User:4shizzal

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Hey this is 4shizzal, some of y'all know me as Scott Free. Happy lovely (always wanted to say that). I specialize in (obsessed with) African history. If you're researching anything on pre-colonial Africa on here, i've probably contributed to it. My biggest interest is the Mali Empire. I think it is one of the most overlooked empires in history and of great importance. I've also done a fair amount of net research on the dynamics of the Atlantic Slave Trade. I've produced a lot of statistics (who was selling, who was buying and how many were dying). Holla at ya boi if you have any useful info or just for questions. One luv to everyone at WIKI keepin the info FREE.

--Scott Free 16:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I am mainly devoted to compiling info on the Mandé civilization. I am a Black American with hereditary ties to these great people, which has boosted my zeal for researching them. Last year I discovered via African Ancestry my maternal heritage stretches back to the Mendé (a branch of the Mandé of Sierra Leone). It was amazing to find that I came from the same people i had been researching for the past five years!

Below are the topics I am currently contributing to. My aim is to provide Wikipedia with substantial info on all the significant pre-colonial states of Africa, especially those which affected or were affected by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. I feel it is not enough for Black Americans to look at Africa as one giant hodgepodge of civilizations but to know the details of its past as intricately as one knows Europe or Asia.

1 Sources
2 African Monuments
3 Pre-Colonial African States
4 Info links

[edit] Sources

First I wanted to hip u all to some of my favorite books on African

Hi and thnx for hittin me up. Here are some of my favorite sources. You're right; these books do get quite expensive, but I figure I owe it to my ancestors.

Books numbered 1-2 are indespensible sources for Pre-colonial African history. Books numbered 3-5 give you all the detail u ever wanted to know about the slave trade. Books numbered 6-7 have details and illustrations for African warfare; very useful Books numbered 8-9 are good on filling out the details on the respective states.

"Peoples and Empires of West Africa: West Africa in History 1000-1800" by G.T. Stride & C. Ifeka (Nelson, 1986)
"Introduction To African Civilizations" by John G. Jackson (Citadel, 2001)
"Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links" by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
"Exchanging Our Country Marks" by Michael A. Gomez (University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
"Africa and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680" by John K. Thornton (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
"Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800" by John K. Thornton (Taylor and Francis, 2005)
"African Arms and Armour" by Christopher Spring (British Museum Press, 1993)
"Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey" by Stanley B. Alpern (Hurst & Co Ltd, 2001)
"Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred Year War for Africa's Gold Coast" by Robert. B. Edgerton (Free Press, 1995)

Hope this has been helpful. Holla

[edit] African Monuments

Sankore Madrasah built in 989, institutionalized in 1325
Djinguereber Mosque built in 1327
Sidi Yahya Mosque built in 1400

[edit] Pre-Colonial African States

I've outlined all of the major Black African states of the Slave Trade Period (1502-1853) below by geographic position.

  Western Sahel (Mali to Niger)
  Upper Guinea (Senegal to Cote d'Ivoire)
  Lower Guinea (Ghana to Cameroon)
  West Central(Equatorial Guinea to Angola)

[edit] WESTERN SAHEL

[edit] UPPER GUINEA

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Senegal

Cayor Kingdom 1549 to 1868
Denanke Kingdom 1514 to 1776
Dyolof Empire 1350 to 1889
Kingdom of Fouta Tooro 1776 to 1891
Khasso Kingdom 1681 to 1880
Saalum Kingdom 1493 to 1850

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Guinea-Bissua

Kaabu Kingdom1546 to 1867

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Guinea

Kingdom of Fouta Djallon 1725 to 1896
Mali Empire 1235 to 1645

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Sierra Leone

Kingdom of Koya 1505 to 1896

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Cote d'Ivoire

Gyaaman Kingdom 1450 to 1895
Kong Empire 1710 to 1895

[edit] LOWER GUINEA

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Ghana

Asanteman 1701 to 1874
Mankessim Kingdom 1252 to 1873

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Benin

Kingdom of Dahomey 1650 to 1894

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Nigeria

Aro Confederacy 1690 to 1902
Benin Empire 1470 to 1897
Bornu Empire 1389 to 1893
Fulani Empire 1804 to 1903
Hausa Kingdoms 1010 to 1903
Igala Kingdom 1700s to 1901
Oyo Empire 1400 to 1835

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Cameroon

Bamun Kingdom 1394 to 1884
Mandara Kingdom before 1500s to 1902

[edit] WEST CENTRAL

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Equatorial Guinea

Otcho Kingdom before 1700s to 1885

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Gabon

Orungu Kingdom before 1700s to 1927

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of the Republic of Congo

Anziku Kingdom before 1600s to 1880
Kingdom of Loango 1550 to 1885

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Kuba Kingdom 1625 to 1900
Luba Empire 1585 to 1889
Lunda Kingdom 1500s to 1887

[edit] Pre-Colonial States of Angola

Kingdom of Kongo 1400 to 1888
Kingdom of Matamba 1631 to 1744 post Nzinga period
Kingdom of Ndongo 1556 to 1629

[edit] Info links

WebMande

--Scott Free 18:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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