AFAS 222 Lecture 6: AFAS222,University of Arizona,Chinweizu Readings(p6)
30 Aug 2018
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Askia mohammad ture replaced civil administration with an imperial administrative buaurucrcy through kings and chiefs. In sudan, while the invaders did not win, ruin took over the land. Shongay depended on gold and economy eroded without it bc of moroccans. Portuguese were the first wave of western expansion to descend upon africa for gold and used catholicism as their pretext. Portuguese brought a ruin to africa without contributing anything to her. Africa suffered devastating tornado of slaving, depopulation, and social disintegration in. Igobland, once a place to confide in turned into a place for procuring slaves. Universities of jenn and timbuktu were destroyed by 17century slave trading. Intelligence was lost bc of slave trade. Trans-sahara trade in north and costal trading in the south. Islamic revivlas revived and flourished parts of africa. New beginnings in 20th century because slave trade has ended. All of the above combined produced a distorted self image and a loss of a sense of dignity.
