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Medieval African Fashion to be Showcased at Berlin’s Bode-Museum https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/medieval-african-fashion-bode-museum/ #AfricanHistory #MedievalFashion #BodeMuseum
Medieval African Fashion to be Showcased at Berlin’s Bode-Museum - Medievalists.net
Starting February 6th, Berlin’s Bode-Museum will host Dress to Impress: Reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia, an exhibition highlighting the artistry and elegance of medieval African fashion.
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January 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Queen Njinga leading her troops in style. #Angola #earlymodern #africanhistory #17thcentury #textilehistory #ivory #africanqueen
African Queen Njinga leading a group of people
November 30, 2024 at 11:45 AM
ottomanhistory.bsky.social
🖼️ Rich Ethiopian, 1577 #ottomanempire #history #ethiopia #african #blacksky #africanhistory #16thcentury
Rich Ethiopian with Horse and an Ottoman Turkish man engraving.
January 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Encounter itself was an author in this visual atlas of 17th/18th century Kongo & Angola created in the crosscurrents of European missionary activities and central African cosmopolitan societies @psupress.bsky.social 30% off 👉 NR24 #booksky #arthistory #africanhistory #earlymodern #skystorians
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola By Cécile Fromont
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 an...
www.psupress.org
November 27, 2024 at 9:47 AM
cecilefromont.bsky.social
What did the idea of eternal damnation and Catholic images of hell mean to enslaved survivors of the middle passage?
Larissa Brewer-García and I reflect on this question in 👉🏽 academic.oup.com/arthistory/a...
@forarthistory.bsky.social #earlymodern #slaveryarchive #latinamerica #africanhistory
Attributed to Jean-René Lhermitte, View of Cap Français and of the ship Marie-Séraphique, capitaine Gaugy, on the day of the beginning of sales, third trip to Angola, 1772–73. Watercolour on paper, 55 × 43 cm. Nantes: Musée d'Histoire de Nantes. Photo: Musée d'Histoire de Nantes. Alejandro Salas, El infierno, 1879; copy of a seventeenth-century painting by Hernando de la Cruz. Oil on canvas, 315 × 485 cm. Quito: Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús. Photo: Raúl Montero Quispe, MAVCOR.
December 1, 2024 at 4:49 PM
nocharacterlimit.bsky.social
Eleanor Xiniwe 1890s www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #southafrica #history #19thcentury #Africanhistory #Britishhistory #music #singer #blacksky #blackandwhite #photography
December 30, 2024 at 12:38 PM
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Antonio Manuel ne Vunda, Kongo ambassador to the Pope in Rome in 1607-8. His polychrome marble bust usually graces his funeral monument high above ground in Santa Maria Maggiore. In the Global Baroque exhibition at the Quirinale, you can see him almost eye to eye #earlymodern #Kongo #AfricanHistory
Marble bust of a Kongo ambassador
June 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
benjaminwendorf.bsky.social
Can't tell you how exciting I am to see this in print, having seen some of the work that's gone into it. Believe me when I say @maryhicks.bsky.social's first book is going to be a fantastic contribution to #AtlanticWorld, #AfricanHistory, and #AfricanDiaspora #history. #BlackHistory
Cover of Mary E. Hick's new book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery.
November 13, 2024 at 1:20 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 23 Sept 1913, women in South Africa 's Orange Free State protest the pass laws that forced women of colour to carry papers in order to travel for work.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AfricanHistory 🗃️
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Black women protestors carrying placards suggesting passes mean destitute children. They are surrounded by white men in military uniforms.
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
medievalists.bsky.social
Newly Discovered Document Confirms a ‘Legendary’ African King www.medievalists.net/2026/03/newl... #history #AfricanHistory #Nubia
Newly Discovered Document Confirms a ‘Legendary’ African King - Medievalists.net
Newly discovered Arabic document confirms the existence of a ‘legendary’ African king and reveals how rulers governed in Nubia.
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March 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
rationaldispatch.bsky.social
Article discusses the 7th-century Arab conquest of North Africa, which effectively erased the region's rich, indigenous history through violence, forced conversions, and cultural assimilation.
idicenter.org/article/the-...

#History #NorthAfrica #AfricanHistory #NorthAfricanHistory #Amazigh
The Infidels of North Africa
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September 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
cecilefromont.bsky.social
It's been 10 years since the publication of The Art of Conversion! Now working on the Portuguese translation (stay tuned!) & reflecting on this early career work #earlymodern #skystorians #Africa #Angola #Kongo #historyofart #Africanhistory #historyofreligion
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December 5, 2024 at 10:15 AM
house-of-otun.bsky.social
Madam Tinubu is remembered as a powerful Nigerian heroine who resisted British influence. Yet she was also involved in the slave trade. History is rarely black and white. So who decides what we remember — and what we forget? 👀

#AfricanHistory #NigerianHistory #HiddenHistory #HistoryMatters #book
September 25, 2026 at 5:35 AM
nocharacterlimit.bsky.social
Zulu Warrior Ceremony, Swaziland, South Africa, c. 1947, Photography by Eliot Elisofon #zulu #swaziland #southafrica #blacksky #Africa #1940s #history #Africanhistory
January 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 9 Aug 1956, more than 20,000 women of all races march through Pretoria, South Africa, to petition against the law forcing women to carry passes in order to move about.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AfricanHistory
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Four women of the five women who led the march, carrying armfuls of the petition. Left to right, they are: Rahima Moosa, a South Asian woman; Lilian Ngoyi, a black woman; Helen Joseph, a white woman; and Sophie Williams, a black woman.
August 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region.

