There’s a huge blind spot in western education about what was going on in Africa that wasn’t ancient Egypt or sometimes the Carthaginians. Mansa Musa might get a mention but people don’t know shit about the Mali Empire, or any of the other political formations in Africa that were contemporary to those in Medieval Europe.
A lot of this is by design because Europeans destroyed artifacts and historical sites.
![[R*dittor] Why did Africa never develop? I'm not racist, just measuring skulls for science](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/54ab8819-046a-4d8b-945b-a808d47f162d.jpeg){kind=link}
There’s a huge blind spot in western education about what was going on in Africa that wasn’t ancient Egypt or sometimes the Carthaginians. Mansa Musa might get a mention but people don’t know shit about the Mali Empire, or any of the other political formations in Africa that were contemporary to those in Medieval Europe.
A lot of this is by design because Europeans destroyed artifacts and historical sites.