one worrisome thing about Negroland Africa history is that
seemingly
for the most part it is not written down or documented or stored in a manner that makes empirical access to it non-cubersome and makes empirical assay of it straightforward and direct
at least as far as i can tell
as/because although some Negroland Africa tribes show historical examples of writing and passing across information via hand-crafted symbols e.g the nsibidi script of the igbo tribe / igbo nation
it would seem that
by and large
information about activities in Negroland Africa from one generation to another .. dating back to the beginning of time .. are passed on by oral means / oral folk lore
and this approach self-evidently has it’s challenges e.g
(1) memory is not infallible.
thus for example MR. A who hears the history / story of his ancestry from his paternal grandfather may forget some key items of that history and thus omit them / be unable to pass them on to his children and grandchildren when passing on the history / story of the family ancestry to them
(2) folks have their own idiosyncrasies and personal predispositions. and this sometimes affects the veracity of the content they pass on to their children and grandchildren as the true history of their family / ancestry. e.g a fellow who is by nature a thief and a dishonest fellow may tell the children and grandchildren that some acres of land in the village belongs to them as their ancestors owned them and ownership of land passes down via ancestral lineage in their community WHEN IN ACTUAL FACT that lying family history teller / history repository knows full well that the lands he is telling lies about NEVER EVER BELONGED TO THEIR FAMILY.
(3) usually such oral passing on of history often necessarily RESTRICTS ITSELF TO happenstances pertaining directly ( .. and sometimes indirectly .. ) to THEIR OWN FAMILY and often ignores or does not give account of developments / happenstances concerning the ENTIRE TRIBE / ENTIRE NATION
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