Our story begins in the gutters of downtown Mushin, Lagos, where an ever-present stagnant puddle is home to the close-knit Anafele…Continue reading on Medium »

Why Political Changes in Africa Always Fail to Liberate the Continent?Continue reading on Coinmonks »

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To nie jest to, co Hitler pokazywał i wojna i zajecie nowego terenu w Rosji. Ja pokazuję te obozy pracy i to nie chce być przyjęte. Ja…Continue reading on Medium »

Historical records indicate that people from East Africa (The Swahili Coast) had contact with China as early as the Tang Dynasty (from 618 to 907 CE), though initially often as part of broader Indian Ocean trade networks dominated by Arab and Persian merchants. During this period, individuals of African descent, sometimes referred to in Chinese sources as Kunlun (崑崙) appeared in China, though the term was used somewhat ambiguously and could refer to people from various parts of maritime Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Africa. It was during the Song (from 960 to 1279 CE) and especially the Yuan Dynasty (from 1271 to 1368 CE) under Mongol rule that more direct and independent contact between East Africans and China became evident. The most notable textual source is Zhao Rugua’s 'Zhu Fan Zhi' (Records of Foreign Peoples, c. 1225), a Song era compendium based on reports from foreign traders and sailors in the port city of Quanzhou and Guangzhou. In it, Zhao describes regions along the East African coast including Zhongli (possibly Somalia or the Somali coast), Bila (likely Berbera or another Horn of Africa port), and Jiaocha (Another Swahili city state) noting their customs, trade goods (like ivory, ambergris, and tortoiseshell), and even physical descriptions of the inhabitants as well. More importantly, Zhao’s account says that Swahili merchants were not merely passive participants in trade mediated by Arabs or Persians but were actually active, independent agents who traveled to southern Chinese ports. This aligns with archaeological evidence: Chinese ceramics especially celadon and porcelain from the Song and Yuan periods have been found at numerous Swahili coastal sites such as Kilwa, Manda, and Mogadishu, indicating robust two-way exchange. Moreover, during the Yuan Dynasty, under the cosmopolitan rule of the Mongols, maritime trade expanded significantly, and Quanzhou and Guangzhou became one of the world’s busiest ports, hosting communities of Arabs, Persians, Indians, and likely East Africans. Some scholars even suggest that individuals of African origin may have served in the Yuan court or military, though direct evidence remains limited. Zhongli, Zhao writes the following The people are black, wear no clothes except for a cloth around their loins… They anoint their bodies with butter. Their country produces ivory, ambergris, and sandalwood. They come to trade in Guangzhou and Quanzhou. Crucially, he uses the phrase “they come” (其人來) implying agency and direct travel by the people of Zhongli themselves, no mention of intermediaries. This is where European Historians begin to diverage adding in their own Eurocentric and racist interpretations removing any agency from Sub-Saharan Africans that Zhao’s descriptions of Africans are unreliable or fictional and dismissed as hearsay or exaggeration. All the while Arab, Indian, Southeast Asian, and even European entries are treated as credible. Scholars like Kusimba, Alpers, and Davidson have directly called out the racism embedded in older narratives structured by Europeans. “The persistent denial of African agency in Indian Ocean trade reflects deep-seated colonial ideologies that equated Blackness with inferiority and passivity.” Today, Guangzhou is home to the biggest African diaspora in China as it was during early Medieval times. submitted by /u/TerraFormerZero [link] [comments]

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This was during July and specifically around central and eastern Algeria if anyone is curious. submitted by /u/lexerzexer [link] [comments]

January should mean the Harmattan season in Western Africa — the cool dry wind that brings relief. But this year it hasn’t arrived.Continue reading on The New Climate. »

When people talk about marriage in Africa especially in Mozambique , one word always comes up: lobolo.Continue reading on Medium »

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We really lack structural support gf is the one that needs it and the other one that is not submitted by /u/Wonderful_Station393 [link] [comments]

Submission Statement: In this piece on development cooperation, Hartmut Pfüller (a professor at the University of Rostock) suggests a fresh idea for development aid: systematically pairing the richest countries with the poorest ones. For instance, the presented link examines trade between Norway and Niger as a concrete example. The basic idea is very simple: for every starving child, there is at least one person in the world willing to save him or her, but, he or she is simply not aware of the specific case. So let’s try to remedy this: Let us simply publicise this, for example, by taking the poorest region and allocating responsibility for it and its inhabitants to people living in the richest region. Simple. We then do the same with the next poorest region and again allocate responsibility to the next wealthiest region and so on. To be clear: Our goal is not to give away food or money, but to create the necessary infrastructure on the ground so that the needy can eventually provide for themselves. There are lists of the per capita income of all countries and if we find the median, we can allocate the regions with the lowest income to the regions with the highest income. We then make this assignment binding for one generation, say 25 years. Initially, as part of an initial trail period this would be from 2026 until 2050. After that date a new allocation would be made. Would it really be a burden to keep the children of the partner communities from starving? Would not a lively exchange of ideas, products and visitors produce the necessary ideas to identify the most suitable forms of self-help in order to create the winds of change in society and business for both sides? The partnership would be published on the Internet: each success, each failure would be directly attributed to the partner communities themselves and no longer a matter concerning anonymous representatives from various interest groups. Joint projects are possible in many fields: health, education, languages, history, tourism, science, literature, art, culture, music, the list is almost inexhaustible.. Established aid organizations could also contribute to the partnership, providing additional support. Such direct partnerships could help to eradicate permanently the disgrace of children constantly starving to death whilst governments continue to pour vast sums and resources into weapons and wars. submitted by /u/SchorschLicht [link] [comments]

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Not sure what tags to use but I'm in the west and even if we have a lot of races but still they use white ppl in medical books. There's this african illustrator who draws medical illustrations but with black ppl as models. It got me thinking if the only reason I've never seen medical illustrations made with non-white people in mind is bc well, I live in the west. (same question could be asked to asian peopl ig, I never saw medical illustrations with them in mind either) submitted by /u/IWantAnUpdate [link] [comments]

Ugandan pop star-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, widely known as Bobi Wine, says he has been beaten, tasered, teargassed and pepper-sprayed while campaigning against President Yoweri Museveni, casting a stark spotlight on the violent and highly securitised nature of Uganda’s latest election. submitted by /u/Kampala_Dispatch [link] [comments]

Cairo has moved beyond diplomatic warnings to direct military action in the Sudan war. On January 9, the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) intercepted and neutralized a military convoy en route to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the Egypt–Libya–Sudan tri-border junction. The operation, carried out just 48 hours before Saddam Haftar’s visit to Cairo, underscored Egypt’s firm backing of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and sent a clear message that the era of relying solely on verbal warnings to the Libyan National Army (LNA) over its ties with the RSF has come to an end. Egypt recently struck a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) convoy near the Egypt–Libya–Sudan border, just before Haftar’s visit to Cairo. This marks a clear shift from cautious diplomacy to calculated military action supporting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and deterring militia activities. With the SAF regaining control over most rebel-held territories, Cairo seized the opportunity to act decisively without risking major repercussions, signaling its readiness to protect strategic interests. The move also reflects regional power dynamics: Egypt acted as Saudi Arabia appears determined to curb UAE expansion in the Red Sea, giving Cairo political cover to confront Abu Dhabi’s allies, including Haftar, without fear of isolation. submitted by /u/Ok_Photograph1226 [link] [comments]