards" when a literal European account acknowledges how members of the Ashanti royal administration were wealthier than most English upperclass people is funny
@mansa_rah2000 @imperatorgaia @RafFaithfull @UsingLyft Because they used weapons obtained from Europeans later in the trade to crush their enemies and extract whatever they could from them. That said, "superrich" is basically a modern cope. They were poor by European standards.
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Almost entirely in the Neolithic/Paleolithic stages must sure explain the widespread use of iron, large urbanized settlements, local production of literal guns in some places, and more. And yeah that technology claim sure explains why SS Africans beat back both multiple times
@nhannahjones Sub Saharan Africa was almost entirely in the Neolithic or even Paleolithic stages of development. Architecture and technology were comparatively negligible compared to Eurasian and even North African societies.
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Y'all will scramble to say Egypt was black and claim Egyptian history before learning about any of the actual predominantly black civilizations in Africa. Mfs talking about Egypt but nobody is talking about the Mali Empire, Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, etc.
Invaders will always be mad about Egypt. 🫠🫠🫠 They do exactly what yt ppl do. Start history at a certain point to ensure a specific perception. 🥱 part 1
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The Ghana Empire was founded by Soninke people, who are still black (and Bantu isn't even an ethnicity). Go back to jerking off the idea of a united Eurasia and stop making stupid African history takes.
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I think the funniest thing about the original tweet is seeing all the people trying to bring up Africa and just showing they don't know anything about African history.
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This whole argument is ridiculous once you know that Sub Saharan Africa independently developed agriculture thousands of years ago and most of North Africa's writing script (besides Egypt) were derived scripts. Y'all are the people that believe what DeSantis says
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The ever shifting definition of Sub Saharan Africa. Wow you're telling me the region that borders some other regions shares similarities with it? Fascinating, what a great new revelation.
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@dr_duchesne @Freebraveminds "Africans never created a civilization".Proceeds to show the cover of a book with a bronze sculpture made by an African civilization.
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Honestly this is the point I'm at when it comes to bad African history takes online
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The clothing worn by African traditional monarchs all look saucy in general imo (first pic is agbada and staff from an Alaafin of Oyo, second is an Asantehene, third is João I of Kongo, fourth is Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia)
@instablog9ja There is no Dress in human History that makes anyone look like a King More than Agbada. It's by far the sauciest attire to exist.
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What a disingenuous phrasing. That "private collection" is the Oba of Benin, the descendant of the people who owned the bronzes in the past. The Nigerian government literally agreed to do this, acting like it's otherwise is ridiculous.
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North Africans say other Africans are obsessed with them but then will tweet shit like this unprovoked. Getting gassed up by Europeans really did a number on them yet they'll go to Europe and be treated like shit like every other immigrant.
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Mf is from the Canary Islands, y'all are literally just Spain's new age African colony. Regardless Ghana was never "destroyed" by Morocco, this is even stated on Wikipedia
@AtlanteanMonk Dont forget Ghana empire too, so basically their “biggest empire” got destroyed by Morocco each time.
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Wow you're telling me the empires in non Bantu speaking areas weren't ruled by Bantu speakers? How surprising. This is literally the case for all of West Africa you doof.
Fun fact: the Ghana, Mali, Songhai and Kanem Empires were all ruled by non-Bantus.
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@gimme_ur_d0llar I wish y'all would shut up, truly.
An announcement by our founder on the recent Twitter backlash against one of our artists.
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As a Nigerian it's so funny to see the way other Nigerians absolutely lose their shit when anything related to traditional religions is brought up. They start preaching and making signs of the cross like they're about to be possessed.
Actually it’s about Jesus Christ teaching me how to walk on water, to trust Him and not in human understanding. He changed my life. And if you seek Him He will fill you up too. He is the Lord of Lords. The word of God, made flesh.I am His sheep. He is my Shepherd. And I have.
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LOL Songhai founded by an Amazigh? Yeah it's definitely the Amazigh and not the people the empire is named after
Also, i didnt mention about Songhai empire being found by an Amazigh but since west africans try to claim any Moorish dynasty just because they had millions of black slaves, so then dont forget Songhai was founded by an Amazigh (implying afrocentrist logic here)
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No hate to North Africans but every time I see them be prideful and racist to SSAfricans about history I want to remind them that the only part of NA people care about in pop history is Egypt. A Moroccan flexing their history as if most people even know the Almohad Caliphate.