Read more: carvehername.org.uk/...

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #AfricanHistory
A photo of Yaa Asantewa holding a rifle. The quote reads "I must say this: if you, the men of Asante will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight! We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields."
March 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
thezenoftrueart.bsky.social
Ntombephi "Induna" Ntobela (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), "My Sea, My Sister, My Tears," beads on cloth, 2011; photo: Currier Museum of Art. #africa #southaafrica #africanart #blackculture #blackhistory #africanhistory #art #textile #textileart #museum #artgallery #blackhistorymonth
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
medievalists.bsky.social
This week on The Medieval Podcast @5minmedievalist.bsky.social : Medieval Africa with Luke Pepera www.medievalists.net/2025/03/medi... #medieval #AfricanHistory
Medieval Africa with Luke Pepera - Medievalists.net
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Luke Pepera about medieval Africa, what it would’ve been like to find yourself in one of the most powerful empires of the Middle Ages, and the…
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March 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
I needed something really smart to read tonight. Here's something neat for folks doing #GlobalMiddleAges work: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Trans-SaharanTrade #MedievalSky #AfricanHistory
An excerpt from de Palaminy et al. 2026 on the sources of Fatimid gold coins found in the Caesarea hoard: "The number of Early Islamic single gold coins and hoards discovered in excavations over the past decades has grown exponentially, particular those minted during the Fatimid period (10th-11th c.) [65]. As a result, numismatic research has made impressive advances with publication of a detailed corpus of these coins [66,67]. In 2015, a hoard of 2,668 gold coins of this period, one of the largest hoard of its kind ever discovered in the Eastern Mediterranean (weighing 7.5 kg), was found in a shipwreck in the ancient harbor of Caesarea, Israel [68]. Now housed in the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, this assemblage offers a rare and valuable case study for gold provenance research. It presents two major advantages: it is both “sourced” and “sealed.” First, its archaeological context is securely known—unlike coins in most numismatic collections, which mostly derive from undocumented donations. Second, having remained underwater for nearly a millennium, the hoard has not been subject to post-depositional processes such as reminting, recycling, or forgery, nor chemical cleaning, preserving the original metallurgical composition of the coins."
August 4, 2026 at 1:57 AM
catherinekerrigan.bsky.social
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo (Angola) fought Portuguese colonizers for 40 years in the 1600s. Master strategist, never colonized. Carried a sword until her 80s. #AfricanHistory #QueenNzinga
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
cpaphil.bsky.social
CPA Tourcoing Le Chateau du Congo

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#Tourcoing #ChateauDuCongo #ColonialHistory #BelgianCongo #HistoricalPostcard #VintagePostcard #AfricanHistory #ColonialArchitecture #HeritageSite #OldPhotography #Early20thCentury
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Oh, and a reminder: if you teach the Mansa Musa story about the price of gold in Cairo, be sure you pull out Warren Schultz's deconstruction of that story, just to get the facts straight: www.academia.edu/81562385/Man... #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #AfricanHistory 🗃️
Mansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations Anecdote
Mansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations Anecdote
www.academia.edu
August 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
medievalists.bsky.social
New Medieval Books: Great Kingdoms of Africa www.medievalists.net/2026/07/new-... #historybooks #AfricanHistory
New Medieval Books: Great Kingdoms of Africa - Medievalists.net
The medieval era features prominently in this edited volume, which examines several of the most important states to emerge in pre-modern Africa. Its nine studies span regions across the continent.
www.medievalists.net
July 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
cecilefromont.bsky.social
Have you seen the Netflix docudrama on Queen Njinga?
#Angola #earlymodern #africanhistory #17thcentury #textilehistory #ivory #africanqueen
Watch African Queens: Njinga | Netflix Official Site
Executive produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith, this docuseries about warrior Queen Njinga of Angola features expert interviews and reenactments.
www.netflix.com
November 30, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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🚨 6th HAAM-RADIO Webinar
🌍 African Population Demography and Social Organizations of the Past
🗓️ Wed, 28 Jan 2026
Register here:
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#AncientDNA #HumanGenetics #AfricanHistory #HAAM #Webinar
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January 23, 2026 at 3:03 PM