May 25, 2026
African Empires That Were More Advanced Than Medieval Europe
Before European explorers mapped the continent, Mali’s Mansa Musa crashed the global gold market, Timbuktu ran a university of 25,000 students, and Great Zimbabwe’s stone walls stood without…
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The Dark Economics of the Slave Trade
In 1781, the captain of a British slave ship called the Zong ordered 133 enslaved Africans thrown overboard into the Atlantic Ocean. Not because of a storm. Not…
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