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Flexing about defeating weakened empires (which also didn't have guns) even though you proceeded to lose the same territories after a few decades but ig that's the highlight of the relevancy (the Saadi sultanate didn't even last as long as Mali did).
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Idk what's funnier, the fact that I don't live in Europe or the fact that this changes literally nothing even if I did? How are you in Africa and you hate on your own history and culture, that's even worse.
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White trash riding the tip of Japanese and Korean culture (they'll never accept him) showcasing his ignorance on stuff you can find through a simple Wikipedia search (or check my page lol promotion). Btw Europeans didn't independently invent writing either, so not a flex
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Somalis, Arab Nationalists, and Moroccans/Egyptians uniting to say some of the most racist vitriol in the quote retweets:
aside from christianity, another religion was forced on africans during colonization & slavery but i don’t say much about it because it’s too easy to get attacked by these people.
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Racism makes one quite stupid. They think prior to Europeans Africans just sat on air or something
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I'm convinced that the whole "Somalis aren't black/African" thing is rooted in two things.1. Stupid race science bs that's been outdated for decades but they still parrot.2. So much instability in Somalia that they latch onto the one thing they can feel superior about.
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Example here. We have the typical white nat tweet with over 3k likes. Have any of them fact checked the bullshit they're talking about? Ofc not because then that would make them doubt their worldview. Better to stay stupid and continue tweeting bullshit .
Behold the glory of Mansa Musa and his supposed “immeasurable wealth”.
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I'm convinced right wing weebs do everything to downplay Yasuke because how dare a black person be in their uwu Japanese fantasy. Anyways Matsudaira's diary literally describes Yasuke being under Nobunaga's fuchi, or rice stipend, which is given to warriors.
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Wild, mfs will say anything but admit that West Africans independently invented agriculture. "Populations similar to Iberomarusians brought agriculture" yeah that sure explains the totally different crops and lack of evidence.
@MaxIsMad6_ Populations more similar to Iberomarusians brought agriculture to West Africa. They still had significant SSA-like affinities, but the majority of their ancestry was Eurasian.
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White nats when they find out white people aren't solely responsible for every innovation in history and often times involved downplaying non white contributions:
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"Stone Age empires" sure man, let's all look at these Stone Age empires. Oh wait, this looks like a history of metalworking that might be longer than anywhere else on Earth
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You know @whatifalthist I have to give you credit, I've never seen someone make several shitty maps of precolonial Africa in one video before. Man ignored centuries old kingdoms and empires and also called West Africans Bantu *again* despite being corrected on it before
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@RyjitaRose Nope but I have hope it'll be good. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bigger announcement later this year or sometime next year.
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"I doubt they were independently developed by black Africans" that's the great thing about facts is that they're right no matter what you think about them.
@batalasart @nianello6 @TodSmithdaFirst @imperatorgaia @QAlkhlas I don't doubt pearl millet and sorghum were domesticated in Africa. I doubt that they were independently developed by black Africans. If nothing else, the introduction of the pastoralist subsistence strategy into the Sahara was key to their development.
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Really living up to the "yap" part of her name huh.
You didn't kill or colonize the whole world because you didn't have ships or weapons or societal organization advanced enough to do so. You didn't even have the wheel or 2-story buildings. Lack of technology does not equal moral superiority.
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"horn Africans"."Not Sub Saharan Africa".Mfs really don't look at a basic map before tweeting because if they did they'd see the Horn is below the Sahara
"exaggeration, africans *did* have the wheel, namely the horn and north africa".So not Subsaharan Africa that people are referring to. North Africa has an entirely separate demographic and cultural history and some of the first bronze age civilizations. Such idiotic pedantry.
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This entire thread from beginning to end reeks of someone who has never even read a paragraph about African history and also has a massive inferiority complex.
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@aboyspeaks Honestly I just say this stuff because I'd rather put accurate information out there. I can't be GreatHouse bro is a different beast.
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These people are so dumb and obsessed with Africans that they decide to go back and call the Korowai people of Papa New Guinea "Equatorial New Guineans" even though Equatorial New Guinea isn't a thing (and Equatorial Guinea has a higher GDP per Capita).
