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Some other examples of African furniture
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π ππ«ππ π¦ππ§πππ πππ§π’π§ ππ―π¨π«π² ππππ©πππ« depicting a benin war commander βIyase, Ezomoβ on a horse, dressed in a full benin war regalia. . . Height 13.75cm
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Ngdundeng's pyramid was a pyramid built by the Nuer prophet Ngundeng and his followers in Sudan. It had a circumference of 300 feet and was 60 feet tall. It was eventually bombed and destroyed by the British Air Force.
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The fucked up part about white supremacy now is how diverse it is
Not all cultures are equal, and we shouldnβt be importing the third world. Itβs just that simple.
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Yeah, if you just ignore the naturalistic Benin art & focus on the majority stylised ones. Also, Benin did not learn bronze casting from Ife, it is a historiographical myth gotten from Talbots theory, that has constantly failed all the positivistic objective tests.
The first two sculptures were done in Ife long before European contact. After European contact started and Ife collapsed, the Benin sculptures (which were learned from Ife), were of significant worse quality. Let's stop pretending like the Benin bronzes were that great. Ife
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The emergence of realism in Japanese art can be traced back to at least the tail end of the 12th century with the sculptor Unkei (pictures 1 and 2), who eschewed traditional statue proportions in favor of a more dynamic lifelike style. He's still regarded as one of the preeminent
Having a face is not universal. Whites have faces, with increasing detail, individuation, and inner intensity, from ancient to modern times, in paintings. Primitives and nonwhites have no face.
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Expect a thread in the near Future on the Ife heads and what we know about their origins.
@Phillip05166897 @987yuhjumujhun @dr_duchesne @biafaraboy But this just made it clear that Iβm still not knowledgeable on subjects like this and I need to research myself personally instead of dropping article links. Sighhhh*
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I read this paper so you don't have to Here are some reasons why all of its claims are total bullshit 1) Tsetse fly free regions like the Sahel have some of the lowest levels of agricultural production and population density on the continent https://t.co/rmrP8kXsVk
Mind blowing how much of a menace and barrier to state development the TseTse fly has been in Africa. It kills (via transmitted parasite) essentially all horses and roughly 70β100% of cattle in the areas it inhabits. The paper notes βno African ethnic group occupied
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The real controversy in North American archaeology isnβt aliens. Itβs copper. Old Copper tools in the Great Lakes show 4,000 years of technological regression, from fully functional blades and projectile points back to ornamental plates and beads. No other culture on Earth
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Europeans yes bathed regularly although No single individual invented soap; rather, its creation was a gradual development by ancient civilizations, with evidence of soap-making dating back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon.
@ghaliashafa Europeans bathed extensively before they even saw a black man. In fact, modern day soap was invented by Europeans. Link to claims; https://t.co/S1loOcnd5m,
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The reason most people are seeing this as gotcha is Because Africans are ridiculed the most for building with thatch when as you said earlier others were building with it too,so you should maybe consider this before calling everyone Afrocentristβs
For every Afrocentrist who sees this as a βgotcha,β lol, it isnβt. Thatched roofs didnβt only exist in Africa, but also in Europe and Asia. I donβt know why you guys are shocked. This particular style of thatched roof and house below is European. It was mostly for the commoners.
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c.1920 - Ewe woman having her hair dressed, present day Togo
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