Esteban Lucumí
@GhostofOkello
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@GhostofOkello Do you know which if any sources describe the Kingdom of Benin using oil lamps as street lights? I've heard people say they did so often that I've never really looked into the claim.
Ibn Butlan in the mid-11th century expressed such sentiments about the Zanj, so I don't think it was a talking point made by whites, but I understand the sentiment.
Reminder that the idea of black people having “special genes” that makes them “better at music” is racial pseudoscience and eugenics talking point made by white ppl to make sense of their OWN inadequacies in music & rhythm. For a kpop idol to parrot this is actually insane to me
"Decolonising" African history or whatever that is, would be the worst thing to happen to African historiography.
Nigerian barber wondering who my forebears were, cause fading my hair texture is annoying. Since boarding school & in a house party with a ghanaian chick back in international school, I have not gotten this much social studies questions due to my hair. I need to return to an Afro
Ibn Rusta's account on the Saqaliba(Slavs) gives one the idea that they practiced polygamy before they converted to christianity.
Now my interest is piqued & I am wondering if Juan de Santiago left a description of Calabar
Can't sleep, so I mashed up some images of the ruins from my 3rd best historical metropole
Niggas need to calm down. Do niggas know that potsherd pavements that were scattered throughout historical West Africa in the Inland Niger delta region, Chad Basin, Ife, Benin, Bassar, Notse etc are not wide expansive trans-regional roads?
Darfuri's sexual liberalism was just next level, especially with & among the young lot making cupid love.
The qualitative data contemporary to historical African societies do not support a great deal of the conclusions gotten from the speculative/historical theorising shit done by some economic historians on Africa.
With the amount of bead, metal & ivory jewellery they used to adorn many parts of the bodies with, I am sure in the past, one could hear a Darfuri woman coming.
very interesting that none of the fathers of the three patron saints of Katsina (Ɗan Masanih, Ɗan Marina, and Ɗan Tukum) were ‘Hausa’
I also recall that Salamone pointed out that some groups that were not "originally" Hausa became Hausa.
the Agalawa too. they ‘became’ Hausa relatively recently. the Dantata family descended from them