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
The White Mindset
Whites (as a group) are a problem for us. And when you say Whites the first type of problem is to tangle us up in so-called generalizations. So we have to qualify "Not All Whites" and I would say that
Black Privilege
We all know about White privilege and I think anyone White denying they have it, like Jordan Peterson, must be a racist. But now we have to be open to the possibility that if there is an inherent White privilege
Africa’s Cultural Crisis: Modern cultures
Culture is used to always mean something positive. When we speak of them as conscious people. But that is not what culture is. Below is also African culture. The sexual habits of African men and women and how they carry