from 1150 A.D. --> 1450 A.D.?
African scholars were most learned scholars in the world. At this time, Europe was in it's dark ages & engaged in the 100 years war, and the rest of the world wasn't a whole lot different. It was at this time in history when the Mali scholars of Timbuktu were pioneering advances in the studies of Mathematics, Literature, Astronomy, Logic, Ethnography, Music , & technology. A time when Blacks, who are purported to be the LEAST intellectual group in the 21st century, were revered as academics the same way Asians & Whites are now--they were the Stephen Hawkings, Galileo's, & Shakespeares of their time