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Bouna, ivory Coast
capital of the 17th cent. bouna kingdom, it was a scholary centre linked with gonja, bondouku and wa (in this thread) and home to a soninke gold trading diaspora that extended to ancient cities of jenne and begho
-Old Mosque: first built in 1795/6
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capital of the 17th cent. bouna kingdom, it was a scholary centre linked with gonja, bondouku and wa (in this thread) and home to a soninke gold trading diaspora that extended to ancient cities of jenne and begho
-Old Mosque: first built in 1795/6
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Bouna was first mentioned by al-siddiq of timbuktu in the 18th cent. then Henry Barth called it "place of great celebrity for its learning and its schools"
It was conquered by asante empire in late 18th cent., rebelled in 1801, sacked by samori in 1896
Wa
It was conquered by asante empire in late 18th cent., rebelled in 1801, sacked by samori in 1896
Wa
Reading...
A. Massing's;
The imams of gonja
jstor.org/stable/4144603…
And
The wangara, an old soninke diaspora in West Africa
jstor.org/stable/4393041…
See "Juula" in
History of islam in Africa
N. Levtzion
books.google.com/books/about/Th…
Wa and the Wala
I. Wilks
books.google.com/books/about/Wa…
A. Massing's;
The imams of gonja
jstor.org/stable/4144603…
And
The wangara, an old soninke diaspora in West Africa
jstor.org/stable/4393041…
See "Juula" in
History of islam in Africa
N. Levtzion
books.google.com/books/about/Th…
Wa and the Wala
I. Wilks
books.google.com/books/about/Wa…
kano, old town
Walter Mittelholzer 1930
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the tenth century hausa city grew in the 15/16th century under songhai till it became the commercial capital of west africa in the 19th century
surrounded by a 30ft high wall <like zinder's>, the city ... 1/3
Walter Mittelholzer 1930
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the tenth century hausa city grew in the 15/16th century under songhai till it became the commercial capital of west africa in the 19th century
surrounded by a 30ft high wall <like zinder's>, the city ... 1/3
imported textiles (yoruba), linen (egypt), kola nuts (asante), gunpowder and paper (europeans), exporting everything from leather products < like sandals, saddles, book covers, the so-called moroccan leather> to dyed cloths, swords and other weaponry
supplanting trade rivals 2/3
supplanting trade rivals 2/3
katsina and timbuktu
reading;
Government in Kano, 1350-1950
Michael Garfield Smith
books.google.co.ug/books/about/Go…
Economic history of West Africa
Gabriel Ogundeji Ogunremi, E. K. Faluyi
books.google.co.ug/books/about/Ec…
travels of
Heinrich Barth, Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney
reading;
Government in Kano, 1350-1950
Michael Garfield Smith
books.google.co.ug/books/about/Go…
Economic history of West Africa
Gabriel Ogundeji Ogunremi, E. K. Faluyi
books.google.co.ug/books/about/Ec…
travels of
Heinrich Barth, Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney
17th cent. Fasilides' pool
a large rectangular bath built about the same time as Fasilides castle by the same gondarine emperor in the fortified royal city of gondar whose architecture is late axumite-mughal blend
now used mostly for the annual timket celebration
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a large rectangular bath built about the same time as Fasilides castle by the same gondarine emperor in the fortified royal city of gondar whose architecture is late axumite-mughal blend
now used mostly for the annual timket celebration
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The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557–1632)
Victor M. Fernández, Jorge De Torres, Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, Carlos Cañete
books.google.co.ug/books?id=LtMuD…
The Ethiopian Borderlands:
Richard Pankhurst,
books.google.co.ug/books?id=zpYBD…
Victor M. Fernández, Jorge De Torres, Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, Carlos Cañete
books.google.co.ug/books?id=LtMuD…
The Ethiopian Borderlands:
Richard Pankhurst,
books.google.co.ug/books?id=zpYBD…
a few churches from the tigray region of the late & post aksumite era <after 800CE>
see interiors in next tweet
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wukro chirkos
Mikael Imba
Abreha we Atsehba
Maryam korkor
many contain paintings from the 13th century-
some were damaged during the abyssinia-adal wars
see interiors in next tweet
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wukro chirkos
Mikael Imba
Abreha we Atsehba
Maryam korkor
many contain paintings from the 13th century-
some were damaged during the abyssinia-adal wars
