Esteban Lucumí

These are the most knowledgeable people online when it comes to African historiography - for inquisitive minds interested in positivistic objective stuffs. Sadly one is punished with the ramblings of semi-literate African charlatans hawking tales by moonlight & pop-history guff.

Th religious houses seem to have been the largest edifices one could find in Great Benin in the 1600s (outside) the walled in royal palaces

I wonder if Adam Jones is still working on the complete English translation & annotation of Dapper's text on Africa & I hope he would not err in the annotation that Dapper was the first to make note of the Benin plaques as he once did? *since it was Sandoval* decades earlier

Micheau who seems to have specialised in Medieval Baghdad in the intermittent periods it was under the Abbasids classifies it as a city known only through texts. This is what I tried to point out to some charlatan (who ended up stealing an excerpt I posted some days later)

One Spaniard in the 1650s that spent many months there & *got imprisoned & watched over by tamed leopards, thrown out of the palace, favoured by the Queen mother etc* apart from noting that it was a very large city, he declared it to be a greater city compared to (1650s) Madrid

Most times, I just don't want to sound mad weird since I had to clean my reasoning & intellectually mature. However, it's just pitiful Moreover, being a reader of early modern Benin has just been a watershed moment for me with regards to my engagement with African history

That did not stop you from coming online in 2022 to attribute slave sales/exports of/by Allada & Ouidah in the 1500s & 1600s to Dahomey when you got drunk from siding with nazi groypers & charlatan imbeciles online whining about Dahomey & ze slave trade

The day before yesterday I bathed/showered/washed my body three times. Yesterday, I did that twice & today, three times. I have never felt more like an African in the guinea coast from 400 years ago

In 1506, it was noted that the Castilian Jewish children sent to Sao Tome in 1485 were of age & most of the women among them procreated with the black men on the Island & only few with the white men on the Island. They were probably the first "snowbunnies"

If one is on tour in Sao Tome & Principe, do the tour guides tell people that the Island is the place two potentates from the Bight of Benin in the historical times (a 1500s Benin potentate & a 1600s Allada potentate) got educated

Here are the two things that brought fame to Benin's history - Bronze casting industry - Earthen walls & ditches If you can provide me with positivistic objective data that tells me that these two things were taught to Benin by Ife I would delete my account

Was al-Ghudaf the medieval "Ethiopian" freebooter (that seized the city of al-Anbar in contemporary Iraq) from contemporary Ethiopia or Sudan?

The coast from southern Liberia till eastern Ivory coast was the "Quaqua Coast" that shunned the TAST. Per Brun, the people of the area distrusted going on European ships to trade because the French on several occasions took their goods, kidnapped them & sold them into slavery

Some dude with his junk theory thinks there was some plaque wiping out populations in 1300s W. Africa & thinks the mass burial pit of 19-24 yr old women in Benin in 1200s-1300s contexts serves as evidence. Anyone who knows their stuff knows they were sacrificial victims

The Calabar traders going to the metropolitan areas of Benin in the late 1600s to trade *who also used to get kidnapped* by Ijaw pirates were surely not utilising the Inland route from Benin to Calabar which some Portuguese traders were aware of, but were using the coastal one

If Dom Adao in Lisbon in the early 1540s, seeking the establishment of a Christian church in Allada was the sole Allada ambassador to foreign royals, he was probably the Allada ambassador in Great Benin in the 1530s that got detained along with some Portuguese missionaries