Did the Mali Empire Travel to America – Feb 27, 2021
Did the Mali Empire Travel to America – Feb 27, 2021
Seriah interviews John Chewter about pre-Columbian expeditions to the Americas by the Mali Empire, an Islamic society in West Africa. Topics include anomalous artifacts, lost history, Mansa Musa, Persian rescue of the works in the Library of Alexandria, Islamic preservation/advances in mathematics and science, Chinese expeditions to the…
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A great show if you have the patience, my 3rd attempt at listening… Yeh? Yeh? Yeh? x2000… Yeh? Yeh?
Looking to do a interview to promote my channel, very intelligent on this topic, thanks!
Sounds like alan moore
John is always interesting to listen to and talk with. Love it when you have him as a guest, Seriah. ❤️
I came back to listen to this episode again.
Keen to give it another go. After my brief exchange with John (who seems like a decent guy, btw!) in the comments, I was encouraged to do some more reading.
There's some interesting overviews and sensible examinations and refutations of the hypothesis and I've linked to another article on Mali's empire and the problems of historical certainty surrounding accounts of the Mansa regime.
Some of the details of the Mansa/Abu Bakarii II story are explored in great detail.
Haslip‐Viera, G., De Montellano, B., & Barbour, W. (1997). Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima's Afrocentricity and the Olmecs. Current Anthropology, 38(3), 419-441. doi:10.1086/204626 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/204626
Bell, N. (1972). The Age of Mansa Musa of Mali: Problems in Succession and Chronology. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 5(2), 221-234. doi:10.2307/217515
Fauvelle, F., & Tice, T. (2018). The Sultan and the Sea: Coast of Present-Day Senegal or Gambia, around 1312. In The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages (pp. 160-168). PRINCETON; OXFORD: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvc77kzq.28
Wow… this comment section, though. It's amazing to me how personally people take things, that literally, have no impact on their lives. You're still in front of your computer, bored, and you're going to wake up again tomorrow, and be the same you.
As for the white supremacists…. they seem pretty outraged, for people so supreme. My two cents: the truly supreme beings on this planet, are on mountain tops, humming to themselves, unbothered, by literally anything, anyone does. FYI, those people have a habit, of being a distinct shades of brown.
American continent was a crossroads imho. All sorts of people groups crossing the Pacific and Atlantic for thousands of years.
This is the wildest I’ve ever seen a wdtrg comment thread 😂😂 Seriah you’re doin something right!
Excellent episode gents! This is funny, I was just watching a video about essentially the opposite of this. The Tartars settling the Middle East. It was really interesting but about halfway through I realized I was most likely listening to nazi propaganda so I had to turn it off
Go home John, you're drunk!
Embarrassingly painful
Sorry.
Very interesting topic, this guy though is just going
5 mph. It's putting me to sleep. I tried. Punching out at 4 minutes in, cannot do 80 minutes of this. My apologies Seriah, gonna listen to a diff episode instead so I'm here – in spirit —EDIT/6 months after on 9/9/21, I'm giving another go.Please don't do his show on Zimbabwe! Sounded like a guy in a pub rambling to his mate after 5 pints! You have more patience than me Seriah.
Sorry guys. I was recovering from flu and had a banging head. I will not trouble you gain.
I don't think he means Somalia
Great show, if you can please get teletubbies next, maybe one of them wrote a book about a poltergeist haunted vacuum cleaner.
No.
Wow, the comments are quite revealing. Maybe a problem with the subject matter?
RIP Jeff.
How many are upset because he mentioned Muslims reaching America?
sorry had to leave almost immed. guest was clearly unprepared – I just watched an archived show instead b/c I love WDTRG so much but this was abysmal,,
This is very hilarious. The guy doesn't even realise he is talking to the host!
We wuz kangs in America? Pre-Columbian kangs? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and this guest isn't able to do that.