My Discovery Of Africa

Aspiring anthropology (and archaeology) student. Aiming to explore my own undiscovered roots as a third generation immigrant as well widen people’s perspective of Africa. To show its most secret yet beautiful side. This is a side blog.

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These 9 women represent the 9 official tribes of Eritrea. They each have different languages they speak, music they play, clothes they wear, foods that are seen as special ( yes its true not everyone eats ingera ALL the time), customs they keep sacred like wedding, childbirth, funerals etc, and culture that has been passed down from generation to generation. They are NOT the same. In Eritrea we’re all different in all the above mentioned ways but are united as a nation.

So if my small country of Eritrea can have that many differences (plus more because there are unrecognized tribes living in Eritrea) imagine how diverse the continent of Africa is!

We live in the 21st century. Its time to stop with the Africa is a country, do you speak African blah blah bs. Africa is a diverse continent and the world needs to know that!

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Bless this post forever and ever till Kingdom come <3

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Beautiful photo montage and beautiful message.

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Chad's ancient Ennedi cave paintings defaced

Ancient cave paintings at a world heritage site in the Sahara desert have been defaced with graffiti, Chad’s minister of culture has told the BBC.

The graffiti drawn on the paintings, which are about 8,000 years old, was “a tragedy… offensive to the whole history and memory of Chad,” Mahamat Saleh Haroun said.

Vandals scrawled their names on top of the artworks in French and Arabic.

The Ennedi plateau was declared a Unesco world heritage site in 2016.

“It’s an African story and they wanted to destroy that.

“That’s why I’m talking about a tragedy, because it’s a part of us,” said Mr Haroun, who is also an award-winning filmmaker. Read more.

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Disgusting

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Some of Somalia’s traditional clothing in different times. 

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Ethiopia: Lalibela

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Liu Xiaodong 

The Nude Black Maya, 2009 

Oil on Canvas

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Antelope, fish, and other scars on the torso of a Murle man near Pibor in South Sudan

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Photograph by: Robert Caputo / Aurora Photos

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Martinique

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Soninke women use only their hands and fingers to apply the earth pigments obtained from the Senegal River. Buanch, Mauritania, 1988

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A man stands outside the National Museum of Niger. Niamey, Niger. ©Joe Penny

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Africa | This young Fulani woman is making a deliberate show of her wealth at the weekly market in Jenné. Her nose ring, earings and neck pendant are gold, her bracelets silver and her necklace made of European glass beads. Many wealthy women of Jenné are financially independent of men; they inherit gold jewellery, and every woman has her own herd. Mali | ©Angela Fisher, Africa Adorned, 1984

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Standing Female Figurine, Tlatilco, c.1200–900 BC, Saint Louis Art Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/11136/

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“Maghreb, Artisans de la terre”, texte de Jamal Bellakhdar, photographies de Cécile Tréal et Jean-Michel Ruiz. Hazan, 2002.

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This is called [ نيلة ] or Indigo dye, it is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color.

( Nila - نيلة) was the foundation of centuries-old textile traditions throughout West Africa. From the Tuareg nomads of the Sahara to Cameroon, clothes dyed with indigo signified wealth. Women dyed the cloth in most areas, with the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Mandinka of Mali particularly well known for their expertise. Among the Hausa male dyers, working at communal dye pits was the basis of the wealth of the ancient city of Kano, and they can still be seen plying their trade today at the same pits.

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Toubou mother, Niger

The way she’s holding that basket :>

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It’s not a basket.. But ok lol

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Would you happen to know the correct terminology?

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It’s a Majmar “مجمر” ; Local accent in North Africa

Majmar : is used for Embers (burning coals) when making tea, and sometimes it is for making incense in social gatherings and local festivals

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Pendant, late 1800s, Cleveland Museum of Art: African Art

Pendants like these were worn as symbols of protection. Size: Overall: 3.8 cm (1 ½ in.) Medium: ivory

https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.189

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image 1: a Thembu mother and child captured by Alice Mertens, 1973

image 2: a scamp of AbaThembu - leadership

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tejiendo esperenzas