It is only a Film!
"It is just a film"Well tell that to the sharksSome take films too seriously-- well they should. Go to Google and search Oppenheimer. Search Interstellar, search Aliens, search Platoon, and what comes up? Well, Aliens brings up a film, Platoon
Are Berbers African?
For over a decade people have asked us "What race are Berbers."Well, they are not called Berbers so let us start there. They are certainly not one identical homogenous transhistorical group of people and if we struggling with this sentence
The utter stupidity of Religious debates
Unlike Islam, Christianity does not forces its religion on people. — Ex-Muslim Christian On a Muslim site, the Muslim is right in a debate with a Christian, in the same debate On a Christian site the Muslim is wrong and got
Good Scholarship follows the evidence
If I am researching slavery in Africa 300 years ago what will I find? Do you think if I am white I will find something different to if I am African? (assuming all parties are qualified scholars?) Because the documents,
Purpose is needed for Knowledge
What is the purpose of information? To create new knowledge and understanding. We are having a discussion about the role of religion in shaping African culture and what, if anything, changed with the coming of the Abrahamic religions. What is
New Border is Nigeria’s Solution?
When I think about the issues keeping Nigeria back it has nothing to do with borders, makes no difference how you redraw any map in Africa IF the people within those borders are uneducated. You can draw it a million
The Past is not History (Advanced)
History is NOT the past. My real past is largely unknown. History is not really concerned with my real past, it is only about what is knowable based on available documents. No documents (pictures, structures, archeology, etc)=no history. Very very
Islam and Christianity & the Immorality of Slavery
Whoever kills his slave, we will kill him–Sunan an-Nasa’i 4736 We all have evolved as a society to be vulgarly intolerant to the remote concept of owning another human being as property. Like owning a chair. We evolved that sensibility.
But only 1.6% of Americans owned slaves in 1860
There is a book called How to Lie using statistics.If (let us accept this stat) only 1.6% of Americans owned slaves what does “owning slaves” mean?It means 1 person in a family of 20 might be the legal owner of
African and Western | Merging or Clashing? (Advanced)
Culture it is very complex. Because cultures do not come in boxes. We can argue eating with a knife and fork is Western and eating pap with your hands is African but culture has a very intangible element that is