16/01/2024
Iftah al Kutub - open the books
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An research project exploring the written non-religious legacy of the Timbuktu Manuscripts. #Materiality #Materialculture #Culturedress #Traditionaldress #Research Also researching Indigenous culture dresses.
16/01/2024
16/01/2024
Hausa Men sewing the "Alawayyo" material on the "singer" sewing machines in Zaria..
Date: 1920-30s
We now have a new Instagram page for the young generation to also follow historical stories. Follow here. https://www.instagram.com/mayowa_blades?igsh=d2d4bWtscmszMGh0
05/11/2023
An Igbo woman works at her loom in a traditional weaving establishment, Aba, Nigeria. Tortoise designs can be seen on the cloth. 1945-1975. Photo: IWM.
19/09/2023
In Memory of Chinua Achebe, Bard College to Host Celebration of Contemporary African Writing on September 22 On Friday, September 22, Bard College is hosting After Chinua Achebe: African Writing and the Future, an event honoring the memory of the late Chinua Achebe (1930–2013), former Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature. A symposium in the afternoon in Weis Cinema at the Bertel...
19/09/2023
The traditional attire worn by the women from Madagascar 🇲🇬
19/09/2023
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11/12/2022
Using the app, IWeaveIt it, we were able to digitise some of the patterns.
Looks familiar?
05/12/2022
Belgian Auction House Cancels Auction Of African Skulls After Public Outcry - BlackCultureNews.com An auction house in Belgium was forced to cancel the sale of three skulls of Africans killed during the colonial period in what is now the modern Democratic Republic of Congo, the BBC reported on Thursday. The skulls, which belonged to people killed between January 1893 and May 1894, were put up for...
19/11/2022
A traditional African veil.
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