African History Extra
isaac SamuelAll about African history; narrating the continent's neglected past
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces.
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
Africans’ preference...
The History of Writing in African Languages: From Arabic to Vernacular.
Ancient Africa was a land of multiple literacies.
Near the end of the classical period in the 4th century CE, the four major ancient African writing traditions of; Demotic (in Egypt), Meroitic (Sudan), Libyco-Berber (Maghreb), and Ge’ez (E...
The Camel in African History: Ancient Ships of the Sahara
The Camel has an almost mythical place in the lore of the desert. Our modern image of the Sahara conjures up caravans of hundreds or thousands of camels, moving in long procession along the major trans-Saharan highways.
These resilient pac...
African and European Explorers in the 19th century: Competing Narratives of “Discovery.”
In 1596, the Ethiopian monk Takla ’Alfā left his home near Lake Tana, at the source of the Blue Nile, and embarked on a pilgrimage that took him through the kingdom of Sennar (present-day Sudan) and Egypt to Jerusalem.1
While passing throu...
The Luo Migrations: Reassessing “Stateless” Societies in Pre-Colonial Africa
Africa occupies a foundational place in the development of modern political anthropology. It was through studies of African societies during the 1940s and 1950s that scholars such as Evans-Pritchard and Aidan Southall first formulated influ...
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