When I originally posted this video I mislabeled it Papua New Guinea. I meant Equatorial New Guinea. Papua has an average national IQ of 83, which is a level of mental impairment compared to the average euro/asian. Equatorial New Guinea has a national average of 59. A person.
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Husuni Kubwa, the Swahili palace of Kilwa (with a 3D reconstruction)
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I'm making some points on Dahomey because people are spouting misconceptions following The Woman King trailer. 1. Dahomey didn't get "rich off of slavery", slaves were never their primary export and their role in the trade is overstated due to European/American interests.
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Reconstructions of the palace of the Oba from the Benin Empire (cuz the British destroyed the original)
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Daily reminder that most accounts with some type of Greco-Roman statue as their profile pic are dumber than rocks. And pretty sure that first pic has been debunked @Phillip05166897 ?.
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Now the obvious answer to this is Mansa Musa, but I'm gonna go in a different direction and point out the Ashanti Empire. Whose nobility were even noted by the British for being very wealthy and would've been millionaires today. This was thanks to gold extraction in the empire
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And cuz I see "muh cathedral" arguments, the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Ethiopia which was rebuilt several times. And ruins of the cathedral of Faras, from Nubia constructed in the 7th century
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White nats when an empire that's been gone for centuries has ruins:
@GeorgeArmatas @BasedPeterP someone beat me to it, but yeah the French ordered its reconstruction, this is how they found it:
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Reconstruction of the palace of Be'al Geubri, Yeha, Ethiopia from 800 BCE
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I think the funniest thing about white nats is that they genuinely think the majority of Africans live in rural huts in the middle of nowhere. Most Africans live in cities, cities that are still growing too. Send a white nat to Nairobi or Luanda and they'd lose their shit
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@Pressurepoint10 @monitoringbias @DrugGovoruna @Shiftant Don't you know that Europeans are allowed to have an exchange of ideas from different cultures but the second Africans do the same it's no longer African? That's their logic.
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@danulmao @WagaduChronicle Y'all literally dragged the company and made x y and z accusations over one white lady yet it's still somehow their fault for how the situation was handled
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People hating on this tweet even though it's true. Mfs call it all "idol worship" without bothering to actually understand but then lose their shit if you say they worship the Kaaba. Even though both are rooted in the same ignorance.
They took our deeply developed & rich traditions and reduced it down to “idol worship” to then have us worship gods that don’t look like us.
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This take gotta be one of the funniest ones though. Mfs think having a warmer climate suddenly makes things easier. Like they unironically believe this. Yeah totally easy dealing with monsoons, intense dry seasons, nutrient leeched soil, heat waves, and tropical cyclones.
@KeithWoodsYT The reason is that life was relatively easy in that part of the world. Food was plentiful, so no long term strategies to store food were needed, nor to cultivate food. The climate was warm so winters were mild. No strategies to survive winter needed to be developed. The plentiful.
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Illustration of the palace of the emperor Kofi of the Ashanti Empire
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These people really think African empires and kingdoms just never existed? Y'all Google is free you don't have to make shit up.
What if everyone just agrees to create some sort of canonical fictional African empire like Wakanda, with a rise and fall and dynasties and wars, that can be used as a setting for games/movies rather than shoehorning Africans into every period piece.
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Nigeria has never been united as a Muslim state and not to be that guy but the poorest, most uneducated, most unsafe, least electrical accessable, and lowest HDI rate regions of Nigeria are the predominantly Muslim North
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It's funny because if you prove them wrong then you deserve to be blocked. I forgot that using facts runs counter to the entire foundation of white nats beliefs. They gotta stay stupid for their stuff to work
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I hate this stupid talking point cuz ik that these people only know Mali, Ghana (which wasn't Muslim when it first appeared), and Songhai. And not places like Ife, Benin, the Ashanti Empire, the Kingdom of Kongo, the Kingdom of Merina, Loango, Aksum, etc. Dumbasses.
@jayy_visual You say that as if the south ever had civilization or history outside of Muslims.
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"…the West seems to suffer deep anxieties about the precariousness of its civilization and to have a need for constant reassurance by comparison with Africa. If Europe, advancing in civilization, could cast a backward glance periodically at Africa trapped in primordial barbarity.
@issamfgoat Because the idea of "Whiteness" rests on a foundation of African inferiority.
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