My name is Ghedi which is a Somalian name meaning "traveler". My parents believed I would grow up to be traveler because my father was a curious man. It is really interesting how your parents can be really accurate on choosing a name for you because now I travel around as a merchant meeting many people and experiencing many things. I was born and raised in the Western part of Africa. The history of West Africa began with the first human settlements around 12,000 BCE. It has been commonly divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed.