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The eastern plateau of South Africa, known as the Highveld, is dotted with the ruins of numerous stone towns founded at the end of the Middle Ages.
A bewildering variety of currencies circulated freely in the various states and societies of Africa during the pre-colonial period.
A century before Mansa Musa’s famous pilgrimage, the political and cultural landscape of medieval West Africa was dominated by the empire of Kānem.
Up to 90% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s material cultural legacy is kept outside of the continent, according to a French government-commissioned 2018 report by Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and French historian Bénédicte Savoy.
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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When it comes to understanding the world around us, philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty offers a unique perspective rooted in phenomenology. His book Phenomenology of Perception challenges ideas that are normally taken for granted about our senses. While other philosophers who study the mind concentrate mainly on thoughts themselves, Merleau-Ponty’s investigation goes further: How do our […]
The artist cannot do without his dialogue with nature, for he is a man, himself of nature, a piece of nature and within the space of nature. – Paul Klee, 1923 For German-Swiss artist Paul Klee (1879 -1940) the line is “a dot that went for a walk”. For him, drawing the line and … Continue reading "A Line Is The Main Protagonist : Paul Klee’s Black and White Lithographies" The post A Line Is The Main Protagonist : Paul Klee’s Black and White Lithographies appeared first on Flashbak.
The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, ravaged Europe between 1346 and 1352, decimating almost half of the continent’s population. This pestilence, which we now know was carried by fleas, spread like wildfire across Europe in the mid-14th century. However, there were several resurgences of this disease in the centuries that followed. […]
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The country of Georgia is located in the southern Caucasus where Europe meets Asia. The region has often found itself at the crossroads of empires. After unification in the 11th century CE, the kingdom of Georgia experienced a Golden Age in the 12th century. Mongol invasion and infighting within the Bagrationi dynasty forced separate […]
