I know you work very hard to produce your African history posts. And I’m sorry it doesn’t seem like many people read/rate your articles.
Honestly speaking and from a Black American point of view, I am very interested in the topic on your least favorite subject: African Slavery and the Diaspora of Africans around the globe.
What we don’t know, hear or understand about the slavery of our ancestors is
1. Why us and who are we?
2. What do today’s Africans know about this history and how do they feel about their slave trading ancestors? How do they feel about us?
3. How can we, today’s Black Americans and Africans, build or mend our relationship?
4. How can we forgive and forget the past and try to move forward in some kind of partnership of kinship?
My husband and I plan to visit a couple of African countries in the next several years. We want to walk on the land of our forefathers and feel the essence of our ancestors.
As far as pop history is concerned, African history isn't particulary popular
And as far as African history is concerned, any researcher not focusing on slavery and colonialism doesn't get much traction online (probably why there are barely any African history blogs at-all if you exclude those obsessed with ancient Egypt)
I will certainly explore slavery in greater detail in future, the reason I don't think its necessary to explore it at this point is that there is so much literature on the topic of slavery that I don't think my contribution is needed. There are thousands of websites, channels, etc with extremely well researched information about slavery, including entire biographies about the lives of people who were enslaved, yet we know almost nothing about Africans on the continent itself.
Until the research on general African history is raised to the very high standard of research about enslaved Africans, I won't crowd out the little information I can gather about the rest of the continent's history just to focus on a topic that has been so throughouly analyzed elsewhere.
I know you work very hard to produce your African history posts. And I’m sorry it doesn’t seem like many people read/rate your articles.
Honestly speaking and from a Black American point of view, I am very interested in the topic on your least favorite subject: African Slavery and the Diaspora of Africans around the globe.
What we don’t know, hear or understand about the slavery of our ancestors is
1. Why us and who are we?
2. What do today’s Africans know about this history and how do they feel about their slave trading ancestors? How do they feel about us?
3. How can we, today’s Black Americans and Africans, build or mend our relationship?
4. How can we forgive and forget the past and try to move forward in some kind of partnership of kinship?
My husband and I plan to visit a couple of African countries in the next several years. We want to walk on the land of our forefathers and feel the essence of our ancestors.
Thank you for reading my message.
Anita
Atlanta, Georgia
Hi Anita
As far as pop history is concerned, African history isn't particulary popular
And as far as African history is concerned, any researcher not focusing on slavery and colonialism doesn't get much traction online (probably why there are barely any African history blogs at-all if you exclude those obsessed with ancient Egypt)
I will certainly explore slavery in greater detail in future, the reason I don't think its necessary to explore it at this point is that there is so much literature on the topic of slavery that I don't think my contribution is needed. There are thousands of websites, channels, etc with extremely well researched information about slavery, including entire biographies about the lives of people who were enslaved, yet we know almost nothing about Africans on the continent itself.
Until the research on general African history is raised to the very high standard of research about enslaved Africans, I won't crowd out the little information I can gather about the rest of the continent's history just to focus on a topic that has been so throughouly analyzed elsewhere.
This is very helpful I would be reading more of your articles
thank you