#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
#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
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
"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
VINTAGE POSTCARD Negre Black Man Senegalese Village Carries Toucouleurs Shirt
#VintagePostcard #SenegaleseVillage #BlackHeritage #ToucouleursCulture #AfricanHistory #VintageAfrica #ColonialPostcard #TraditionalDress #SenegalMemories
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.