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Nsibidi is one of Africa's oldest independently invented writing systems.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘Sudano-Sahelian’ architecture.
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of Chicago was making plans for a patch of land near Grant Park on the shore of Lake Michigan that had previously been a parking lot and a railroad yard. At first, there was talk of building a large … Continue reading Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean” →
“These days, it’s, ‘Dude, what the fuck is that shit?’ Whereas back then, it was, ‘You are exploiting women, you filthy sexist pig!'” – Vince Collins on his shot animation Malice In Wonderland When Vince Collins made Malice in Wonderland in 1982, his hallucinatory, imaginative and experimental take on Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel … Continue reading "Malice In Wonderland – the Trippy Cartoon Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Story, 1982" The post Malice In Wonderland – the Trippy Cartoon Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Story, 1982 appeared first on Flashbak.
We can all remember seeing images of medieval Europeans wearing pointy shoes, but most of us have paid scant attention to the shoes themselves. That may be for the best, since the more we dwell on one fact of life in the Middle Ages or another, the more we imagine how uncomfortable or even painful […]
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