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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jari-Ankhamun: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [qb] Doug, My point is not whether suicide in of itself ever occurs or could be factored at all into "death rate statistics" amongst African tragedies, but that suicide is comparatively low for a people that are heavily stereotyped with Armageddon-style beyond-hope image mainly held by 'westerners' glued to TV sets and stuck on the internet all day long, but never actually travel, let alone set foot in Africa, i.e. when compared to suicide incidences among "westerners", who like to brag like crazy about being economically better off than Africans. Interestingly, visible sections of "westerners", a better chunk of which are reactionary 'whites', have disdain for Africans, an attitude for which they generally have little cause, since much of the time Africans mind their [i]own[/i] business, unlike 'western' states who constantly [i]parasitically[/i] meddle in internal African affairs, and are not too much caught up on vile Eurocentric propaganda about them and why euros are so obsessively reactive about them. Case in point, it is mostly euro loons who come here just to let 'blacks' or Africans know how much they hate them. Conversely, few Africans, at least the level-headed ones, do the reverse, i.e. go to euro-dedicated boards just for the sole purpose of giving it to them euros about how they are despised, even though Africans [i]actually[/i] have genuine ample cause to do such. But enough of this, lest the main topic is lost. So I reiterate my last point, which was that... Timbuktu was a notable learning center of the then reigning Arab/Islamic world in the geopolitical network of the westward oriented hemisphere. The richly preserved literacy record of the place speaks for itself. And like someone reckoned earlier, it is only a matter of time when the Timbuktu initiative that brought this about will be downplayed, to give credit elsewhere it is undue. It is the old age Eurocentric need to falsely convince themselves of the inert superiority, and eliminate anything African that contradicts this [Case in point, is the post immediately above mine]. The point: A backwater is rarely a center of learning; yet reading the ignorance spewed here every now and then, this is the picture one is predisposed to getting about 'medieval' western Sudanic complexes. [/qb][/QUOTE]Exporer you are right, Timbuctou was a testament to the pioneering and intellectual capabilities of the Africans in that region. Despite this people will just bring up that its "Arab" culture and that "Arabs" and "Berbers" taught the dumb natives etc. Yet forget that the Arabs and Berbers were taught by other Africans and people like Egyptians, Jews, Persians, Chinese, Indians etc. so how can it be Arab culture. Anyway back to the topic I hope they translate and publish some of the Manuscripts. Im interseted in what the manuscripts hold. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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