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@1ncognito___ lets continue the thread with ancient cities, there's over 100 in this thread @1ncognito___

@1ncognito___ over a dozen "zimbabwe culture" sites 1ncognito___

zimbabwe minithread
@1ncognito___ more from ethiopia @1ncognito___

@1ncognito___ over 20 from the swahili

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@1ncognito___ more from nubia
@1ncognito___ more from the hausa/nigeria

@1ncognito___ westafrica
@1ncognito___ westafrica

@1ncognito___ more from westafrica

@1ncognito___ more from eritrea

@1ncognito___ for those who want a quick scroll through the thread of precolonial african cities
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isaac Samuel
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17th century (inventory date) kongo textiles Luigi Pigorini National Museum

-most of these were imported from loango or mimicked loango styles different cloths were fashioned for different classes, those reserved for the elite were't for sale and were highly ornamented and well
designed the rest were sold and the used as currency (so valuable that soldiers employed by the portuguese at the port could only accept payment in these)
the diamond patterns were derived from earlier pottery designs; in"The kingdom of Kongo : from majesty to revolt" from
"a fistful of shells", T. Green describes how the cowrie and loango's libongo cloth lost value in kongo as the portuguese brought shiploads of the shells from brazil debasing the local nzimbu shells and the libongo imports from loago in the 17th century
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isaac Samuel
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two sides of the same coin

brazil and US were trying to solve their "negro problem" one by whitewashing/branqueamento (more like assimilation than integration) and the other by segregation (exclusion)
i was reading this excellent book on portugal's colonial legacy in angola esp on its so-called egalitarian form of racial assimilation called Lusotropicalism

alot of it had to do with the gender ratio between the (white) male colonists and (white) female settlers,
basically, more (white) female settlers eliminated the need for the (white) male colonists to partner with the (non-white) female natives, reducing the mestizo popn and imposing more segregative laws on both the latter and the former

cc; Angola under the portuguese
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isaac Samuel
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bornu horsemen 1920s

#archivesxt

bornu was the one state of the "african knights" most dependent on its 50-100,000 strong cavalry, creating the first truly trans saharan empire stretching from libya to nigeria with armour typically consisting of chain-mail, steel/iron 1/2
helmets, with both men and horses fully covered in quilted cotton (lifidi) and brass swords (takoba)

primarily to protect their virtual trade monopoly in salt and natron in the sahel mined by the tubu (most were located in the desert) and re-export of leather from hausaland 2/2
also to remove the fezzani-berber intermediaries from the tunis route and fend off tuareg attacks

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