Africans in Medieval Europe
I was watching Nat Geo's "The Decrypters," and was awestruck by the founding and research of an African male in Medieval Britain. Quickly a flashback of Kevin Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Theives entered my brain. And even though the ear-cringing dialect that Kevin painstakingly tried to articulate, (no offence, Mr. Costner, I do still love you in Dances with Wolves ,) the one interesting subject was Morgan Freeman's portrayal of Azeem, a Moor who traveled to Britain during the Third Crusade. Now that made a more provocative story-line. Then I thought about William Shakespeare's Othello . Even though the play was written at the turn of the 15th Century, but it was actually inspired by an Italian poem forty years prior. So now that leaves me to contemplate the influences of Africans in Europe before the slave-trade became such a horrific commodity. To recap on the very brief history of "The Decrypter's" epis