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The first photography book on Sudan, as told by Sudanese. 100% of proceeds support women and children affected by war.
Stolen Genius
This book traces the depth and continuity of African innovation across human history.
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Love Letters to Sudan
Why African Sacred Traditions Called Animism, but Christianity Religion?
On animism, the 99 percent, and the pattern that appears everywhere I spent years across Africa before I understood what I had been taught not to see. The work took me into cities and villages across the continent, and the Dinka were among the people I sat with. What struck me then, and what I did not have language for until much later, was how completely their account of the world held together. Nhialic sat at the center of it. Not a spirit of the sky, though that is how it
Africa Is Not Developing. It Is Recovering.
The word we use to describe the continent's trajectory is not a matter of semantics. It is priced into the cost of capital. In 1879 a British medical student named Robert Felkin was passing through the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara, in what is now Uganda. He witnessed a surgery. The surgeon washed his hands. He washed the woman’s abdomen. He used banana wine as both anesthetic and antiseptic, made a single incision, delivered the child alive, cauterized the bleeding vessels with
Stolen Genius: Everyday Things You Didn’t Know Came from Africa
Part Two: Clothing. Cosmetics. Calendars. Coffee. Nubian merchants wearing Sudanese Jalabiya. via lastplaces Introducing the next chapter in this series on African discoveries that changed human history from my upcoming book Stolen Genius. From the clothes we wear to the time we track, the rituals we practice, and the drinks we rely on to stay awake, many of our most “everyday” habits have ancient African roots. Here are just a few examples of how African societies revolution
Stolen Genius: The Legacy of African Medicine
via Africa Rebirth Introducing this new series on African discoveries that changed human histories. For centuries, the world has credited European laboratories and pharmaceutical companies with the foundations of modern medicine. But the truth long buried under colonial silence is that Africa has always been a continent of healing, science, and surgical innovation. Here are just a few examples of how African societies revolutionized medicine long before the West caught on. 1.
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