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The highlight of this year’s Black History Month celebration at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, was a lecture on 2nd March 2017 by Thomas Kwesi Quartey, the deputy chairperson of the African Union.

For more information on the event, see http://wp.me/p7H5Hv-121

Sotomoisture gets dissected

Part three of the Emmy award-winning series, Talking Black in America.

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⁣SOUTH AFRICANS DECIDE 2024, The Role of South Africa for the Africa we want, Professor Bayyinah lectures on the need for each and every African to arise and be intentionally conscious about what your desires and needs are as an African, how do you want to understand your role and contribution to the freedom of Africa and your privates lives

Slavery: The White Woman's Burden
White Women as Slave Owners

Today we're discussing Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers' work, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. This work delves deep into the realities of white female slave ownerships, demonstrating the ways in which white women leveraged competing systems of oppression, particularly race and gender, to attain power, status, and wealth. ChaptersMistresses of the Market 0:00-12:48I belong to de mistis 12:49-15:39Missus done her own bossing 15:40-16:38She thought she could find a better market 16:39-18:55Wet nurse for hire 18:55-24:21Her slaves have been liberated and lost to her 24:22-25:28A most unprecedented robbery 25:29-26:28Epilogue 26:29-29:00Works CitedGordon, Tiye A. The Fancy Trade and the Commodification of Rape in The ..., scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4647&context=etd. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024.Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property. Yale University Press, 2020. Little, Becky. “The Massive, Overlooked Role of Female Slave Owners.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/news/white-wom....en-slaveowners-they- Accessed 5 Mar. 2024.Lydia Maria Child: Charity Bowery, www.sojust.net/literature/child_charity.html. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024. King, Henrietta. "“Henrietta King”; an excerpt from Weevils in the Wheat (1976)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 05 Mar. 2024

Read excerpts from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with me! This book was written in 1972 so the facts, figures, and nomenclature reflect that time. Sadly, Rodney's powerful ideas caused him to be assassinated in 1980. His works are still extremely resonant today, as the international landscape continues to evolve.

This is the first episode of The Archive, a show where we talk about history, politics, and books.

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The Empire of Wagadu (Ouagadou), more commonly known as the Ghana Empire, was a powerful state in the Medieval Sahel of West Africa, and one of the earliest in written record. With origins in antiquity and a reputation for wealth and glory in contemporary sources, it has long been an icon of Black history, though today it tends to be overshadowed by the later Mali Empire.

This video is part of Untold Black History, a collaboration organized by Jabari from From Nothing with the intention of shedding light on the history of Africans and the African diaspora. Check out the full playlist here:
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Special thanks to@schrodingersmoose for providing the voice of al-Bakri, @KenKwameWrites for providing the voice of al-Zūhri, and @MostlyMiSinging for providing the collaboration theme!

Maps based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOexUoPc6YU

Sources:
Bennison, Amira K. “The Almoravids: Striving in the Path of God.” In The Almoravid and Almohad Empires, 24–61. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvhrczbp.8.

Burkhalter, Sheryl L. “Listening for Silences in Almoravid History: Another Reading of ‘The Conquest That Never Was.’” History in Africa 19 (1992): 103–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3171996.

Conrad, David, and Humphrey Fisher. “The Conquest That Never Was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076. I. The External Arabic Sources.” History in Africa 9 (1982): 21–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3171598.

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“State Building in Ancient West Africa: From the Tichitt Neolithic Civilization to the Empire of Ghana (2,200BC-1250AD.).” State building in ancient west Africa: from the Tichitt Neolithic civilization to the empire of Ghana (2,200BC-1250AD). African History Extra, March 27, 2022. https://isaacsamuel.substack.c....om/p/state-building-

00:00 Introduction
01:01 The Basics of Wagadu
01:55 The Sahel
03:13 The Salt-Gold Trade
05:15 Government in Wagadu
06:52 The Capital
09:21 Archaeology
11:55 Religion
14:55 Islam in Wagadu
17:06 The Almoravids
21:14 Decline and Fall
22:53 Conclusion

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