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Mary Lee Brady, Ph. D.
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Various scholars have made attempts to document and provide information about visual arts in Africa of the past, and the University of Massachusetts prints are an examples for gifted and talented youth of African heritage to include in their pursuit of knowledge and understanding. Prior to the Moslem Conquest that raged across Northern, Central and Western Africa from approximately 800 C. E. to at least 1400 C. E., ... there were sizeable Kingdoms with millions of inhabitants reduced to tribal enclaves and villages by time the Atlantic and Mediterranean slave trades finally ended in the 19th century. The great sin of the horrible wars between kingdoms (including Ghana and Mali) to gain slaves for sale to the equally horrible Semite (Arab and Jewish) traders plying their cargoes in the Mediterranean was hell on earth for virtually all of Africa. Keep in mind that by the time of Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and other European exploration and trade in African gold and slaves, ... the kingdoms were virtually all diminished with little more than tribal identities verbalized by surviving remnants of villages that once surrounded towns and cities like Timbuktu. Remnants of African Kingdoms are now reflected in what modern scholars refer to as "tribal" even though such kingdoms did indeed exist. We welcome input by viewers as to the names and reigns of applicable kings and queens for inclusion on our site "African Heritage Bible Supplement" at: |
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