Mapping Process will always help us in many ways to understand (good insight) our history and to help us highlight what is still hidden. Pictured below is a map which shows Afrika’s Empires, City States and Groups around 1500 CE with the trade networks which was connected to the Eurasian trade system. On the coastline, the main harbors that became the main core of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (well known as the Afrikan Diaspora) after the invasion by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Great Britain.
Historical maps can always help us understand how we got to this point, will help us to understand better capitalist and imperialism dynamics as well to help us deconstuct old myths.