isaac Samuel✓

History of the Kongo cosmogram and African Divination systems in the Americas (c. 1600-1800)

RT @sinoekruman: @rhaplord Man i really love what your are doing for Africa history ...keep going ❤️👍🏿

Tomorrow's article is about the ancient origin of Africa's mancala board games

subscribe ⤵️

RT @sinoekruman: @rhaplord You are doing great job man ...

View taken from the dock Massawa, Eritrea. La Ilustración Española y Americana, February 29, 1884 #archivesxt

Berbereh, on the coast of Africa, opposite Aden, Somalia From "Illustrated London News", 1868. #archivesxt

Zanzibar harbour, Tanzania Engraving by A. Clos, 1885 #archivesxt

Boats from the Upper Nile, Sudan. Drawing from Georg August Schweinfurth, 1874 #archivesxt

RT @Milkevol: We lost so many job opportunities in the modern world

A German pirate was captured by Africans on some islands near the coast of Guinea in the 16th century, and presented to their king, who made him a court musician

RT @DoungaJohn: Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)

RT @KaramaSeal: Calling nisbidi a proto writing because it operated on a system of idealgraohics. Is servely downplaying how it was used in a variety of different ways and how unique it is when you factor in two people who speak different verbal languages could understand it. It's only called proto writing because people don't wanna believe Africa has writing outside of forgien contact. Also shout-out to @rhaplord for his article about this writing system

RT @MelkiJRussell: For more than six centuries, the Nubian kingdom of Makuria is said to have maintained a relatively cordial relationship and the various Muslim dynasties of Egypt which was quite unique for the… @rhaplord

RT @DoungaJohn: Africa Was Not an Anarchist Paradise: Misconceptions about Precolonial State-Building in Africa

''Ja-Ja, The Deposed and Exiled King of Opobo" "The Graphic," July-December 1888. Portrait of Jaja, the oil merchant of Opobo, Nigeria. #ethnographxt Brass plaque of a palm oil tree, Benin City, Nigeria. 17th century. Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin. #randomxt

The precursor to the British multinational Unilever took over Jaja's operation ⤵️ The Oil Economies of Pre-colonial West Africa

Zulu warriors preparing for an attack, "The Graphic", February 22, 1879. "The End of Prince Louis Napoleon," son of Napoleon III, defeated by the Zulu at the Ityolyos River on 1 June 1879. South Africa #ethnographxt

**Note the firearms in the second picture Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.

Bouganiena, a Mossi town in Burkina Faso Les Annales Politiques et Littéraires, February 4, 1894 #archivesxt #historyxt

Al-Kanemi, ruler of the Bornu Empire Nigeria, Chad. coloured lithograph from "Vollständige Völkergallerie" Vol. 1 1830-1839 #ethnographxt

Archaeologists reach the original floor of Nubia’s largest cathedral in Sudan “Obłuski notes the church was bigger than the White House in Washington, D.C., and says the team plans to dig out the whole thing.”