This is false.
This "city" is literally a myth and the only thing found there when photography reached the area was the ruin of an old portuguese church
The whole of East Africa is wrong. The Horn of Africa was composed of literate urban people and the Swahili Coast (modern day Mozambique and Kenya) as well.
What literary texts did Somalis and the people of the Swahili produce?
>What literary texts did Somalis and the people of the Swahili produce?
Absolutely nothing but it's not surprising since even their Masters were moronic.
The whole of East Africa is wrong. The Horn of Africa was composed of literate urban people and the Swahili Coast (modern day Mozambique and Kenya) as well.
Sahel people were largely illiterate.
Even in Western Europe, the majority of the population was not literate in 1880 (when colonial rule over Africa started).
In the Sahel it was much worse. You'd have a very small literate elite and that's it.
Also calling them "urban" is reaching. The entire region at like 5 settlements that could be called cities.
The Bantu are unironically the closest group to Europeans outside of the Austronesians and Tais. The conflict in the Congo is basically their 30 years war.
Coincidentally I was just reading about subnational Kingdoms in East and Central Africa like Buganda within Uganda. Fascinating concept to me, its similar to modern western ceremonial monarchies except with more of a seperation between the central Republican government and Kingdoms within it representing local ethnic groups and regions within the country
For what time period? Seems generally correct other than Kongo. Mbanza Kongo was very urbanized yet it appears to be in the lightly settled area.
>Mbanza Kongo was very urbanized
This is false.
This "city" is literally a myth and the only thing found there when photography reached the area was the ruin of an old portuguese church
>photography is necessary for archeological digs
peak midwit. I have no reason to trust anything you say.
>Mbanza Kongo was very urbanized
Urbanized probably means it was a big slum where a lot of {{{merchants}}} sold wares brought from afar like seashells, vases, colored pepper, and gems
>Nomadic goat herder
>in camel land as well as the coastal trading states
What
What literary texts did Somalis and the people of the Swahili produce?
>What literary texts did Somalis and the people of the Swahili produce?
Absolutely nothing but it's not surprising since even their Masters were moronic.
>posts Mecca which isn't even in East Africa
>it's not surprising since even their Masters were moronic.
Why do chuds fellate Arabs so much?
Where are those buildings in Chicago now?
Oh, wait. They aren't real buildings right? They are cheap wood and plaster large doll houses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Park_(Chicago)
Legitimately underdeveloped brain
>a holy site doesn't look as colorful as an amusement park
ok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_literature
Were the nomadic goat herders literate ?
What about great Swahili city states ?
Mogadishu, Mombasa , kismayo , Merca and barawe
The whole of East Africa is wrong. The Horn of Africa was composed of literate urban people and the Swahili Coast (modern day Mozambique and Kenya) as well.
Sahel people were largely illiterate.
Even in Western Europe, the majority of the population was not literate in 1880 (when colonial rule over Africa started).
In the Sahel it was much worse. You'd have a very small literate elite and that's it.
Also calling them "urban" is reaching. The entire region at like 5 settlements that could be called cities.
>Illiterate cattle herders
Indo-European Chads where are we repping our Bantu bros?? Total medgrito and total pygmy death
The Bantu are unironically the closest group to Europeans outside of the Austronesians and Tais. The conflict in the Congo is basically their 30 years war.
Coincidentally I was just reading about subnational Kingdoms in East and Central Africa like Buganda within Uganda. Fascinating concept to me, its similar to modern western ceremonial monarchies except with more of a seperation between the central Republican government and Kingdoms within it representing local ethnic groups and regions within the country
its crazy to think that in 1AD blacks were still *centuries* away from crossing south of the Zambezi river
yeah blacks havent been in southern africa very long on the grand scheme of things. the khoi san are the indigenious population
>Illiterate cattle Herders
*Illiterate farmers
Bantus were first and foremost farmers