Tag Archives: Africa

2017: How Dogs Vote

Posted on November 7, 2018 by corvusfugit

African wild dogs vote by sneezing: African wild dogs exhibit dominant-directed group living and take part in stereotyped social rallies: high energy greeting ceremonies that occur before collective movements. Not all rallies result in collective movements, for reasons that are … Continue reading →

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1974: Author Awarded Avocado

Posted on September 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

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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2010: Johannesburg

Posted on August 18, 2018 by corvusfugit

Zanele Muholi: Mbala Zulu, KwaThema, Springs, Johannesburg, 2010

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1799: Nine Family Heads

Posted on August 9, 2018 by corvusfugit

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 18th Century, Africa, Art, Books, Demons, Magic, Medicine, Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim | Leave a comment

1956: Portrait

Posted on June 23, 2018 by corvusfugit

Seydou Keïta: Untitled (1956)

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Art, French Sudan, Mali, Photography, Portraits, Seydou Keïta, Women | Leave a comment

15th Century: Portrait

Posted on December 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Bronze portrait: Nigeria, 15th Century; photo from this post on Where’s Malko.

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17th Century: Satan

Posted on December 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 17th Century, Africa, Angels, Art, Books, Christianity, Ethiopia, Religion, Satan, Zämänfäs Qeddus | Leave a comment

1972: Boycott Gulf

Posted on December 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

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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1976: In the Heart of Civilization

Posted on November 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jungle Action Vol. 2, #19 (January, 1976) Cover Artists: Gil Kane, Dan Adkins, & Irv Watanabe

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2009: Looking at Art; Looking at Africa; Looking at Art

Posted on November 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Alex Mawimbi (formerly Ato Malinda): Looking at Art; Looking at Africa; Looking at Art (2009); “for the length of one hour, the performer crawls from one lying position on mangled concrete, to a standing position at a pile of soil. … Continue reading →

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