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Tag Archives: Africa
1974: Author Awarded Avocado
The opening of Walter Abish’s 1974 novel, Alphabetical Africa: Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex’s admonition, against Allen’s angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Africa, Ants, Archaeology, Austria, Books, Novels, USA, Walter Abish
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2010: Johannesburg
Zanele Muholi: Mbala Zulu, KwaThema, Springs, Johannesburg, 2010
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Africa, Art, Comics, Photography, Portraits, South Africa, Women, Zanele Muholi
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1799: Nine Family Heads
In the late 18th century, a physician from northern Africa named Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim assembled this book of practices for dealing with physical, mental, and spiritual ailments. It also includes sections on secret alphabets, divination by sand, magic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Africa, Art, Books, Demons, Magic, Medicine, Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim
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1956: Portrait
Seydou Keïta: Untitled (1956)
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Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Art, French Sudan, Mali, Photography, Portraits, Seydou Keïta, Women
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15th Century: Portrait
Bronze portrait: Nigeria, 15th Century; photo from this post on Where’s Malko.
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Tagged 15th Century, Africa, Art, Nigeria, Portraits, Sculpture
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17th Century: Satan
Zämänfäs Qeddus: How Satan came (again) looking like four women and St. Michael trod on him; a page from the late 17th century Gondar Homiliary. This Homiliary was created in Gondar, Ethiopia, during a period of artistic flowering in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Africa, Angels, Art, Books, Christianity, Ethiopia, Religion, Satan, Zämänfäs Qeddus
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1972: Boycott Gulf
An anti-colonialist poster from the early 1970’s produced by the Pan-African Liberation Committee in Brookline, Massachusetts: “There are but two sides in a war—she fights on the side of African freedom – Gulf finances the other.” At the time, Angola … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Africa, Angola, Capitalism, Colonialism, Photography, Women
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