How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa thetricontinental.org/dossier-how-...
The Pre-Islamic Matriarchs of North Africa www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
Monument to Queen Dihya (Kahina) Baghai, Algeria. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
Gold jewellery from a burial of an elite woman, 13th-14th century, Durbi Takusheyi, Katsina, Nigeria. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
Queen Njinga with captured missionaries, late 17th-century illustration www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
Queen Amanitore of Kush smiting her enemies. Temple of Naqa, 1st century CE, Sudan. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
Ancient African Matriarchies: Between Myth and History www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
-Tin Hanan and the Matrilineal systems of the Central Sahara. -Historical accounts of Matrilineal systems and the status of women in Southern Berber-speaking communities. -Epilogue: Berber Matriarchies between Myth and History. References www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
The Pre-Islamic Matriarchs of North Africa and the Matrilineal Systems of the Central Sahara. www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
**trivia The largest West African barges could carry about as much cargo as Portuguese caravels of the 15th/16th century (60-90 tons) Like the ones used by Christopher Columbus The claim that Africa lacked navigable waterways is mostly nonsense
Honoured to have Ron Eglash review my brief essay on his work about African Fractal Geometry It's always important to recognise the diversity of African societies, which can, in some places, resemble those found across Europe and Asia, and in other places be completely different.
Kilwa Kisiwani, Makutani 18th-Century Building Tanzania -BIEA #historyxt #archivesxt
Serpentine statue of Harwa squatting and offering figures of Isis and Hathor; cartouche of Amenirdis I (sister of Piye) incised between. 25th dynasty, Egypt -British Museum #randomxt
Mukudj (mask) Punu artist Gabon mid-19th–mid-20th century Metropolitan Museum #randomxt
Boolebany, capital of Bondoo (Futa Bundu, Senegal) c. 1825 William Gray #archivesxt
The first monumental tombs and pyramids The oldest ancient Egyptian mastaba, Tell el-Farkha, c. 3300–3200 BC Mastaba S3038, Saqqara (c. 2700 BC) Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara (c. 2630-2611 BC) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/pre-dynast...
Clay figure, Asyut, Naqada I period, c. 4000 BC, Qustul incense burner. Lower Nubia, c. 3200 BC. The Two Dog Palette, late 4th millennium BC The Narmer Palette, late 4th millennium BC www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/pre-dynast...
Pre-Dynastic Egypt and the Origins of the World's First State. The Neolithic period in North-Eastern Africa www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/pre-dynast...
Probably not for long They had a big cross on their foreheads and apparently established diplomatic relationships with them as soon as it was politically expedient (during the Ayyubid and early Mamluk period)
My old essay on African travellers in the ancient and medieval world begins with the story of a Nubian king (from Sudan) in Constantinople at the start of the 4th crusade He had come from Jerusalem and was continuing to Spain newlinesmag.com/essays/did-e...
There was an intense interest in Ethiopian biblical texts among Western theologians during the 16th-century Reformation But that died out after a while; I think the more productive interest can be found among (secular) philologists and linguists www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
Reminds me of this almost throwaway line in Ibn Batutta's 14th-century travelogue about a jurist from Mogadishu, whom he met in India, and who had travelled as far as China
It's interesting to read how astonished explorers were to find that the Africans they encountered were equally well-travelled Barth in 1850 met Africans in Bagirmi (Chad) who had visited Basra (Iraq), kept the works of Plato, and were as inquisitive about Europe as he was about Africa
There was a great effort in the 60s and 70s to translate a handful of the popular manuscripts (mostly chronicles, for obvious reasons), but the bulk of the manuscripts are locked away in metal cases where they are quickly disintegrating bsky.app/profile/rhap...
*not-so-fun fact There is still no authoritative translation of the Ethiopian bible, more than 500 years after the outside world learned about it So it will be long before we get any translations of the hundreds of thousands of African manuscripts discovered in the last 30 yrs