Africa maps

At the last MacArthur-sponsored forum on "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age," we talked about historian Pat Seed's digital projects that began in 1991 (the official birthyear of the internet). Her most recent on early Arabic maps of Africa made me rethink the religious-basis for early intraAfrican slavery . . . and that made me think about the religious persecutions in Europe. A new paradigm always generates new paradigms. The Inquisition as "tribal warfare."