What Is The West's Ignorance Of Sub-Saharan Africa

The culture of Africa is impacted by the way that the West had total ignorance of sub-Saharan Africa. The West was unaware of sub-Saharan Africa because of the geographical, political, religious and economic differences. Africa is isolated geographically where early communication would have been a problem, but the West was still ignorant as of relatively recent times.

A possible explanation to the West being ignorant of sub-Saharan Africa is because of the geography. With this part of Africa being fairly large and it not bordering any of the Western countries they could have easily been isolated. The few countries that would border Europe are isolated by a body of water that in early times was probably extremely difficult to across if it

was even possible for the time. Africa also has a wide variety of geographical patterns. In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa the geography would b e like grasslands but other times it was dense mountains that the people of these civilizations would not have be able to cross to have communication with any other civilization.
With the coming of Islam, Africa had many changes to their politics, religion, economics, and inevitability their culture. Islam caused all of these changes that is why Africa was still isolated from the West. With Islam coming into Africa the most obvious thing to change would be the religion. In early Africa, they all had a very unique religion that was specialized for that group in particularly, yet all of Africa had a similar religion. The African religion was much different to those across the rest of the world, since everyone else had trade and communication with the surrounding civilizations. With the religion change this caused there overall culture to change because Islam is considered a way of life. The ideas behind politics were much less advanced because of the overall isolation in Africa. Africa was behind in advances, yet with economics since there was trade, the economics tended to be advanced.
The African culture was effected by the West being unaware of them. This is shown because of the arctic complexity that was expressed throughout African art. The art was unique and creative and so were the structures that were built at this time. Since Islam taken over, Africa had a written laugh with was the Arabic script which advanced their writing and literature.
The West was ignorant about sub-Saharan Africa, yet because of this Africa formed a very unique culture. This unique culture was formed because of the geographical isolation that Africa suffered from, even though it was not complete isolation it still had a large effect on Africa. Africa’s culture is not as heavily influenced by the West which makes it incredibility unique.