Archaeologist Skillfully Destroys Many People’s ‘Distorted View of Africa’ in a Run Down of West Africa’s Precolonial History

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University College of London Institute of Archaeology professor Kevin
C. MacDonald tells host Anthony Costello about some of the amazing
historical facts about west Africa through his continued excavations and
archaeological digs.

According to MacDonald, west Africa had towns and urban centers by
1200 BCE with as many as 20,000 people living and working together.

“In Nigeria, you have some of west Africa’s earliest art traditions,”
he explains. ” In central Nigeria, you have a very sophisticated
figurative art tradition, terracotta tradition by 800 BCE, going
hand-in-hand with iron metallurgy in that area.”

The
expert points out that the European land-grab for Africa came at a low
point in the continent’s history. It would be a different outcome if
Europeans tried invading 200-300 years earlier.

“… At that point any European attempt to control Africa would be repulsed,” MacDonald believes.

To him, the trans-Atlantic slave trade was the determining factor in the downfall of many of these great west African empires.

reblogging this for what he is saying about the art and archaeology and such