AFAMAST 1122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Africa, Usman Dan Fodio, Kalala Ilunga

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: African American & African Std
• Course: AFAMAST 1122
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Luba kingdom not involved in slave trade or contact with europeans. Large reserves of salt and iron which could be traded vastly to agricultural communities. Tippu tip very powerful slave trader from east africa. Had a great army that grew from the leftovers he did not enslave. He would invade a community and take some of the people into slavery, and the rest would either be joined into his military or die. During the 1870s, the luba kingdom was picked apart (cid:271)y tippu tip a(cid:374)d his ar(cid:373)y as they did(cid:374)"t have (cid:373)u(cid:272)h, if a(cid:374)y, (cid:373)ilitary power to defend themselves from this slave trader. The fulani jihads brought about a much more orthodox/strict interpretation of the islam religion. Traders who spread from west africa (senegal) to central africa (car/chad) in a nomadic way. These traders began to be enslaved by the west african rulers, and started religious wars within islam to remove these rulers from power.