Premodern African History and Understanding Ethical Dimensions

Africa has always been known for violence, and usually nothing good is ever said. This module opened my eyes for many things. I discovered just how large Africa is. I seen agriculture like I have never seen it before, nor have I learned about it in any classes beyond this one. I think that is a large issue today, we do not learn properly about the African culture. I also discovered many interesting facts about communicating what is learned and how we learn it. We can learn a lot from oral communication records, but they can often be misguided as there is relativley no proof to back up the logic in them. I beleive that this is the cause for a lot of peoples misinformation about Africa.

The Historical thinking in this module was “Understanding Ethical Dimensions of History”. Basically it is asking the question of, what is important enough in history to be significant to make a judgment about in present day history. This is a really hard concept to grasp, as there are many things that you have to take into consideration when deciding what makes the cuts. All this leads up to the the question I am going to answer. “How can we use premodern African history to understand the ethical issues we face today.”

Ethical issues are at a high right now (2020–2021). Henry Louis Gates offered great words of wisdom. He stated that Africa is often looked over and only seen for poverty and disease, and not inventions that they have. Slavery has a lot to do with how we see Africa. But it has so much more to offer. Understanding the agriculture and achievements that came from Africa may help us face ethical issues we have today. Gates told us that this year many African Americans chose not to vote, and we have to understand why this is. I think that if we understand why Africans feel so astray in this country we may have a better understanding and can deduct the rasicm that we have today.