Dr. Jose Nafafe (Univ of Bristol) will be in the US in Nov '23 talking at Princeton, BU, & MSU about Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, a 17thC Black African abolitionist who brought a lawsuit before the papal court to end slavery. Dr. Nafafe hopes to make new connections and bring his talk to additional locations. If you're able to help schedule something, I hope you'll reach out to him.
#histodons #BlackHistory #AfricanHistory #BlackMastodon
https://amzn.to/45AmX2w

Africa, the Center of History: In Born in Blackness, Howard French works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/africa-the-center-of-history-born-in-blackness-howard-w-french/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/africa-the-center-of-history-born-in-blackness-howard-w-french/ #history #Africa #Africanhistory #worldhistory

Two new books came in the mail! Both of them were shipped from Sweden, since I could not find copies for sale in the US. #africanhistory #tanzania

#AfricanHistory #histodons , help gratefully appreciated. Tl;dr I'm working on a first pass at learning a few things about Medieval Mali social organization. Reading a Gale Database source that talks about "clans" in society. Says clans often had an assigned/traditional occupation. I can't do more research using "clan" so I'm guessing that's not a standard term. Can anyone point me to some more useful terminology (ad even sources?!?!?) for these , maybe, occupational social groups ?????

Ibn Khaldun pointed out the whiteness-as-default attitude prevalent in Europe, 700 years ago:

"The inhabitants of the north are not called by their color, because the people who established the conventional meanings of words were themselves white. Thus, whiteness was something usual and common to them, and they did not see anything sufficiently remarkable in it to cause them to use it as a specific term."

#Racism #WhitePeople #Europe #EuropeanHistory #AfricanHistory #Colonialism

How does one #Decolonize a curriculum at an educational institution whose mission has been distorted by Western colonizing forces?

One group of students at the Makerere Institute of Social Research in #Uganda read the #Muqaddimah by #IbnKhaldun as a way to start answering that question.

You won't be surprised that Wiley wants 10 USD for you to be able to read this article over a 48 hour period, but as a one-off I think it's worth it.

#Africa #Islam #AfricanHistory #Historiography #Anticolonialism

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.12148

A great article on the history of the deep ties between Tanzania and South Africa in the struggle against apartheid and the genesis of the Organisation of African Unity.
#Tanzania #SouthAfrica #OAU #BlackHistory #AfricanHistory #Apartheid #Nyerere

https://theconversation.com/tanzania-south-africa-deep-ties-evoke-africas-sacrifices-for-freedom-202448

#OnThisDay, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region.

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #AfricanHistory #Histodons

https://carvehername.org.uk/yaa-asantewaa/

(2/3) The whole situation was bizarre...Condescending (You know, *apparently, they didn't have photography back in early Feudal Japan 😅).

And just makes me think of how ingrained the need to control , manipulative and whitesplain, African history is; Especially when those stories don't fit the dominant narrative.

And how strong those forces can be in manipulating education and self awareness.

#African #History #BlackHistory #Education #AfricanHistory

Black Resistance Movements: 1630 B.C. in Antiquity - 2023 - Queen Nzinga, Ida B Wells | Michael Imhotep

https://www.youtube.com/live/-z4L2S2I-6Y?feature=share

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #History #Africa #AfricanHistory #Resistance #BlackMastodon

#AcademicJob

Charles E. Scheidt #PostDoc Fellowship in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

@ Binghamton University & State University of New York

Subject Fields:
#Holocaust
#Genocide
#MemoryStudies
#AfricanHistory
#AfricanStudies
#Anthropology
#AreaStudies

Deadline: 01/03/2023

https://networks.h-net.org/node/15531/discussions/12399955/featured-job-charles-e-scheidt-post-doctoral-fellowship-genocide

Today I learned about Ibn Battuta, the most important explorer you've never heard of.

Starting in modern #Morocco
"He travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, totalling around 117,000 km (73,000 mi), surpassing Zheng He with about 50,000 km (31,000 mi) and Marco Polo with 24,000 km (15,000 mi)" #AfricanHistory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta

#JazzAlbumOfTheWeek
Mark Lomax, II & The Urban Art Ensemble (2020)

Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B083HND1WY?ref=dm_sh_lUCVTzbp4KImbqKaduNRTgd9l

Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-400-years-suite/1493722972

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0RPsoyCJnhlGL2bYl2z381

YouTube Music
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWFdLkSyQZ-PO1Z0AkSryimxlCeWNPPkE&feature=share

#Jazz #JazzMusic #Music #Percussion #Drum #Drums #DrumSet #AfricanHistory #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

@jazz

#BlackHistoryMonth #AfricanHistory The Griot
Oral History #blackmastodon
https://youtu.be/jdxKQkcCtpQ
Oral History

Haile Selassie refused to speak the colonizer tongue #blackhistory #africanhistory #blackjoy #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfriday

Some people have an interest in learning about other Black folks across the Diaspora, but don't know where to start.

If you are looking to expand your knowledge of #BlackHistory to beyond the countries you live, #BlackWomenRadicals
is a great source of jumping off points.

Caribbean Feminism: A Reading List
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/caribbean-feminisms-a-reading-list

#BlackMastodon #AfricanHistory #CaribbeanHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanHistory

The History of Ancient Nubia | The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits/history-ancient-nubiaOLD

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AfricanHistory

Kemet as Black African Civilization and Multiracial Society | by Joseph Kamanda Kimona-Mbinga | Medium

https://medium.com/@josephkamandakimonambinga/kemet-as-black-african-civilization-and-multiracial-society-cc0cf22e8dde

#ajami #africanwritingsystem #literacy #Africanhistory
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/?fbclid=IwAR2ysYH3r1xuqNJO7CExnWnH__PyjMu4x1IIRl_4BgfLsfQXPYEiDSnu05s

#blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #AfricanHistory #blackheros
Patrice Lumumba,was a Congolese politician and Independence leader.First elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.From June to September 1960.and the leader of the Congolese National Movement from 1958 until his execution or his murder in January,1961.Thats the way I see it,The Congo is full of natural resources
Belgian colonization of the Congo began in 1885 when King Leopold 2 founded and ruled the Congo