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“Upto 90% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s material cultural legacy is kept in Western museums and private collections outside of the continent. In the absence of written sources, this material constitutes the principal historical source of many societies.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-pictoria...

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A Pictorial History of Africa: Insights from Ancient Figurative Art. While travelling through West Africa between 1908 and 1910, the German ethnographer Leo Frobenius visited the city of Ife (in S.W Nigeria), where he had heard accounts of a remarkable statue of the se... https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-pictorial-history-of-africa-insights

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