“Sub-Saharan Africans have never invented anything” Redditors attempt to Deboonk this

And an African invented and built the best spaceships in the world today, to take us where the telescope first pointed. And he has become the richest man in the history of the world in the process.

Africans are superior to burgers.

But I, like using, commas. Even when, they don't belong, sometimes.

Our secret? We folded it a thousand and one times!

Solar-powered water purification system

This could be referring to this news from last year.

Two students invented a primitive water distillation device powered by a solar panel rather than a stovetop.

First touch-screen medical tablet (Cameroon)

Buy chinese tablet, put an app on it, hey presto you're an inventor

Reddit pond scum are so desperate for progressive political goals that they'll lie about a perfectly reasonable use of technology and say it's an invention, and they either don't care or don't notice how patronizing that is

Meh these are just assembling COTS items. It's like how black people "invented" refrigerated trucks while not inventing refrigerators or trucks.

>first touch-screen medical tablet

What even is this? They didn't invent touch screens or tablets, just decided to give them to BIPOCette nurses because they're too dumb to read or write and can only tap pictures?

The capital is Addis AbabACK

Rope has to be up there with wheel and basic stone tools at the start of human history, its easy enough to make from plants commonplace almost anywhere so this is a lie. Like the wheel and such other things no one can tell where it was first used but there were almost definitely parallel discoveries across the world. Only with things like metallurgy and so on does the tech get complicated enough diffusion becomes primary mode of spread.

subsaharan

mali

some contemporary writers said that Mansa Musa actually ran out of money on the return trip of his pilgrimage and had to borrow from the Egyptians at a high interest rate in order to get back to Mali. There is some contention on whether he repaid them or not.

>Big desert nig acting like a nig

Good thing he invested in the future of his kingdom!

Mansa Musa has been elevated into borderline mythological levels of being because he's really the only notable individual from that part of the world that people can point to for an interesting factoid

Also I wonder what mch of that "desert trade" was

Most of his money was made from slavery too.

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Spain also had inflation (a favorite fetish of furries) after the discovery of the New World. Again, sudden oversupply of Au.

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I want to keep my job

probably after seeing a white mans peepee for the first time

why do you think they were used as slaves by nearly everyone? they were still basically in the stone age when everyone else was sailing ships, figuring out the motion of the planets, inventing calculus, etc etc

i don't think racism is actually acceptable but what the frick do you expect when confronted with this reality?

Have you ever heard of an african written language or ever wondered why their history only goes back as far as when white people showed up and started writing things down?

Kind of. As in I can think of 0 paradigm-changing inventions from there which is what people actually mean by invention most times. They did invent a bunch on their own like everyone did but they had nothing that only they had that would go on to spread.

No, I'm pretty sure that they invented fire and stone tools and all that caveman jazz.

There have been plenty of inventions from south africa that the post points out

Some drank so much koolaid they think they was Aztecs and Apaches before the Natives turned on them and sold them into slavery to the Conquistadors.

Chinks invented very advanced writing just to limit free thought to an extreme degree. Invented writing is nothing tbh.

I invented writing

Cretans/Minoans had hieroglyphs and then Linear A, Myceneans had Linear B, Cypriots had Cypro-Minoan and then Cypriote (all in chronological order)

Then there's the Vinča symbols whose usage and meaning is completely lost to time, and Irish Ogham if that counts.

In other words, writing emerged where civilisations existed at the time, the eastern mediterranean. Everyone else were just ooga boogas for a long butt time.

I CAN'T BELIEVE 10 S UPVOTED THIS, ALL THOSE CULTURES MIGRATED OUT OF NOGLAND AFTRR THESE THINGS WERE invented...

They had a huge abundance of fairly high purity iron ore in the region where the Nok invented iron smelting.

it is likely that cultural slavery was widespread in Africa.

IT WAS LESS COMMON THE FURTHER SOUTH YOU WENT AND LOOKED LESS LIKE SLAVERY AS WE KNOW IT TODAY. KHOEKHOE SLAVES WERE MORE LIKE SQUIRES THAN SLAVES AND WOULD EVENTUALLY BE FREED AND INDUCTED INTO THE TRIBE, WITH A COW AND A WIFE TOO IF I recall...

that was a south african lady

I think it was marketed to mayo saffers to protect them from Africans @kaamrev do you keep one in your bussy?