Chapter Summary Of Black By Malik Ambar

I am a South Asian and I have grown up knowing the stories of Shah Jahan and Jahangir being great kings, but I never heard about Malik Ambar. I never even knew any African playing any role in India. I guess it’s not just the European or American didn’t want to give the African any credit for what they had accomplished before everyone else. This chapter gives us many important historical information that we were never taught in school or heard in our lives about African great ruler and trader. This priceless history showed us a point of view of African that we are not used to seeing. When we think of African, the word slaves automatically come to our mind and we are not used to using the words king, trader, or ruler when we talk about African.

When we look at the history book, it’s like African are nothing more than an object that everyone took advantage of. However, when we read this chapter the African look more like a little prince who was kidnapped from a palace and left in a trash that when he grew up no one remembered who he used to be except his parent. Even though the African were ruling the world before the European even start exploring the world still the European made it seem like they were the first one to teach the humanity how to civilize. Furthermore, this chapter doesn’t only tell us how powerful the African used to be, it also tells us that the Muslim wasn’t only ruling the India, but those Muslims were also African who comes to India as traders and start influencing the Indian history forever even though they didn’t get any credit for it. Also, from this chapter, we can learn that how the European has destroyed the African reputation in the world, which made the African suffering all around the world even today they’re still suffering. This chapter did a really good job with trying to bring some light in the African history and change the view of African in the world. We can learn a lot from this chapter, for example, this chapter showed us that African wasn’t only slaves in the past, but they were also king, trader,

I remember taking world history in school and we learned about the Mughal empire, the Ottoman empire, emperor Jahangir, and emperor Shah Jahan, but there was no mention of African ever ruling the India. The best thing about this chapter is that it didn’t only talk about the African being only slaves, but it also tells us how the African used to rule India and how the Indian used to feel about African. I think this is the only book I ever read for a class that talks about African being a superior group who isn’t only a trader, but also a ruler. I am not going to lie I don’t like taking any classes about African because I feel like they always teach us about slavery and how helpless the African were in the past. The school system never teaches us anything positive about Africans, the only positive thing they teach us about African is how they gained their independence from the European. However, this chapter changed my attitude toward African, now I gained some knowledge about African that is positive and it doesn’t make the African look weak. So, I do think that this chapter did accomplish its goal, which is to bring awareness to its reader Africans are more than just a slave. Furthermore, another thing that made this chapter amazing is that it talks about architectural and artistic legacies of Africans. It is very rare to see an educational book talking about African playing