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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
Analyzing North African Travelers Accounts: Written documents constitute the main evidence that historians use to interpret the past. Analyzing written documentation as primary source evidence requires thinking about the perspectives that the author brings to the account. For Africa’s pre-colonial history much of the written documentation comes from foreign travellers who wrote their observations of the societies that they encountered. Write a 200-250 word post reflecting on Ibn Battuta’s observations of life in ancient Mali and on the Swahili Coast. What do these accounts illustrate about how West Africans lived and how East Africans lived? In what ways does Ibn Battuta’s account reflect the perspective of a North African traveller seeking to document the fourteenth century Muslim world? What is useful about this outsiders account and what do you find problematic? Include at least one question for discussion.Â
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