tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post4118083394009958720..comments2023-08-26T09:41:34.197-06:00Comments on Africa: Rare Analyses and Knowledge-base: Knowledge-base Tool Kit: What's with all this not Getting "Africa" Right?Mystery Solverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-92055721298438189082011-06-02T09:03:42.334-06:002011-06-02T09:03:42.334-06:00In reply to Andrew Oh-Willeke:
Andrew,
you are ...In reply to Andrew Oh-Willeke:<br /><br />Andrew, <br /><br />you are in dire need of basic history lessons on Africa. The blog entry is actually directed at the sort of ignorance and/or misinformation you display in your comments. Your "black & white" dichotomy of the "north African problem" and "sub-Saharan problem" is an assuring sign that you don't even Mystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-17980677793267697592011-06-02T08:42:23.404-06:002011-06-02T08:42:23.404-06:00Too Tall Jones, go on ahead -- teach Mr. Willeke a...Too Tall Jones, go on ahead -- teach Mr. Willeke away.Mystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-68829611303954187632011-06-02T08:31:14.339-06:002011-06-02T08:31:14.339-06:00Accidentally erased this comment by Andrew Oh-Will...Accidentally erased this comment by Andrew Oh-Willeke:<br /><br />Yes, it is surely embarassing that important people don't recognize that Egypt and Libya and Tunisia are in Africa, an undisputable fact. But, these Freudian slips reflect truths about the human makeup of the regions.<br /><br />One has to be intentionally self-deceiving not to recognize that North Africa is far stronger Mystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-43377872681377959162011-05-21T14:16:04.018-06:002011-05-21T14:16:04.018-06:00Wilkie says:
North Africans are generally much mor...Wilkie says:<br /><b>North Africans are generally much more similar to Middle Easterners and Iberians than to most of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa. North Africa was part of the Roman Empire, Sub-Saharan Africa was not. North Africa was part of Phoencian trade routes, Sub-Saharan Africa was not. The genetic divide is at least as old as the drying up of the "wet sahara" based on Research datahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03196376215603452760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-51881761824711323332011-05-21T14:15:45.214-06:002011-05-21T14:15:45.214-06:00A. Wilkie said:
One has to be intentionally self-d...A. Wilkie said:<br /><b>One has to be intentionally self-deceiving not to recognize that North Africa is far stronger cultural ties and historical ties to Arabia than to Sub-Saharan Africa. North Africa is predominantly Muslim, Sub-Saharan Africa is not. North Africa's pre-colonial languages are Afro-Asiatic, Sub-Saharan pre-colonial languages are mostly Nilo-Saharan or Niger-Congo or KhoisanResearch datahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03196376215603452760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-51761043736736982222011-04-04T00:59:30.737-06:002011-04-04T00:59:30.737-06:00mghani:
Good article. But what i noticed also in t...mghani:<br /><i>Good article. But what i noticed also in the media's coverage was the myth of the black mercenaries--black africans supposedly hired from abroad to massacre light skin indigenous libyans. Such coverage suggests that blacks in Libya or North Africa are not indigenous groups, but all foreigners.Reminds me of poor Maiherpra, the New Kingdom prince discovered in the Valley of the Mystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-79168594896993432732011-04-04T00:32:49.962-06:002011-04-04T00:32:49.962-06:00Andrew Oh-Willeke:
Yes, it is surely embarassing ...Andrew Oh-Willeke: <br /><i>Yes, it is surely embarassing that important people don't recognize that Egypt and Libya and Tunisia are in Africa, an undisputable fact.</i><br /><br />That is the whole point of the topic. The inability of supposed grown ups to get simple geography right.<br /><br />Andrew Oh-Willeke: <br /><i>One has to be intentionally self-deceiving not to recognize that NorthMystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-92127627468383320192011-04-01T11:06:08.156-06:002011-04-01T11:06:08.156-06:00Good article. But what i noticed also in the media...Good article. But what i noticed also in the media's coverage was the myth of the black mercenaries--black africans supposedly hired from abroad to massacre light skin indigenous libyans. Such coverage suggests that blacks in Libya or North Africa are not indigenous groups, but all foreigners.Reminds me of poor Maiherpra, the New Kingdom prince discovered in the Valley of the Kings, who was mghanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17731658008758249265noreply@blogger.com