jari
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Post by jari on Feb 4, 2012 20:30:43 GMT -5
Here is a link to my blog for those interested, I was in the works of blogging on the Western Sudan History but I descided to wait until I had some more sources, so I went ahead and began with the history of the Swahili theyounghistorian7.blogspot.com/ |
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Post by anansi on Feb 4, 2012 22:16:59 GMT -5
Nice work jeri keep it up.  I like this maybe you should use this as an Avater here.  |
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Post by jari on Feb 4, 2012 23:10:55 GMT -5
Thanks Brada, Im going to try to update the blog at least once a Month/Week, Im trying to Archive old E.S topics and transfer them into a more scholarly and readable format as well as uploading Images from Books and across the net. Ive been busy lately looking for a Job, School and other stuff..so My blog is a little scant right now, but Im coming..
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Post by sundiata on Feb 6, 2012 20:57:48 GMT -5
^Nice break down on the historiography of Swahili studies. This has definitely been an issue and even though archaeologists have overturned the colonial paradigm ages ago, many historians are slow to follow suit. Jeffrey Fleisher and Stephanie Wynne-Jones recently submitted an article further discussing it in the African Archaeological Review. www.springerlink.com/content/06631544380n6627/ |
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Post by jari on Feb 7, 2012 9:32:41 GMT -5
Thanks Sundjaita, yeah Im still amazed at how the Swahili states are ignored even by Afrocentrics who obsess over Al-Andalus, when the Swahili States were comparable to Al-Andalus. ^Nice break down on the historiography of Swahili studies. This has definitely been an issue and even though archaeologists have overturned the colonial paradigm ages ago, many historians are slow to follow suit. Jeffrey Fleisher and Stephanie Wynne-Jones recently submitted an article further discussing it in the African Archaeological Review. www.springerlink.com/content/06631544380n6627/ |
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Post by anansi on Feb 7, 2012 11:03:45 GMT -5
Thanks Sundjaita, yeah Im still amazed at how the Swahili states are ignored even by Afrocentrics who obsess over Al-Andalus, when the Swahili States were comparable to Al-Andalus. ^Nice break down on the historiography of Swahili studies. This has definitely been an issue and even though archaeologists have overturned the colonial paradigm ages ago, many historians are slow to follow suit. Jeffrey Fleisher and Stephanie Wynne-Jones recently submitted an article further discussing it in the African Archaeological Review. www.springerlink.com/content/06631544380n6627/While I understand wanting to correct the history on Iberia, I think many simply wanted that White vs Black dynamic, especially for reasons of comparability, it sometimes came in the form of a pissing contest. |
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Post by zarahan on Feb 9, 2012 10:17:42 GMT -5
good work Jari.
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