The African Union led by South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (pic) does not recognize the victorious rebels as the legitimate government of Lybia. The rebels are mercilessly killing all the Africans that fall into their hands. History is pressing ahead vigorously but it is not exclusively European history anymore.
Zuma has fathered his 20th child, although the baby is by a woman who is not one of his five current wives. A delegation visited the family in Soweto on Zuma's behalf, discussing the customary Zulu payment (inhlawulo) made when a baby is born out of wedlock.
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History was never exclusively European -only the WRITING of history. In the end (and in some ways we are approaching the end) Europeans were a small minority of the world's population (growing ever smaller) and their domination of the rest of the world was an unsustainable fluke due to a surge in technology that put them at a temporary advantage. The era of dominance might have lasted longer if the Europeans had merely used their weapons to dominate others in unfair battles (guns vs. spears) but instead they fought among relative equals and in this way killed millions of their finest. The US did the same it its Civil War and while the North recovered rapidly due to immigration, the South remained backward for another century due to the after effects of the war - you cannot kill all your best and brightest and not pay the price later.
K
Arabs think Moammar is Jewish.
Granted the current demographic trends are unfavorable, but it's a bit early to write the epitaph for Europe. Predicting long-term demographic trends is unreliable. The birthrate of European Muslims could decline, some new technology could bring prosperity to Europe and raise the birthrates among the natives, etc. None of that is likely in the next 10 years, but in the next 50-100 years, who knows?
Granted the current demographic trends are unfavorable, but it's a bit early to write the epitaph for Europe.
This century will not be the Libyan century?
Probably not, but 2000 years ago, what is now coastal Libya was wealthier than much of Europe north of the Alps.
Lybia (called Africa then) was peopled by a completely different people.
Not necessarily. There were certainly some individuals of Italian stock, but the pre-Conquest natives were also Romanized. The same can be seen in the Fayum sarcophagus portraits from Egypt. The had mostly adopted Greco-Roman dress, but they were clearly not all of that ethnic stock.
The current people are descended from Arab clans from Arabia. A few are Berbers. No natives left.
Not entirely so, J. Yes, there was an Arab conquest, but many people in North Africa are of Arabized Berber ancestry. In other words, not everyone in North Africa who identifies as ethnically Arab is descended from the original Arabian clans.
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