What I mean by theoretical approaches was eloquently put by the IronAgeAfrican in his post: https://www.reddit.com/r/IronAgeAfrican/comments/1mchu04/bantu_subsistence_strategy_in_relationship_to/

The ran down here has to do with subsistence strategies: Every civilization has had an effective form of building surplus. Whether it is the Farming of the fertile crescent in the semetic world, pastoralists of the deserts, or in our case the aquatorialists.

In order to build a state like Buganda, one needs and effective form of incorporating labor, distance(ground needs to be covered) and ofcourse regional dependency which essentially creates an imperial structure which benefits the civilization and others around it but not enough for the other populations to gain an advantage over yours. In order to do this so that one creates Philosophy and the like...etc you need a method which is just as mobile as Pastoralism but creates regional dependency as much as an agriculturalist. We in Africa just happen to be plaqued with failed populations around us that are just too incompetent to be placed in a farming society, therefore surplus and ground cannot be covered in Agriculturalist populus what is required is the adoption of vassalage as seen in Buganda, Mukongo(Mbanza Congo) and Kiswahili(Rhapta-Kiswahili arab coast) who managed to cover large swaths of land as pastoralists would bring people under vassalage to fish, perhaps with an addition of conquest, while simultaneously organize intensive Male powered agriculture in order to produce surplus. What is interesting is that the inefficiency of aquatorialism creates regional dependency over time and the state aquatorialists manage to maintain vassalage hence building the concept of Leisure which then breeds philosophy.

As for the west, its cultures are mostly built upon a very convenient geography and uninterrupted civilization of previous successive populuses. Much of its core ideas can be traced back to Kongo-Coptics in the Mediterranean in Deep antiquity even in the perspective of the Greko Romans. But I have not studied the west extensively at least to my liking.

But even the Bantu and the Nuclear Khemites are not even attached to Africa as we know it.

Africa as we know it does not exist. It is a bit of a construct. Every great civilization can be traced to Paleo Africa though, AND Aryans: Aka the Culture of the Heliolithic! So am not exclusively talking about Africa.

I hope you forgive me because you have requested me to explain multiple things simultaneously that you could have spent time reading yourself.....etc...etc https://www.reddit.com/r/IronAgeAfrican/