The Gambia

The period of 1000 – 1500 C.E. was a very tumultuous and transformative time, but as the world was changing, it was also coming closer together. The trans-continental trade, travel, and the exchange of ideas between cultures began to emerge as commonplace. Both the Indian-Ocean and the Sub-Saharan trade routes grew in popularity due to many factors, these factors having both positive and negative effects on Eurasia and the African continents. The interactions that occurred between peoples and…

Introduction The empire of Mali was formed in the year of 1230 in Mali. The empire was formed by a man named Sundiata Keita, also known as ‘lion king’, and had many other leaders after his death. The most popular ruler was Mansa Musa, because of his extreme wealth and introducing Islam into the empire. The empire lost power in the 14 hundreds,after the death of Musa, but totally fell apart and ended in the year of 1600 lasting 370 years, the lack of leadership after his death was the main reason…

Africa’s Involvement in the Great War World War I is considered the “Great War” by many, and is the first modern war that has spanned all continents. Though it appears to mainly consist of European powers such as Germany, France, and Britain, the war affected all continents, especially Africa. While many overlook or forget the involvement of Africa in the Great War, it did play a significant role in the start and conclusion of the war. Africa was not a sideshow of WWI, but was vital to the…

Think back to a time in third grade when the teacher stood at the head of the class and began talking about the horrors of slavery. On March 25th, 1807, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was abolished (Thipanyane). But when one door closes, another door opens. The general consensus was that slavery was a thing of the past, but a new form of slavery has emerged. Human trafficking is just modernized slavery happening beneath the noses of governments across the world. This is a particular problem…

everywhere. The film chronicled not only the slave experience, but shed light too many whom otherwise would not know that slaves were in fact thriving and civilized prior to Americas slave experience. The film begins with Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka warrior of Gambia, West Africa, who had come from a strong lineage of royal warrior leaders in his village. One day Kunta Kinte was beat and kidnapped and awoke to find himself chained as a prisoner. He had now become part of what we know as the Middle…

+Adam Molani IQ is not affected by education or environment. "Negroid" is the official scientific namo of the black sub-saharan race who have an average IQ of 68. Stop pretending you know about this subject. For over a century the IQ of people in every country has been intensively studied and thousands of international IQ surveys have been averaged out by hundreds of Universities to give reliable average IQ figures for each country. The racial correlation with IQ has been confirmed by EVERY…

countries who still use the death penalty; AFGHANISTAN, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, BAHAMAS, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELIZE, BOTSWANA, CHAD, CHINA, COMOROS, CONGO (Democratic Republic), CUBA, DOMINICA, EGYPT, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ETHIOPIA, GAMBIA, GUATEMALA, GUINEA, GUYANA, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, JAMAICA, JAPAN, JORDAN, KOREA (North), KUWAIT, LEBANON, LESOTHO, LIBYA, MALAYSIA, NIGERIA, OMAN, PAKISTAN, PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, QATAR, RUSSIA, SAINT KITTS & NEVIS, SAINT LUCIA, SAINT…

Back home, in The Gambia, I had a different perspective about effective learning, the same way I believe the many students currently learning there do. That is due to the fact that the system of learning was complete different. There were mostly two things involved in such…

Clad in old, ragged clothes with a parrot perched on a shoulder, black eye patches and wooden legs; these people made enemies walk planks and buried treasures on lands unknown. They are called pirates and what we know about them is just half the story of what actually happened on those ships. Piracy was an epoch in the history of civilizations and it too had a Golden Period. The Golden Period of Piracy lasted from mid-1650 to mid-1720s but it started when the Pope divided the New World between…

Along with several other forts and factories in other such as Sierra Leone, the Slave Coast, the River Gambia, and pleather of other places along the Gold Coast, Creating a monopoly of the slave trade. Thus making it extremely difficult for others to gain any traction on the slave trade, this would prove itself to be the Royal African Slave biggest mistake…