Question

how was information preserved and shared in West Africa for most of the Region's history​

Answer 1

Societies throughout sub-Saharan Africa have preserved knowledge about the past through verbal, visual, and written art forms. Often, the responsibility of recording historical information was consigned to professional historians, trusted individuals whose superior wisdom and training equipped them to remember and interpret vast stores of information for the benefit of the community. In centralized states and chiefdoms, historians were often religious or political advisors who regulated royal power, supporting or checking it as necessary.

Records and narratives kept by African historians are among the most informative sources for the reconstruction of precolonial history on the continent. Epics about heroic warriors and kings performed by jeliw (sing. jeli), a hereditary class of singers in the western Sudan, provide a detailed political history of this region that has been corroborated by contemporaneous Arabic texts. In Central Africa, Kuba historians have maintained royal chronologies that include references to the solar eclipse of 1680 and the 1835 sighting of Halley’s comet. These events have enabled researchers to assign approximate dates to key moments in the development of the Kuba kingdom.

Answer 2

How was information preserved and shared in West Africa for MOST of the region's history?

Answer☺️

Cities' resources were in high demand and overland trade routes connected them to North Africa.

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