الجذور التاريخية للعلاقات المتبادلة بين شمال و غرب إفريقيا

Abstract EN

Saw the northern and southern Sahara desert shores of continuity of civilization over long periods, including political, commercial and cultural areas, contributed significantly to the various intellectual and social effects across the Sahara Desert transfer, the study attempts to provide a summary of the historical links that the people and tribes gathered north of the Sahara with their counterparts from the south , seeking sufficiently ward off suspicions and post slanders has been colonialism to promote such that the Arabs were slave traders seeking to loot Africa's wealth and they were the cause of underdevelopment through the centuries, and history proves the opposite has been identified West Africa brighter ages in the period following the spread of Islam in the region, and continued until the early sixteenth century with the emergence of the first Portuguese campaigns on the west coast of Africa, and was the first direct contact with the Europeans, and today highlights the importance of reviving the historical and cultural ties between the two regions in light of regional and international reality is moving towards more political blocs and economic.