How Anansi taught people to farm
Anansi learns to farm: Women hoeing fields (Uganda) An African story This is a story people in Africa tell about how Anansi the spider taught people how to farm. In [...]
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Anansi the Spider
Anansi the Spider: A spider mask from West Africa (but only fifty or a hundred years old) When were Anansi stories written? African storytellers tell stories about a clever spider named Anansi. [...]
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Ibn Khaldun
Palace of the Hafsids in Tunis (now the Bardo Museum) - where the economist Ibn Khaldun spent time Ibn Khaldun's childhood The economist Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis, in [...]
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Ibn Battuta in China
Ibn Battuta in China - on his travels Continuing travels of Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta had already traveled much more than most people did! But even after visiting East Africa he [...]
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Ibn Battuta – an African traveler
Ibn Battuta on his travels Who was ibn Battuta? He was born in Morocco, in Africa, in 1304 AD. He was from a rich Muslim family, and he went to [...]
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Epic of Sundiata – African literature
Mosque at Djenne, Mali, built about 1200 AD (around the time of the Epic of Sundiata) Was Sundiata a real person? Nobody knows exactly how long the storytellers of West [...]
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Stone Tools in early Africa – African technology
Early basalt choppers from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) The first stone tools Chimpanzees use stones to hammer on nuts and break them open, and they collect stones to throw at enemies. [...]
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History of Fire
History of fire: San men around a campfire The first campfires Probably people were all still in Africa when they first began to use fire for cooking, about 800,000 or [...]
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African Math – Fractions and algebra
African math: Lebombo tally stick (35,000 BC) The first tally sticks African people were the first people anywhere in the world to use counting to keep track of their things, [...]
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African Science and African Inventions – History of Science
African science: Standing stones at Nabta Playa (modern Sudan), ca. 6000 BC The earliest scientists African people made the earliest, and the most important, scientific inventions. And they kept on [...]
