African Dominion
by Michael Gomez · first published 2018
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…people (not just the nobility) it is unlikely that vast numbers of people were forced to mine it as slaves. I see we're at the part where you just make stuff up. Here is what actual historians say; from "African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa" [0] by Michael A. Gomez [1], a recent and excellent history of the Mali Empire: >Mali as a critical source of servile labor is overshadowed…
on “A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of an African civilisation” ↗The wikipedia page about the Mali Empire [1] has a few books in the Further Reading section. This one looks promising: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34928286-african-dominio...
on “Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)” ↗