Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Vasco da Gama and Ahmad ibn Majid Probably met when Da Gama was stationed in Tangiers, Morocco.

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Vasco da Gama was stationed in Tangiers in 1478. Tangiers is on the West Coast of Africa. The Sofala arjûza was written in 1470, this was...

Subrahmanyam is Wrong Vasco da Gama did meet Ahmad ibn Majid

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Sanjay Subrahmanyam , in the The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama , does not destroy the idea that Vasco da Gama met Ahmad ibn Majid. Subr...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Ibn Majid Regretted Helping Vasco da Gama Reach India

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There are 15 reasons I believe that Majid met Vasco da Gama in West Africa, and Majid was a West African. 1) Bazan says that West Africans...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Was there a West African Community in the Indian Ocean and Pacific?

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The Ottoman story about Ahmad ibn Majid life is probably fiction.The Ottomans probably placed Majid's home in Oman because other Wes...

Ahmad ibn Majid May have met Vasco Da Gama in West Africa--Not Malindi East Africa

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There were many people involved in the creation of the Compass. Ahmad ibn Majid contributed to making the compass a better tool for navigati...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Ahmad ibn Majid: the West African Navigator

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 The Turks claim that Ahmad ibn Majid was an Omani. Other researchers claim Vasco Da Gama met Majid in West Africa. The informa...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

African Origin of Mississippian and South Death Cult Mounds

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In 1310 Mansa [King] Abubakari of the Mali Empire set sail from his Kingdom in West Africa to visit the lands across the Atlantic.   In th...