Africa History In Pitures

03/11/2023

In 1987, a mother held her daughter at a Budapest market. Three decades later, they recreated the photo, with Atilla Manek as the photographer. The subjects in the photos are Atilla Manek's wife and daughter.

27/04/2023

Brief history…

During the 18th Century, the people of Benin kingdom were the first to have contact with the White men in Africa, the Portuguese.

02/03/2023

02/03/2023

Real question , why is that we have about 5,465 active satellites in space but anytime we see footage of orbit we never see any of them floating by?

02/03/2023

Victor Noir’s grave in Père -1984. Noir is perhaps more famous for his death and grave than work. The statue became a fertility symbol - the story says those who rub the ge***al area will find themselves with enhanced fertility, a great s*x life or find a husband within one year.

05/02/2023

There's a lot of talk about time travel. But what if everything you knew about time was wrong? Today we examine the evidence that suggests a different perspective and an even more fascinating proposition - that our ancient selves "pre-existed" in a state of timelessness and then entered linear, physical reality as physical beings.

05/02/2023

Do you know ?
Sam Mbakwe Airport in Imo state is the only Airport in Nigeria that was built with the financial contribution of citizens. The Airport was build by Igbo’s in 1983, thirteen years after the civil war.

Here are the list of people who contributed

08/01/2023

Portrait of a Hamar woman near Turmi, Omo valley, southwest Ethiopia. Photograph by Luisa Puccini.
"The Hamar (or Hamer) Tribe - population about 50,000 - in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region are pastoral semi-nomadic people living in the Omo River Valley. The rites of passage to adulthood of the Hamar Tribe Rituals include cattle leaping and young Hamar women getting whipped to prove their love for their kinsmen.
The entire life of the Hamar turns around their cattle, which marks the wealth of its owner-family, provides food during times of hardship and plays an important role in the tribal rituals, like dowry for weddings.
The women cultivate sorghum, beans, maize and pumpkins, fetch water, cooking and looking after the children - who start herding the goats by age eight. Men herd the cattle, plough the fields and keep bees. Young men live in grazing camps near the Omo River plains. When bush food runs out, they survive on cow’s milk and blood taken from its neck. If a man loses a family’s cattle herd his reputation will be ruined.
Appearance is extremely important to the Hamar People, having spectacular hairstyles, for both men and women, and grooming ones hair is essential to the Hamar's sense of beauty. Women paint their locks with fat and red ochre and then twist them into dreads, while often ostrich feathers and other ornaments are attached. Men who have killed an enemy or dangerous animal wear a mud cap that lasts for months. To protect their hairdos, the men always carry a borkoto, a wooden headrest for a pillow. Married women wear iron rings around their necks and they also decorate themselves with shells, glass, seed and metal beads, and they wear beaded goat skins that cover their bodies.
Iron rings, necklaces, tools, weapons, and ritual objects are made by the blacksmith (gito), who are shaman-like figures believed to have the power of the evil eye. They also are the “makers” of men and women through the scarification tools and ornaments they make."
-Worqamba Tour

08/01/2023

2 very similar Djenné terracottas, Mali, 12th to 14th century.
A thermoluminescence test by the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), Oxford University, suggests a last firing date between 1136 and 1436 for the first sculpture. Dates later than the 14th century are unlikely however, as the old city of Djenné-Djenno had been abandoned by then. A similar 12th to 14th century date was provided for the second sculpture.
The sculptures are part of a small body of works of about twenty objects, believed to belong to a ‘pre-classical period’, identified by their relatively naturalistic anatomy and subtlety of their postures.
The stylistic homogeneity of this body of work suggests that an artist or workshop was honoring commissions for private altars or for a sacred site built in honor of an ancestor or deity.

20/11/2022

African gene is Known to be the strongest gene in the world as it only gene that can reproduce it kind

20/08/2022

According to experts that research the history of the African continent, African has an original ancient name which is *Alkebulan* before it is named African. This name translates to “mother of mankind,” or “the garden of Eden.”
Alkebulan is an extremely old word, and its origins are indigenous. Many nations in Africa used this word, including the Ethiopians, Nubians, Moors, and Numidians.
The continent of Africa is as mysterious as it is beautiful. The richness of the cultures of people living there is still not entirely understandable to people coming from other parts of the world.