Saudi Arabia: Uncovering the history of Saudi Arabia’s Hausa community,...
Posted by theone on 4/2/2023, 2:53 am
No Sir, in the photo below, these descendants of Hausa ppl(from present day Nigeria) were not enslaved in Saudi Arabia by Abdul, in fact their ancestors escaped the British colonialism in Nigeria and settled in the Arabian Peninsula in the 19th century.
See, these Afro-Saudis have nothing to do with other Afro-Saudis in the country, particularly the Black natives as well as those from the Swahili cost and Zanzibar who were brought to Saudi Arabia by Arab slave traders.
However, the descendants of both these groups would eventually assimilate into the local/native populations of Saudi Arabia.
Well written article! Quite intellectual! But intellectualism in the Western sense! From the time he used the term "POC=person of color, I went oh-oh!
Even though he very smartly placed those African/Nigerians/Hausa beyond the usual assumptions of Blacks in Saudi Arabia being the result of the Arab slave trade, I notice that his article falls for the usual premise of the region having no Africans during ancient/Kemetic times or that the Saudi Arabian area didn't have an African presence from day one!
LOL...they escaped British colonialism & christianity just to fall for another form of colonialism and religious dogma. They might as well have stayed in Nigeria and practiced traditional forms of worship, even vodun. Lawwwwwd
And again, Prof. Malumfashi is a brilliant guy, but his brilliance is still framed within Western conceptions of knowledge. I hope I get a chance to see that documentary.