Kolokol pillar site in Turkana, Kenya. www.patreon.com/posts/ancien...

The megaliths of Wassu (Gambia) and Wanar (Senegal). www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-ancien...

Stone monuments in the Adrar region of Mauritania. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-ancien...

A number of these, including the Stone Circles of Senegambia in Senegal and Gambia, have been recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites.

The ancient Megalith builders of Africa www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-ancien...

The most unlikely degrowthers: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...

The EU spending €12m on a hydroelectric power station to power bitcoin mining in a Congolese nature reserve run by a Belgian aristocrat could not be more bizarre. Great work by @oli4vb.bsky.social: www.ftm.eu/articles/bit...

Interesting trivia: These Barges had the same tonnage as 15th-century Portuguese ships (caravels) which reached the Atlantic coast of West Africa and the Americas Claims that Africa lacked navigable waterways are mostly nonsense

Mosque of al-Hajj Umar in Segu, Mali. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

Fortresses in 19th-century Mali built by the empires of Segu and Tukulor www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

Freight canoe/barge at Kabara, the port of Timbuktu, Mali. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

The walled town of San, Mali. ca. 1930-1939. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

Nyamina, Mali, in the 19th century www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

Segu in the 19th century www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

“The Bambara kings at Segu controlled a string of towns between Bamako and Timbuktu, populated by Marka traders and Somono boatmen. The historical fluidity of social boundaries in Segu reveals the ambiguity of ethnic identities in pre-colonial Africa.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

The empire of Segu (1712-1861): ethnic ambiguity in a pre-colonial African state www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...

Tomorrow's article is about the social history of the Segu empire

Moroni, Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 1948 #archivesxt

São Salvador (M'banza-Kongo), Capital of the kingdom of Kongo, Angola. detail of a 1683 engraving by Alain Manesson Mallet #historyxt

Zaria mosque, Nigeria. early 20th century. #archivesxt

Hausa architecture in Zinder, Niger. early 20th cent #archivesxt

Depiction of Baga rice cultivation in Guinea Cornaky, ca. 1793 www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...

Cotton was domesticated in Sudan www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...

2000-year-old Meroitic rock art depicting Prince Shorakaror receiving a bundle of Sorghum and defeated foes from a solar deity. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...

Stacks of yam tied in an Igbo yam barn, Nigeria. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...

“Africa contributed many crops to the global cornucopia, beginning with the transfer of African cereals to Asia during the 2nd millennium BC, and continuing into the Columbian exchange, when several African crops spread across the Americas and Europe” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...

"The young Earth was not hellish, and, crucially, life formed quickly after the planet solidified – perhaps astonishingly quickly. It may be that the first life emerged within just millions of years of the planet’s origin." aeon.co/essays/life-...

The portrait of Zaga Christ is at the amam.oberlin.edu Allen Museum in Oberlin, Ohio (my hometown)!!!

saw this in Baltimore! it's something.

Map of Sägga Krәstos’s journey from Egypt to France ca. 1632-1638 www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...

Portrait of Sägga Krәstos, an Ethiopian in France, ca 1635. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...

Portrait of William Ansah Sessarakoo, son of Eno Baisie Kurentsi (King John Currantee) of Anomabu, Ghana. 1749. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...

16th-century painting showing an African knight of the order of Saint James of the Sword. Chafariz d’el Rey (The King’s Fountain) painting in the Alfama District, ca. 1560-1580, Lisbon. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...

A partial representation of the locations of black people in Britain between 1500 and 1677, as indicated by documentary citations. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...

“In 2022, archaeologists working on a cluster of early medieval cemeteries near the southern coast of England found the remains of two individuals with West African ancestry whose burials were dated to the 7th century.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...

Investigating Africa's historic links with the Old World: ancient DNA and autobiographical evidence from England. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...

Chasing English debtors: the travel account of a West African trader in 19th-century England www.patreon.com/posts/138826...

Tomorrow's Patreon article is on a 19th-century West African trader chasing an English debtor, and examining Africa's ancient links

ruins of Kilwa kisiwani, Tanzania ca. 1910 #archivesxt

walled town of Brava (Barawa), Somalia early 20th century #archivesxt

Fascinating.

Benin city, Nigeria ca. 1897 #archivesxt

walls of Katsina, Nigeria ca. 1903 #archivesxt

Very cool thread

900-year-old coins from Kilwa (Tanzania) that were found in northern Australia www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/africans-i...

People in northern Australia using coins minted in East Africa is a genuinely incredible historical detail.

“In 1944, a soldier on Australia’s most remote northern coastline discovered a handful of copper coins that were originally minted in the medieval Swahili city of Kilwa, Tanzania, between 1150 and 1330 CE.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/africans-i...

UNESCO adds the Diy-Gid-Biy stone ruins of Cameroon to the World Heritage List www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Estimates of ancient GDP are most likely nonsense, and it's probably a waste of time trying to calculate them asteriskmag.com/issues/11/gd...

They paved an entire city -about 12 km2, with neatly laid stones and potsherds in one of Africa's most humid regions It must have taken a lot of labour to construct and maintain (leveling the ground and probably cutting drainage channels between the impluvium courtyards)