India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]
A Samnite man cutting the bronze pins off a newly poured lost wax statue. This is the only ancient image of lost wax casting; it's from Pompeii, about 400 BC. [...]
Ngazargamu In the 1500s AD, eastern Nigeria was part of the Islamic Bornu empire. The Bornu built their capital city at Ngazargamu. The Kanem-Bornu ruler Mai Idris Alawma ruled Ngazargamu [...]
African clothing and colonization: this is Indian cotton cloth - ca. 1500 AD Africans imported cloth from India By 1500 AD, most people in Africa were making at least some [...]
African salt caravan To have a chance to think about what these economic trades would have meant to African people, imagine you are one of these people (if you're in [...]
Crafts from early Africa: A simple Mancala board If you're a teacher, parent, or day camp counselor thinking of spending a week or so on ancient Africa, these are some [...]
Djenne clay pot from medieval West Africa Long long ago people didn't know anything. They didn't know how to plant crops, or how to weave clothes, or how to make [...]
Anansi's free dinner: Niger River, West Africa Anansi and the Turtle, continued Well, as time went by, Anansi the spider began to think more and more about how Turtle had [...]
Anansi and the turtle An African story This is an African story about Anansi the spider and Turtle. One day, Anansi the spider picked some yams from his garden. They [...]
Anansi and the wooden baby Aso tells Anansi how to catch a fairy So Anansi climbed back down to earth again to get the fourth creature for Nyame, which was [...]
