Birth of the primitive negro mythhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i2dB2...added: black woman warriorshttp://colorq.org/Articles/article.as...Added:"European travelers in the sixteenth century were impressed with the African kingdoms of Timbuktu and Mali, already stable and organized at a time when European states were just beginning to develop into the modern nation. In 1563, Ramusio, secretary to the rulers in Venice, wrote to the Italian merchants: "Let them go and do business with the King of Timbuktu and Mali and there is no doubt that they will be well-received there with their ships and their goods and treated well, and granted the favours that they ask..."A Dutch report, around 1602, on the West African kingdom of Benin, said: "The Towne seemeth to be very great, when you enter it. You go into a great broad street, not paved, which seemeth to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes Street in Amsterdam. ...The Houses in this Towne stand in good order, one close and even with the other, as the Houses in Holland stand." The inhabitants of the Guinea Coast were described by one traveler around 1680 as "very civil and good-natured people, easy to be dealt with, condescending to what Europeans require of them in a civil way, and very ready to return double the presents we make them." -From Howard Zinn's "A people's history of the United States"http://www.worldfreeinternet.net/arch...Added: History of Timbuktuhttp://www.timbuktufoundation.org/his...Added: An Egypt linkhttp://www.asante.net/citypress0704.htmlAdded: BBC programes "The story of Africa"http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/afr...Added: Another site, Trans-Saharan Trade and the West African Discovery of the Mediterranean Worldhttp://www.hf-fak.uib.no/institutter/...Added: This forum, I just thought the discussion was interestinghttp://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ult...Added: Queen Nzinga of Angolahttp://edofolks.com/html/pub154.htmThe king and the city (one of my favorites)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M0xTg...part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2-oZl...part 2Correcting misconceptions and fighting ignoranceNubiahttp://youtube.com/watch?v=H81eBWMYgtk (This one was made by Blackhaze)http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/afr...Aksumhttp://endingstereotypesforamerica.or...http://users.vnet.net/alight/aksum/mh...Medieval Ethiopiahttp://endingstereotypesforamerica.or...West Africa apears on mapshttp://www.mrdowling.com/609-mansamus...Added: The Tomes of TimbuktuBy Alan Huffman"The museum plans to highlight a little-known connection between its host state and the manuscripts of Timbuktu: the story of Ibrahima Abd ar-Rahman, an 18th-century prince from what is now Guinea who studied at Timbuktu before being sold into slavery in Natchez, Miss. The prince's saga contradicts another widely held Western belief -- that Africans sold in the slave trade were uncivilized. In fact, many were doctors, dentists, lawyers, professors, musicians and members of royal families. And a large number were Muslim."http://www.toubab.com/Contents/The_Ni...Bornuhttp://endingstereotypesforamerica.or...nok civilization http://www.nok-benin.co.uk/history_no...Kongohttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/afr...Great Zimbabwehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/afr...African Astronomy, including Bushmenhttp://sociolingomali.wordpress.com/2...http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/is...http://timbuktufoundation.org/manuscr...The Scientific Existence of African Peoplehttp://husky1.stmarys.ca/~hmillar/Afr...100 things you didn't know about Africahttp://www.whenweruled.com/articles.p...

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