Mastodawn

The forgotten #African #soldiers of #WorldWarII: #Courage, #sacrifice, and untold #history
The legacy of African soldiers in World War II is not just a footnote; it is a testament to resilience, courage, and the human cost of a war that reshaped the world.
#AfricanHistory #WWII #HiddenHistory #ColonialTroops #WarStories #GlobalHistory #UnsungHeroes
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-forgotten-african-soldiers-of-world.html

Magnus Idode 5d ago

The legendary Queen Idia 👑
A symbol of strength, wisdom, and the power of the Benin Kingdom. Her legacy still speaks through history and art 🎭

#BeninKingdom #QueenIdia #AfricanHistory #Culture #Heritage #Art

ESEH Apr 2

#jobKlaxon: Doctoral Researcher in Digital Environmental History of Africa

3-year position at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)

https://www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doctoral-researcher-in-digital-environmental-history-of-africa

#envhist #AfricanHistory #digitalHistory #dighist #phd

Doctoral Researcher in Digital Environmental History of Africa

UNI EN

A mixture of periodicals Apr 1

Priti Patel and the Double Standards Behind #Britain’s Response to Black Lives Matter
Priti Patel’s stance on Black Lives Matter exposes deeper questions about racism, colonial history, and Britain’s moral responsibility to Africa.
#PritiPatel #BlackLivesMatter #UKPolitics #BritishGovernment, #RacismInBritain #ColonialHistory #AfricanHistory #HumanRights #SocialJustice #TruthTelling #AntiRacism
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2020/06/priti-patel-how-sincere-is-british.html

Anthropology.net Mar 31

A 2,400-year-old iron smelting workshop in Senegal ran for nearly 800 years and barely changed its technique throughout. New research reveals what that kind of continuity looks like in the ground. #Archaeology #AfricanHistory #Archaeometallurgy

https://www.anthropology.net/p/eight-centuries-at-the-furnace-a

Eight Centuries at the Furnace: A West African Iron Workshop That Refused to Change

New excavations at a 2,400-year-old smelting site in Senegal reveal a metallurgical tradition that held steady for nearly eight hundred years.

Anthropology.net

Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Mar 28

"But from 1967 onwards, Israel deepened relations with the apartheid South African regime"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–South_Africa_relations

IOF = isntraeli occupation forces

[South Africa] helped Israel get nuclear weapons
https://www.indiatoday.in/history-of-it/story/south-africa-country-junked-nuclear-weapons-helped-non-proliferation-treaty-ben-gurion-nehru-golda-meir-iran-2746849-2025-06-27

#africanhistory #middleeast #wmd #palestine #blackmastodon

Israel–South Africa relations - Wikipedia

Cpaphil Mar 28

VINTAGE POSTCARD Negre Black Man Senegalese Village Carries Toucouleurs Shirt www.cpaphil.com/en/p... #VintagePostcard #SenegaleseVillage #BlackHeritage #ToucouleursCulture #AfricanHistory #VintageAfrica #ColonialPostcard #TraditionalDress #SenegalMemories

Cpaphil Mar 28

VINTAGE POSTCARD Negre Black Man Senegalese Village Carries Toucouleurs Shirt

https://www.cpaphil.com/en/products/vintage-postcard-negre-black-man-senegalese-village-carries-toucouleurs-shirt

#VintagePostcard #SenegaleseVillage #BlackHeritage #ToucouleursCulture #AfricanHistory #VintageAfrica #ColonialPostcard #TraditionalDress #SenegalMemories

Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏Mar 24

No one ever expects an umbrella to be adorned with jawbones, do they? (Or maybe, just maybe, accuracy wasn't the main goal for this book.)

<<The Jaw Umbrella, Gelelé's Stool, Guns, Sticks, Swords, etc.>>
Illustration from the 1874 European book "Dahomey as it is; Being A Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in that Country with a full account of the notorious annual customs, and the social and religious institutions of the Ffons"

Yale University Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36729854

#libraries #umbrella #dahomey #Benin #africanhistory #WestAfrica #history #weird