Isaac Samuel's African History Extra
"the terms ‘North-Africa’ and ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’ are today considered politically expedient by those who seek to reinforce or subvert colonial narratives
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) February 11, 2024
But for whatever reason these terms exist today, they didn't exist in the pre-colonial world"https://t.co/9ANvkKci3x
simplified copy of al-idrisi's world map and its translation
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) February 11, 2024
'medieval Islamic geographers had no term for the African continent, nor did they have a collective term for "black" African
both were invented much later in colonial geography'https://t.co/9ANvkKcPT5 pic.twitter.com/fYvJjyjbUF
"There was no broad term for the entire African continent in Islamic geography, nor was there a collective term for “black” Africans.
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) February 11, 2024
Ibn Khaldun cautioned readers about the specificity of the geographic terms and ethnonyms like Habash, Zanj, and Sudan"https://t.co/9ANvkKcPT5
"Colonialists advanced a Western epistemological understanding of their colonies, classifying races, cultures, and geographies, while disregarding local knowledge.
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) February 11, 2024
Pre-existing concepts of ethnicity were racialized, and new identities were created"https://t.co/9ANvkKci3x
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