taken from Democracy Now.org Jan 21, 2011:
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of what is now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lumumba’s pan-Africanism and
Read more…So posting this here now because the new souped up site allows for media! Video from the Discovery Channel's 2003 documentary Nefertiti Resurrected. It was Egyptologist's Joanne Fletcher's contention that she may have found the remains of the famed 1
Read more…A feature article on the Sahelian city of Timbuktu in the Jan 2011 issue of National Geographic--part history, part investigative journalism. Thanks to Charles Saunders for the heads up!
The Salt Merchant
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There is a misconception that Africa was cut off from the world prior to European contact. Nothing could be further from the truth. Parts of Africa were very much engaged with the world. One vibrant example of that engagement was the involvement of
Read more…I actually use this film in a course on Slavery in Cinema. Students always have some "interesting" reactions. Wilmott uses some very "dark humour" to tackle issues that in the end, aren't so funny--but you find yourself laughing anyway, if only at th
Read more…Yesterday, Nov. 11th was Armistice Day around the world, first created by allied nations to commemorate the end of WWI, a time of remembrance of all those who lost their lives as well as a time to reflect on war's horrors and the hopes for peace. In
Read more…Charlemagne (L) battles Marsile (R), black "heathen" Saracen king in the Song of Roland. Grandes Chroniques de France . Bibliothèque Nationale
And Ethiope a cursed land indeed;
The blackamoors there are in his keep,
Broad in the nose they are and flat
Read more…If We Must Die, by Eric Robert Taylor, is the first work I've come across that focuses exclusively on African revolts aboard slave ships. Shipboard insurrections, as the author points out, were regular occurances and he goes on to illustrate that fa
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The Middle Passage looms large in the history of the Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora. Writers like Derrick Bell and our own Ronald Jones have touched on the theme of the slave ship, and it seems an area ripe for "imaginings." Below is a 20
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Egyptians grinding and fermenting beer
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/antibiotic-beer-nubia.html
A group of people who lived nearly 2,000 years ago in Sudanese Nubia took doses of tetracycline -- through their beer.
