NEW150Y1 Lecture : September 18 Africa.pdf
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Missionaries that needed to create the idea that. The characteristics/ idea between genders: the understanding of africa will be diff. to diff. people, the names of africa, africa. Africa is 18th/ 19th invention or social construct. The romans are credited for coning the word africa. Arabs and indians used this term: libya, ethiopia, bilad al sudan. Didn"t want the ideas about africa to be construct of arab scholars so they changed to africa. This idea was pushed by ibn battuta (1325-1354) He was the source that is used to write about africa: ibn khaldum (1332-1406, al-qarawiyin university (859) and sankore mosque (10th century) Ideas of africa existed in a different language so western scholars created the idea the africa not having a history: land of the blacks . The color of africans as given to theme during this period (perceptions and tropes of racial identity)
