African History & Culture

[image] Nigeria’s first president played college football in West Virginia with Black Americans. Our histories are connected. You cannot divide us no matter how hard you try.

[image] Old world Neolithic diffusion(Aberkane 2022,Aumassip 1997,Guilaine 2011)

[video] Histoire, culture et civilisation Africaines.

[image] Asanwa Akstudien [German: artistic study of a person]. Cross River-Cameroons area. Alfred Mansfeld, 1908.

[image] Tombouctou, Mali.

[image] Taking a dip Picture of a group of Igbo boys bathing on the Imo river, near Aba. William Fagg, 28 February 1946.

[image] I open X and I see that the Grassfields of Cameroon 🇨🇲 is going viral for our traditional architecture🛖! I’m so proud of my people for preserving these structures despite colonialism and modernization! ✊🏾 Once again, 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈 is GREAT 🇨🇲🔥 Here’s the interior: #Cameroon

[image] Bimtuku, Ghana, 1890.

[image] * Kidòw, the late Neolithic era of the Green Sahara is collapsing. Artistic interpretation of the drawing first found by Henri Lhote. THE SEARCH FOR THE TASSILI FRESCOES, 1959

[image] Vodun is for the children too.

[image] Did you know about them yet? The Tin-Abanher school of the Sefar area in the Tassili. As rains greened the Sahara during the Neolithic period, its inhabitants were far ahead of the rest of the world not only in the technical field (animal husbandry, ceramics) but also in the

[image] The crocodile and the fish, a Benin 15th/ 16th century brass plaque crafted by the Igun bronze smiths, one of the artistic guild in Benin Kingdom. #edopeople #edohistory

[image] [The king of] Ghana is the wealthiest king on the face of the earth because of his treasures and stocks of gold extracted in olden times for his predecessors and himself.

[image] “At least 50 Maroon (self-liberated) communities existed from 1672–1864 in the mountains, forests, and swamps of South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.” 👳🏾‍♂️⚔️🌊

[video] I made a comparison between Underground Railroad symbols and Nsibidi/Igbo Ukara cloth last year on my SoulPeopleRoots page. The Ekpe (Leopard 🐆) fraternity from Nigeria/Cameroon played a key role in Maroonage (escape) during the 1700-1800s in the US.

[image] Black is beauty

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[image] The most famous revolt against colonial occupation in Tanzania AKA Tanganyika, is the Maji Maji Rebellion (1905–1907). It is particularly famous because of a religious war medicine concocted by an African medicine man known as Kinjikitile Ngwale. Ngwale led many fighters to

[image] What was the linguistic landscape before the 16th century? Explore it with this simplified map of the different language families that inhabited the area before the dawn of the Mani invasions (nowadays Mende). The spatial distribution is based on Bühnen (1992) and Fields(2004)

[image] There’s between 240-260 Bantu place names in the United States because of African-Americans’ heritage. That’s not to mention place names from other African languages our ancestors spoke.

[image] Left image:Maasai man in Serengeti, Tanzania (July 2004) photographed by British Tim Graham & Robert Harding. Right image: Maasai girl braiding a Maasai man hair in Amboseli National park, Kenya (October 4th, 2011) photographed by South African Martin Harvey.

[image] If you were to put the state of Mississippi inside of Mali in West Africa, it would sound like Boubacar Traoré.

[image] The Arusha or WaArusha in Swahili are an EA Bantu ethnic group indigenous to Mount Meru slopes, Arusha district, & Arusha city & Arusha region in Tanzania. The Maasai claim that the Arusha are descendants of them, who came from a Maasai group from Kenya in the 18th

[image] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Dar is the largest city, financial hub, & main port of Tanzania, located on the Indian Ocean coast. Dar was named Dar es Salaam by the Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar in 1865/1866, which is Arabic for Abode of Peace, The city is home to over 7 Million

[image] The Digo or WaDigo in Swahili are an EA Bantu speaking ethnic group based in Kenya & Tanzania. The WaDigo are based in Southern Kenya, & Northern Tanzania, found in cities like Mombasa, & Tanga. They are native to Tanga in Tanzania, which is considered one of the most influential

[image] Igbo people’s Mgborogwu na Mkpaakwukwo/Obia and African-American people’s Rootwork are related practices.

[image] Bronze Yorùbá Ifẹ̀ head. $1500 🏷️

[image] Hehe Culture - pt. 4 - Traditional WaHehe homes were called Tembe rectangular houses built with mud/clay walls, timber and low, earth-covered roofs. They were designed for the cool Iringa highlands and could include separate spaces for cooking, sleeping, storage and livestock.