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Re:Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class on Monday November 09, 2015 @09:08AM (#10533047)
I wish some of these could be translated to English. Would probably help clarify some huge misunderstandings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu_Manuscripts
Re:Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class on Monday November 09, 2015 @08:50AM (#10532958)
Faulty and weak. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are spoken in Africa. In fact, one of the largest members of this group is spoken in West Africa (Hausa).

Although, I suspect saying "North Africa" and indeed, "Afro-Asiatic" is to imply or ascribe non-blackness.

The influence of the "Ajami" scripts are also not being mentioned: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script

This was used to write several major African languages in the precolonial era: Swahili, Hausa, Somali, Yoruba, Mandinka, Wolof, and others.