He said stone cities. Of course they had a few stone buildings but civilizations in West and Central Africa for the most part used mudbrick and adobe as building material. Nothing equivalent to the stone cities of the Somali and Swahili coast.Stone buildings and trade centers existed in Ghana,Mali, Benin, Songhai in West Africa
The only one of its kind in Ethiopia, and I would argue its really Tigrayan/Eritrean since that country is host to all the rest of the Aksumite Empire's stone cities.Axum
A few castles doesn't make a settlement a stone city. It was just another hut filled settlement but the emperors actually live in castles instead of tents.Gondar
He wasn't. While West African cities boasted denser urbanization, they were not proper stone cities and Ethiopia literally only has one to its name (arguable) until the 20th century.So you are wrong
The era that saw the rise of Somalia's greatest cities and militaries and the peak of its economic and cultural influence can't be considered a golden age?Again there is no Golden Age