It doesn't have anything to do with sub saharan kingdoms...

If you’re looking for enlightenment type of stuff, then the Mali Empire and other places near it are the places to look

Egypt is in Africa, What makes a difference to not call them African?

Egypt was the greatest african civilization out there.

You are the one making these arbitrary definitions and sweeping generalizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire

The We wuz kangz meme turned bad tbh
it was first used to mock afrocentrists, which I am not against, nobody likes them
But now everytime you discuss actual African history, you get the We Wuz Kangz treatment

Apparently African just means those of black skin and the other physical features of sub saharans

Now it means those Africans completely free of European influence?

because christianity is exclusively european apparently

and means those africans who were christians weren't africans actually

Yes nations were involved in africa but who are the ones shipping in slaves the most during slavery.

Yeah, Axum going Christian in 300 AD? Didn’t happen
Christian Nubia Doens’t exist apparently

African people enslaved their own ethnic groups for moiney.

No

That’s a lie

Look at the "Hood" Same thing but they rob stores

Again, I'm not exactly sure what point is being made here...Africans are pretty clearly "behind" during most of their history. Not because they are black, but because of a variety of pretty well understood reasons

African kingdoms raided and sold people of enemy Kingdoms

yes african people enslaved people to sell as slaves, there is hardly anything surprising about it. These sweeping racial groups didn't exist in Africa, as they didn't exist in Europe.

not their own people

The African slavers, who were the more domineering groups, clearly didn't see themselves as the same as the tribes which they subdued and enslaved.

Similarly a Polish man wouldn't think he is the same as a French man in Europe

Some guy in the Benin Empire didn’t get kidnapped by his own people and sold into slavery

It's retarded

You guys are forgetting the the jewish state of Israel had merchant guilds and traders that heavily invested in the slave trade.

They made lots of $$

It’s like me saying “Romans Enslaved other Europeans, Europeans look a like and are the same race, Therefore, Europeans enslaved their own people”

the romans didn't feel any connection to the celts and germanics whom they enslaved

Yes of course. But were talking about the time of slavery so stop trying to divert the topic

Lol slavery is garbage. Any society that used slaves is morally defunct

neither did the slavers from the kingdom of the kongo and wherever else the europeans received their slaves

felt any connection to the people they subdued and enslaved

they were different tribes and foreign groups

Its called being decadent mister cosby. look it up

I’m not, I’m giving a comparison to what you said, you act like they busted into their own people’s houses and just abducted them

so the europeans who bought the african slaves were decadent then?

Bro every great nation unfortunately has been built upon slavery

Wait what’s happening

African history discussion

Black people