African Kings on European Atlases..

[UncleTomFord15]

Link: African kings on medieval and Renaissance maps


We were known worldwide for our gold and jewelry


Scroll down to the bottom though...

"Another example is on a map showing Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, made around 1529 by cartographer Conte di Ottomanno Freducci, who was based in Ancona, Italy (active 1497-1539). Unusually Mansa Musa is represented with white skin, wearing European-style clothing and playing a stringed musical instrument."

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Luckily Mansa Musa as we know him is today depicted as his right color as a black man, but imagine all of the black figures lost to history due to whitewashing and erasure by cacs and arabs

 

[Mindfield333]

Luckily Mansa Musa as we know him is today depicted as his right color as a black man, but imagine all of the black figures lost to history due to whitewashing and erasure by cacs and arabs

They kept stressing how certain places in Africa weren’t Black because they weren’t sub-Saharan… They couldn’t pull that with Mansa Musa being from Mail. They probably tried tho

 

[Henri Christophe]

We were known worldwide for our gold and jewelry

Yeah & we got robbed and entire cities burned to the ground.

Now we broke.

Thats why I dont really flex on social media unless its my Instagram stories that will get deleted in 24 hours.

I learned from the mistakes of my ancestors.... being lowkey is the way.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Africans aint black wtf

Thats what the Coli told me

 

[010101]

history is really fiction written by winners*

 

[UncleTomFord15]

They kept stressing how certain places in Africa weren’t Black because they weren’t sub-Saharan… They couldn’t pull that with Mansa Musa being from Mail. They probably tried tho

They tried saying ancient Zimbabwe was a non black civilization aswell