The Gold of Wangara (2)

 Hi guys,

Image: An improvised flea market at Sahel

Courtesy:  Photo: PGskot | CC BY-SA 4.0

I began processing the data I have collected about the Wangara traders. This association was a merchant network that linked the gold producers of West Africa with the entrepots in the Sahel. Gold for the salt exchange was the most obvious but not the only one avenue of this counteraction. 

The material is controversial and I am unsure what will the outcome be. For example, what weight I would give for the empires of Western Sudan: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. There is much data but since I am a novice in African history, it is not easy to decide where I should stop. Besides, my main interest in this project seems to be maritime discoveries, so how much room should be provided for economic and human interest history?  

The first three chapters of my projects are available on my page at Academia:

https://www.academia.edu/41214506/How_Wide_Spans_the_Ocean_Sea

https://www.academia.edu/42166248/Beyond_the_Pillars_of_Hercules

https://www.academia.edu/43517659/The_Rediscovered_Islands

I hope I have found another site where I can upload my articles. I have to check if they accept the same papers that I have already placed on Academia. It might be another part of my reading audience who attends virtual libraries but not academic sites. If I succeed, I will tell you about my progress. 

I would like to read and analyze my correspondence with the scientists who left comments on my article about barbarians:

 https://www.academia.edu/44115626/Beware_of_Barbarians

I hope to repeat this wonderful experience with my future papers. 

I also interacted with Jack Snowden concerning his latest paper

https://www.academia.edu/44238803/Italian_Invasion_of_Ottoman_Rhodes_May_1912_Ottoman_Surrender_at_Psithos_on_Rhodes

Jack engages in the history of the Ottoman Empire. 

Wish you good luck and safe passage throughout these troubled times.