Ashimi paying 10k bouters for a esclavo levantino

Niggas need to calm down. Do niggas know that potsherd pavements that were scattered throughout historical West Africa in the Inland Niger delta region, Chad Basin, Ife, Benin, Bassar, Notse etc are not wide expansive trans-regional roads?

Can't sleep, so I mashed up some images of the ruins from my 3rd best historical metropole

Now my interest is piqued & I am wondering if Juan de Santiago left a description of Calabar

Ibn Rusta's account on the Saqaliba(Slavs) gives one the idea that they practiced polygamy before they converted to christianity.

Nigerian barber wondering who my forebears were, cause fading my hair texture is annoying. Since boarding school & in a house party with a ghanaian chick back in international school, I have not gotten this much social studies questions due to my hair. I need to return to an Afro

"Decolonising" African history or whatever that is, would be the worst thing to happen to African historiography.

Ibn Butlan in the mid-11th century expressed such sentiments about the Zanj, so I don't think it was a talking point made by whites, but I understand the sentiment.

Darfuri's, shea butter creaming

Esteban Lucumí Do you know which if any sources describe the Kingdom of Benin using oil lamps as street lights? I've heard people say they did so often that I've never really looked into the claim.

In 1987, a 16th-century Benin bronze equestrian figure Ovonramwen gifted Swainson in 1892, was purchased by the Liverpool Museum from a descendant of Swainson. I wonder how much it was purchased for.

I recall that it was noted in the 1500s, that some women in contemporary Senegambia, around the borders of the north bank of the Gambia River, used to titivate their lips via piercing & stretching to make them relatively larger, since they considered it elegant to have such lips

The coloniser's greatest trick was supplanting our culture with his own. We are a continent of amnesiacs

I find it ironic that Scandinavian countries today are "high trust societies", just because of what Ibn Rusta in the 900s noted about the Rus(Vikings)