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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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“As a photographer, my principal subject was – and remains – the British people, I’m not interested in celebrities, just ordinary folk” – Daniel Meadows In 1973, Daniel Meadows toured Britain in his 1948 Leyland Titan PD1 double-decker bus. He met he met circus performers, holidaymakers, pigeon fanciers, fishermen and and tattooists. For 14 … Continue reading "All Aboard for A Bus Tour of 1970s England" The post All Aboard for A Bus Tour of 1970s England appeared first on Flashbak.
The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
