>North African sources describe what some consider to be visits to the New World by a Mali fleet in 1311.[59] According to these sources, 400 ships from the Mali Empire discovered a land across the ocean to the West after being swept off course by ocean currents. Only one ship returned, and the captain reported the discovery of a western current to Prince Abubakari II; the off-course Mali fleet of 400 ships is said to have conducted both trade and warfare with the peoples of the western lands. It is claimed that Abubakari II abdicated his throne and set off to explore these western lands. In 1324, the Mali king Mansa Musa is said to have told the Arabic historian Al-Umari that "his predecessors had launched two expeditions from West Africa to discover the limits of the Atlantic Ocean."
>mfw Mansa Musa of Portugal actually discovered Brazil
tl;dr
WE WUZ
MOORZ
WE WUZ EXPLORERS AND SHIT
NAVIGATORZ
im sorry, but portugal is white
>>52652298
t. Alberto Barbosa
>>52652298
t. Alberto H. Barbosa
Some African-American girl in this history GE class I took was trying to say something like this, about how one of the Mansa's in Mali discovered the Americas.
I don't know why it was so difficult for her to understand that the professor saying that there is extremely little evidence to support the idea is not outright denial that it ever happened. In fact it seems a lot of people have a hard time understanding that idea in many cases - just because we lack evidence to prove something doesn't mean it didn't happen, but if we don't have the evidence we can't confidently state that it happened.
>>52651663
you mean the same way the dutch discovered australia LMAOOOO
>>52651663
>EXPLORERZ AND SHIEET
>>52656371
t. Alberto Barbosa
