While P questions the western model of developmet, he still seeks
to convince us that the Chinese model achieved the "highest
agricultural yields in the world" due to their efficient land-saving
practices. That they were as efficient, as rational, as developed, as
powerful as the westerners. This is called "polycentrism" in world
history. Never mind the "poly", if you can show that either China,
Japan, or India were as advanced as Europe, then you're ready to
join the multicultural crowd and sing "We are the World". What
about the Africans? Well......Nubia, yes, that's right, it has a nice
ring to it. But that's way back, isn't that Black Athena? That too
should be included, and later there's the Songhay empire of West
Africa, the largest state of modern Africa, including the Oyo Empire
in Nigeria, Nupe, Igala, and Benin in the lower Niger valley, or the
Hausa states of Northern Nigeria, and Kongo in central Africa.
Other ethnic groups? Oh yes, there others like the Jahaanke of the
Gambia-River Niger region; the Juula of northern Ghana, Cote
d'Ivoire, and Upper Niger River; the Wolof of Senegal; and the Awka
and Aro of Iboland in Nigeria - they were also powerful and wealthy;
they were the ethnic groups that facilitated and controlled the slave
trade. We are all equal.
A challenge to the western model this is not.
