#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
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

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
Israel–South Africa relations - Wikipedia

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

Ethiopia is the only country that was never conquered by white people.

It was because every time a white person "found" them, they were treated well but never allowed to leave.

#blackhistory #africanhistory #blackmastodon