Installation view, Omar Ba, “Clin d’œil : à Cheikh Anta Diop - Un continent à la recherche de son histoire” (2017), oil, pencil, acrylic, ink, and gouache on corrugated card, 129 4/5 x 282 1/2 x 15 ...
"Reprint of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 2022)"--Colophon "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition The African Origin of Civilization, on view at The ...
The result of these distortions is that when most people think of Africa’s past, they see only pyramids and pharaohs — and imagine them as white. Meanwhile, kingdoms like Kush, Mali, Aksum, Songhai, ...
The human origins question has been settled, but we know precious little about the emergence of civilization in Africa. Most Holocene archaeologists define civilization, in part, in terms of settling ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of ...
When students learn “Western Civilization” in schools and universities, the implicit message is that Europe has always been the world’s most advanced cultural and political region. The idea is that ...
Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons from East Africa helps pin down the origins of coastal Swahili society. By Elie Dolgin A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores of ...
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
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