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Alcuin said:
Haroun ibn Battuta described the Canaries current over 100 years before Columbus. Although ibn Battuta was no sailor, he had the story from the Sultan of Mali who said that his predecessor had never returned from an expedition to find out what was on the other side of the Atlantic, despite having heard of this fierce current from the sole survivors of a similar expedition.

The African Kingdoms were very powerful at this time. WI America was discovered by black muslims from the Sahara in the 1290's rather than white Christians from Europe in 1492
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