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Africa: Rwanda - Who Lit the Fuse in 1994?: [African Arguments] 7 April marks the 31st commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.[1] Between April and July 1994, 75 percent of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda was exterminated by extremists of the Hutu majority.[2] After three decades of investigations, the identity of those who shot down late President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane - the act said to have triggered… newsfeed.facilit8.network/TK1w #Rwanda #Genocide #Tutsi #Hutu #AfricanHistory

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East Africa: Berlin Conference's Impact On EAC Development 140 Years After Divide of Africa: [New Times] As the world marks 140 years since the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, it is crucial to reflect on the enduring legacy of this event, particularly in East Africa. The conference, which aimed to divide Africa among European powers, left deep scars on the region's political, economic, and… newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJsy #EastAfrica #BerlinConference #EACDevelopment #AfricanHistory #LegacyOfColonialism

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Eva the sewing historian

Woke up this morning thinking about African history. I often think about that.
This time it was the West African kingdoms of Mali. Mali was an empire that ruled over an area from Lake Tchad to the Atlantic, and who, like its predecessor Ghana, was known for it's splendour and culture. Most known to Europeans was probably Mansa Musa, (reigned 1312-1337). Here you can see him depicted on a Catalan atlas from 1375.
#africa #africanhistory #medievalhistory #westafrica #mansamusa

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Discover how African Moors saved Medieval Europe from disease and ignorance in this enlightening video. #africanhistory #hiddenblackcontributions. Did you know that African Moors brought Europe out of the Dark Ages of filth, disease, and ignorance? 🤯 Before the Moors arrived, Europe was drowning in poor hygiene, deadly plagues, and outdated knowledge. But the Black Muslim Moors introduced advanced medicine, science, architecture, and even proper sanitation! In this video.
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Africa: Taung Child - the Controversial Story of the Fossil Discovery That Proved Humanity's Common Origins in Africa - Podcast: [The Conversation Africa] One hundred years ago, a paper was published in the journal Nature that would radically shift our understandings of the origins of humanity. It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in South Africa, which became known as the Taung… newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJNC #TaungChild #FossilDiscovery #HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology #AfricanHistory

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Africa: Can Rwanda's War Against Colonial Ideology Spark Africa's Renaissance?: [New Times] Since the African continent was divided at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the struggle for its wealth has played out on two fronts. The first was political, as European powers, starting with King Leopold II of Belgium, sought to exploit Africa's resources. newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJ5s #AfricaRenaissance #ColonialIdeology #Rwanda #AfricanHistory #BerlinConference

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Lena Oetzel

Don't miss out on this great 🧵 by @emdiplomacy about #emdiplomats from Borno!

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@earlymodern @histodons #BlackHistoryMonth #emdiplomacy #Africa #AfricanHistory

Grey map of Africa on which the Kanem-Borno region is highlighted with green colour
hcommons.socialEarly Modern Diplomacy (@emdiplomacy@hcommons.social)Attached: 1 image We continue #emdiplomacy insights during #BlackHIstoryMonth and want to draw your attention to the #Borno sultanate at the shores of Lake #Chad. Like the neighbouring #Kanem sultanate it was ruled by the Sayfawa dynasty from the 14th century. According to Rémi Dewière, “Kanem and Borno extended their commercial and diplomatic networks from Morocco to Mecca in the #middleAges, to northern Ghana and Instanbul in the #earlymodern period, and then to European countries in the 19th century.” The first known Borno diplomat was Idrīs b. Muḥammad, a cousin of the Borno sultan who was mentioned in the context of a mission to the Mamluk Egypt in 1391. In the decade following 1551, the sultans of Borno dispatched two embassies to Tripoli. In 1574 and 1577, the Borno Sultan Idrīs b. ʿAlī sent an ambassador, al-Hāǧǧ Yūsuf, to Istanbul. (1/5) #NewDiplomaticHistory #Africa #histodons #history #histodons #GlobalHistory @histodons@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe
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In 1903, British officials complained about the "leaking" borders between German and British Cameroon, where slavery and cross-border slave trade continued despite both colonial powers claiming to be abolitionist.
At "Mapping Africa and Asia," Nele Tschuschke examines the history of the British-German border between Nigeria and Cameroon from 1884 to 1906. How was the boundary imagined and fixed both on the map and on the ground?

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Mapping Africa and AsiaA Colonial Demarcation Process. Investigating the Formation of the British-German Border between Nigeria and CameroonIn 1903 a complaint by a British official about “leaking German-Cameroonian borders” (Weiss 2000: 168) reached Garoua, the centre of German colonial administration in German-Adamawa, Cameroon. More complaints from the British Protectorate of Nigeria followed but German officials rejected the accusations although they were aware of the ongoing slavery and cross-border slave trade (ibid.: 167–172). Why did the colonial border...
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Ms. Que Banh

Before I head out for the day ->
Recommended #documentary film.

Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides. For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.

A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.

Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.

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