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Post by anansi on Oct 22, 2022 6:31:09 GMT -5
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Post by anansi on Sept 21, 2022 7:21:17 GMT -5
I saw a bootleg version of it as its not out in Japan, my take ? it was pretty damned good, some try to dull its shine by complaining about accuracy , when it never claimed be, It said Based On True Events, not that it was supposed to be a documentary or bio pic, they didn’t pull any punches about the role they played in the human trafficking and shortsightedness, while the Women were strong , it didn’t make the males characters weak, it was well balanced and nuanced imo, now some brothers are bothered about the dominant female characters , and see this an attack on Black male dignity , they look at flicks like Black Panther and I guess a few others? ..so they joined with WhiteSupremacist trying to drive down viewership, this is not helpful , if they want more strong Black male characters then support movies when they do show up, Black women will throw their support behind things they see as representative of them, a lot of us seem to just complain about their clout and success. As for the White Supremacist well when have they not try and stop Black folks from shining. What say you good people.
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Post by anansi on Sept 20, 2022 7:38:37 GMT -5
Wow❗️an example of when necessity becomes the mother of invention, how sad that is was what this bright young man had to spent his brain power on.
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Post by anansi on Sept 7, 2022 19:44:45 GMT -5
Hello good people pls pls view this very informative vid lecture by educator Robin Walker , the recreations by Polish archaeologist of Christian Nubian monasteries and homes is stunning the palaces of West Africa some of which we showcased on Let’s Discuss Ancient and Medieval Africa and other spaces, but those pics simply don’t do it justice especially when dealing with the amount of space, rooms and functionality , pls take some down time it’s about 1:40:00.
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Post by anansi on Sept 5, 2022 5:17:55 GMT -5
Was gonna post this but you got it sir, great stuff.
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Post by anansi on Sept 1, 2022 23:24:10 GMT -5
This is a must, if one want to dig deep into the Africanity of Ancient Egypt, not for the kind of folks who don’t like to read or rely on picture spam without context trying to gaslight you, they ignore what folks in the field have to say , it’s not enough to spam and compare random Egyptians today with those of yesterday anyone can do that, is not difficult what maybe difficult for some is actual reading and doing cross references, but this is known for a very long time, I have more up to dated studies to this effect, but this is so good it should never be forgotten. The Peopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of Meroitic script; proceedings Conference: Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script, Cairo, 1974 [14] Introduction. The Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script1 was held in two stages: the first took place from 28 to 31 January 1974 and concerned the peopling of ancient Egypt; the second dealt with the deciphering of Meroitic script and took place from 1 to 3 February 1974. The meeting opened with an address by Dr Gamal Mokhtar, Under-Secretary of State, Egyptian Ministry of Culture, who was followed by Mr Maurice Glélé, speaking on behalf of the Director-General of Unesco. Mr Glélé emphasized the important place occupied by Egypt in the project for the General History of Africa, by virtue both of Egypt's historic and cultural ties with the rest of Africa and of the fact that Dr Mokhtar was a member of the International Scientific Committee responsible for the scientific supervision of the drafting, and the editor of Volume II. Mr Glélé reminded the meeting that Unesco 's aim in the project was to present a new picture of the history of the peoples and of the continent of Africa through the use of new methods of approach, analysis and interpretation. The members of the International Scientific Committee had thought it necessary to convene a symposium on the peopling of ancient Egypt to bring together a number of specialists of world repute from different countries. The purpose of this was to review the knowledge at present available about the ethnic origins and anthropological relationships of populations and about the cultural ties between Egypt and the rest of Africa. The participants, as scholars, were invited to clarify and establish the facts, providing rigorous scientific supporting evidence; to approach the questions put before them calmly and with an unwavering regard for scientific truth; and to adopt the genuinely scientific attitude of open-minded inquirers, prepared to countenance the possibility of having been wrong, or simply uncertain of the facts. The symposium elected the following officers: Dr Mokhtar (Egypt), chairman; Professor Théophile Obenga (Congo), vice-chairman; Professor Jean Dévisse (France), rapporteur. 1. The list of participants is given in Appendix 2, p. 133 unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000032875
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Post by anansi on Aug 31, 2022 0:17:22 GMT -5
Hi good people , I just discovered this masterfully crafted video , of the origins of ancient Kmt, somehow I was prepared to be annoyed but it was cleverly done and in one out of step of what is known pls take the time to view, basically it’s a collection of clips from various documentaries stitched together, but what do you think.
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Post by anansi on Aug 21, 2022 9:31:46 GMT -5
To be clear you are talking about the folks of the Jos plateau right?
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Post by anansi on Jul 17, 2022 1:39:53 GMT -5
looking fwd to see this new flik , I hope it live up to my expectations Jabri's review and the trailer.
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Post by anansi on Jul 11, 2022 3:33:28 GMT -5
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Post by anansi on Jul 4, 2022 9:56:00 GMT -5
Archeologist Charles Bonnet updated the finds in Nile valley complex which includes Egypt and other interactions from as far away as Dafur and South Sudan, the unique architecture of Doukki Gel
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Post by anansi on Jun 28, 2022 6:36:17 GMT -5
Saw that some time ago pretty good .
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Post by anansi on May 31, 2022 12:14:33 GMT -5
Been saying this for a long time.you guys,
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Post by anansi on May 16, 2022 6:38:09 GMT -5
Have anyone ever head of Naughts and Crosses , I chanced upon on it on a stream link , before I found out it was a book, which many said was better than the series, but it goes something like this, An African invasion of Europe 700 yrs ago, and unlike the Moorish invasion of 711 A.D or 1070 A.D they stayed and never went home it’s now 21 st century the Africans ( Nigerians by the looks of it) setup an apartheid like system back in the 50s , in Albion aka Europe ,England as the epicenter , forbidden romance, loyalty etc, it’s British Made so it’s doesn’t have the punch it would in let’s say an American made flick but still. youtu.be/t0B0YUUuzQQ
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Post by anansi on Apr 26, 2022 8:42:07 GMT -5
Following is some good reading, Kano literature: [ There is a story that the Prophet appeared to Abdu Rahaman in a dream and said to him, ‘Get up and go west and establish Islam.’ Abdu Rahaman got up and took a handful of the soil of Medina and put it in a cloth and brought it to Hausaland. Whenever he came to a town, he took a handful of the soil of the country and put it beside that of Medina. If they did not correspond, he passed that town. So he journeyed until he came to Kano. And when he compared the soil of Kano with Medina soil they resembled one another and became as one soil. So he said, ‘this is the country that I saw in my dream.’” [xx] I wish in this paper to treat the Kano Chronicle (henceforth KC ) as a document of intellectual history, and not just as a mine from which to dig valuable ‘facts.’ The aspect of intellectual history I will discuss is the meaning of historical metaphors - or analogical geography - of which the above story is a rather special example. But first I will try and show that the first ‘edition’ of KC was completed in the mid-seventeenth century and was compiled from materials which had been developed since the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - thus locating the intellectual history in a specific period. The texts used are discussed in the appendix. In writing this essay I am treading where many have trod before. Abdullahi Smith's work on the Sayfawa and on the origin of the Hausa states and Mervyn Hiskett's publications on the Kano Chronicle and on the Song of Bagauda are the most notable examples.] www.researchgate.net/publication/274508274_Historical_Metaphors_in_the_Kano_Chronicle
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