Full Width 
Shortcuts 
Sign Up 
Log In 
Articles 
Reading List More from African History Extra
Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
Journal of African Cities: chapter 21
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
In the opening decades of the 19th century, Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and political dynamics that intersected with, and were in some areas the outcome of, external influences.
More in history
Having seen the tattoos collected by Alexandre Lacassagne, a French physician and criminologist, we now get to show them on the flesh from a book of 1930s tattoos. These pictures are from the journal Crocodile, bi-monthly bulletin of the General Association of the medical internship of the Civil hospitals in the city of … Continue reading "Portraits of French Criminals Showing Their Tattoos in the 1930s" The post Portraits of French Criminals Showing Their Tattoos in the 1930s appeared first on Flashbak.
Flourishing in present-day Peru centuries before the Inca, the Moche, sometimes called the Mochica, remain somewhat mysterious compared with more recent pre-conquest cultures. What is known about them comes primarily from crumbling temples and long-ago ransacked graves, which have revealed skilled artisans and architects with a rich spiritual tradition. Twenty-first century discoveries of intact […]
Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5 million people lost in the middle of the Inner Mongolian steppe?
