Names of African Swords

[Changdao]

Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

Who really knows what is right or wrong in such a vast and varied region. All our information is from multi opinions that cannot be verified.

But much of it can certainly be verified, to a certain degree. There are a lot of precolonial and colonial drawings and photographies in which weapons are shown. Not all are reliable, and some should be taken with extreme caution, but when put together they paint a decent picture of the situation.

Of course, there are so many gaps in our knowledge due to a lack of study and poor sources (in the lack of archaeological evidence) that so much of the granularity is lost.