HOW WAS THE AFRICAN CONTINENT BEFORE COLONIZATION

It’s been more than a decade since colonization hit the African continent. Since then, the continent and it’s people have lost so much, many aspects of history that builds their pride. I strongly believe that, most things that are believed to have been introduced through colonization were once in Africa. The continent was given what they already had in a different form in exchange for so much. Here are five undeniable facts about how the continent was before colonization of the Europeans

How Africa was before colonialism (Myths)
There was no technology before colonization. Africa’s civilization made no contribution to modern technology. Africans knew nothing
about trade. Africans were not civilized. 
There was no education
A Few Undeniable Facts
● Education 
In 295 BC, the Library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt. It was considered the largest
library in the classical world.
Al-Azhar University, founded in 970~972 as a madrasa, is the chief centre of Arabic
literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world. The oldest degree-granting university in
Egypt after Cairo University, its establishment date may be considered 1961 when
non-religious subjects were added to its curriculum.
Three philosophical schools in Mali existed during the country’s “golden age” from the 12th
to the 16th centuries: University of Sankore, Sidi Yahya University, and Djinguereber
University.

295 BC, the Library of Alexandria was founded in Egypt.

Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt

• ASTRONOMY
  Based on the translation of 14 Timbuktu manuscripts, the following points can be made
  about Timbuktu astronomical science during the 12th–16th centuries:
  They made use of the Julian Calendar.
  Generally speaking, they had a heliocentric view of the solar system.
  Diagrams of planets and orbits made use of complex mathematical calculations.
  Scientists developed an algorithm that accurately oriented Timbuktu to Mecca.

Timbuktu Manuscripts is a blanket term for the large number of historically important manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, Mali. Askai Mohammad I.

They recorded astronomical events, including a meteor shower in August 1583
At this time, Mali also had a number of astronomers including the emperor and scientist
Askia Mohammad I.
MATHEMATICS
The Lebombo bone from the mountains between Swaziland and South Africa may be the
oldest known mathematical artifact.[22] It dates from 35,000 BCE and consists of 29 distinct
notches that were deliberately cut into a baboon’s fibula

Oldest Mathematical object found in Africa
Lebombo bone

MEDICINE
The knowledge of inoculating oneself against smallpox seems to have been known to West
Africans, more specifically the Akan. A slave named Onesimus explained the inoculation
procedure to Cotton Mather during the 18th century; he reported to have gotten the
knowledge from Africa.
European travelers in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Uganda and Rwanda) during the
19th century reported cases of surgery in the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara. One observer
noted a “surgical skill which had reached a high standard”.Caesarean sections were
performed on a regular basis with the use of antiseptics, anaesthetics and of cautery
iron.

1)Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s) was an African-born man who helped mitigate the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston. 2)Flag of the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara

Maritime Technology
In 1987 the third oldest canoe in the world and the oldest in Africa, the Dufuna canoe, was
discovered in Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen near the Yobe river and the village of Dufuna. It
dates to approximately 8000 years ago, and was made from African mahogany.
In the 14th century CE King Abubakari II, the brother of King Mansa Musa of the Mali
Empire is thought to have had a great armada of ships sitting on the coast of West
Africa.[113] This is corroborated by ibn Battuta himself who recalls several hundred Malian
ships off the coast.[114] The ships would communicate with each other by drums. This has
led to great speculation, that Malian sailors may have reached the coast of Pre-Columbian

third oldest canoe in the world and the oldest in Africa, the Dufuna canoe

Musa of the Mali. 
Richest Man Ever Lived

America under the rule of Abubakari II, nearly two hundred years before Christopher
Columbus.

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