Majority of African people suffer from Inferiority complex, because
of the huge amount of literature that portrays them like savage before
the arrival of Europeans.
Anyone interested in african history know that’s not true. NOT AT ALL!
Now, According to Columbia University’s Alexander Ives Bortolot
“Contrary to popular views about precolonial Africa, local
manufacturers were at this time creating items of comparable, if not
superior, quality to those from pre-industrial Europe.
Due to advances in native forge technology, smiths in some regions of
sub-Saharan Africa were producing steels of a better grade than those
of their counterparts in Europe, and the highly developed West African
textile workshops had produced fine cloths for export long before the
arrival of European traders.”
“Prior to the European voyages of exploration in the fifteenth
century, African rulers and merchants had established trade links with
the Mediterranean world, western Asia, and the Indian Ocean region.
Within the continent itself, local exchanges among adjacent peoples fit
into a greater framework of long-range trade.
The merchants from Britain, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands who
began trading along the Atlantic coast of Africa therefore encountered a
well-established trading population regulated by savvy and experienced
local rulers.”
African progress has been stopped by slavery and colonialism because we didn’t have guns when the europeans came.
Slavery and colonialism ARE NOT Africa History, They have interrupted it!
By: Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
from here
Commentary and analysis to persuade people to become socialist and to act for themselves, organizing democratically and without leaders, to bring about a world of common ownership and free access. We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. We are not reformists with a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.
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