>>11317454They used iron weapons, had cavalry and used cannons. I've never heard of Africans using trebuchets though. If you removed guns that they received during trades, I'd say that west African forest kingdoms were equal to the Gauls in terms of tech. Benin, Dahomey and the Kongo were not medieval. Malians, Somalis, Chadians, the people of Sudan and Ethiopia were definitely medieval though.
>How about full plate armor?Full plate of armor in humid tropical zones? Come on. They did used chain-mail and some did use Pangolin scales.
Honestly, 4chan is not the greatest place to be if you want to learn about African history. According to 4chan, Africans didn't even exit the stone age before the colonial era began.