History and historical images of the Igbo and their neighbours.
Oct 10, 2018 • 38 tweets • 12 min read
A thread for innovations from the Igbo area, focusing on indigenous social structure as it relates to technology, arts and architecture.
If the iron slag at Leja actually dates to 4000 years ago, the smiths who produced this slag would have been among the earliest iron smelters in the world, this was at the time when Ancient Egyptians relied on meteors for their iron.
