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10/25/2022

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10/24/2022

We was doing these hairstyles before your mom's was born from archiveafrica * Nigeria *
All images: Untitled [Hairstyle], 1966-75 © J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. Courtesy of The Walther Collection and Galerie Magnin-A, Paris.

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10/24/2022

From archiveafrica *Illustration*
Female Amazon of the Fon, Dahomey, 1840s
[img]http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SlaveTrade/collection/large/Norman14.JPG[/img]
Dahomey, 1890s
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10/24/2022

From
archiveafrica *Afro-Iranians * in light of the protests I thought I’d shed some light on Afro-Iranian culture.
Many modern day Afro-Iranians are descendants of African slaves captured during the Indian Ocean slave trade. African slaves in Iran during the Qajar era were often eunuchs. The men in the picture above are wearing dress suggesting that they belonged to the king or high-ranking members of his court. From right: Aqay-i ‘Almas khan, Aqay-i Bahram khan, Aqay-i Masrur, Aqay-i A Seyid Mustafa, Aqay-i Iqbal khan, and Aqay-i Yaqut khan (different person from other photo), 1880s Photograph: Kimia Foundation.
The African slave trade in the Persian Gulf began well before the Islamic period. Mediaeval accounts refer sporadically to slaves working as household servants, bodyguards, militiamen and sailors in the Persian Gulf including what is today southern Iran. The practice lasted, and evolved, through many centuries.
In Iran’s modern history, Africans were integral to elite households. Black men were mostly eunuchs working inside the king’s harem and houses, while black women were servants to Iranian women.
Via the guardian https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2016/jan/14/african-slavery-in-qajar-iran-in-photos

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10/20/2022

The Walls of Benin were a combination of ramparts and moats, called Iya in the local language, used as a defense of the defunct Kingdom of Benin, which is present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria. It was considered the largest man-made structure lengthwise and was hailed as the largest earthwork in the world. It is larger than Sungbo's Eredo.[citation needed] It enclosed 2,510 sq. miles (6,500 km²) of community lands. Its length was over 9,900 miles (16,000 km). It was estimated that earliest construction began in 800 and continued into the mid-15th century.
The Benin Walls were ravaged by the British in 1897 during what has come to be called the Punitive expedition. Scattered pieces of the structure remain in Edo, with the vast majority of them being used by the locals for building purposes. What remains of the wall itself continues to be torn down for real estate developments.
The Walls of Benin City was the world's largest man-made earth structure.
They extend for some 160 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They cover 2,510 sq. miles (6,500 square kilometres) and were all dug by the Edo people. In all, they are four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet

10/10/2022

I hate the fact that NYG lost to you know who, but we go move....

09/21/2022

😂😂

08/27/2022

Freaks of nature

08/27/2022

The 2nd pic happened in Texas

08/27/2022

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