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Re:People of Africa (1921) by cb18 on Monday April 11, 2016 @07:10PM (#11475871)
I'm sure those living in Timbuktu were writing books about how the English living in London at the time were barbarians in capable of learning to read or write.

You're sure about that, even though there is zero evidence whatsoever for it?

Also, nowhere in this discussion has anyone said that anybody was incapable of learning to read or write. But rather that this was a skill imparted to the Africans by the Europeans.

Re:People of Africa (1921) by astrodust on Monday April 11, 2016 @11:24PM (#11477023)
> But rather that this was a skill imparted to the Africans by the Europeans.

Well, wow. Nope. Africans have been reading and writing before there even was such a thing as Europe. They had Aramaic and Arabic by way of Egypt and Ethiopia alone.