When We Ruled: The Ancient and Mediaeval History of Black Civilisations

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The ramparts may indicate the boundary of the Ijebu Kingdom that was ruled by a spiritual leader called the "Awujale". Macaskill, however, disagrees. He describes Eredo as a "city". If correct, this would make Eredo one of the very largest cities in all of human history. Comparable in size to modern London, it was the largest city built in the ancient and medieval world. The Portuguese sailed around the tip of South Africa in 1499 and landed in the vast empire of Munhumutapa. Called Benametapa in some of the Portuguese accounts, they described its vast gold reserves, ivory trade, and curious architecture. I have read two books from the series: the ones on the Lake District and New York, and will go on reading him. There is a wide-eyed curiosity in his travelogues. Humour is abundant, both in his prose and in his illustrations. A first glimpse may mark his work as childlike, but there is an undercurrent of restrained melancholy, starting with his Chinese penname, which in translation was The Silent Traveller. As a citizen of the world, he seemed at ease in all places, though those places, one imagines, were far from home. In his writing he expressed Chinese philosophies that a wise man should retain his childlike mind, and humankind should aspire to gain freedom from too many desires. His travel books, in a sense, are all works of longing for peace and harmony.” It is extensively well referenced, extremely well structured and is written in a very concise but very entertaining way. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-05-28 18:09:17 Autocrop_version 0.0.15_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40952920 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

MLA style: "When we ruled.." The Free Library. 2006 IC Publications Ltd. 26 Nov. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/When+we+ruled.-a0152985582 A contemporary of Franz Fanon, Martiniquan writer Édouard Glissant comes to mind as someone who deserves to be read now more than ever. At once philosophical, political, aesthetic and ethical, Glissant’s writing offers a way to approach the world that allows for the utopian to coexist with practical political commitments. Anyone who enjoys the linguistic interrogations of Maggie Nelson, Donna Haraway, or the novels of Maryse Condé, will find Édouard Glissant worthwhile. His theories on identity in relation – as personhood subject to constant transformation – stand as a necessary alternative to cosmopolitanism or the more capital-fuelled, globalised context of today. A good place to start: Introduction to a Po etics of Diversity and Sam Coombes’s A Poetics of Resistance. His novel Mah agony (translated by Betsy Wing) was also recently reissued by the University of Nebraska Press.” The tops of some walls have ornamental patterns, of which chevron and dentelle are the most common. For over 250 feet of its length, the chevron pattern ornaments the outer wall and is perfectly level. The "Eastern Temple" was another part of the complex. It was here that the famous soapstone bird sculptures were found. These birds were typically 14 inches long and stood at the top of three-foot long columns.

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The best creative artists are never content to stay obediently contained within anticipated bounds (as I know well from compiling New Daughters of Africa). So it is with Lorna Goodison, first female poet laureate of Jamaica, winner of the 2019 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry – and have you seen her beautiful artwork, gracing the cover of her new collection, Mother Muse? No better time than now to savour her evocative prose, captured in Redemption Ground – an ever-rewarding book in which personal intimacies connect effortlessly with global concerns, it is also crafted with a generosity that inevitably leads the reader on to other writers and stories. Redemption Ground resonates with compassion, humour and thoughtfulness, as Goodison shares unforgettable formative moments in her life and career, inviting us to accompany her on an ongoing journey of self-discovery.” Writers of colour such as Hughes, however, were nowhere near the school syllabus, which was overwhelmingly monocultural. I hope for future generations that will change, and that budding writers of colour will believe that their story belongs in a book – and see their dreams become reality.” The book is organized into various sections, each focusing on a different civilization or era. Walker takes us on a journey from ancient Egypt and Nubia to the great empires of Mali and Songhai. He doesn't just stop at political history; he also explores the social, economic, and cultural facets of these civilizations. The book is replete with maps, photographs, and illustrations, making it visually engaging and easier to grasp the geographical and historical context. Runoko Rashidi wrote a very useful introduction. We have learned that Runoko Rashidi has been warned not to return to India. Truth is a powerful thing! There are many amazing factsand truths about Africa and her people that are so little known by the general public at large, it is almost like a ‘Secret History of Treasures’ kept out of public sight. We aim to share with people like you and other like-minded souls this‘Secret’ treasure trove of inspiring Histories. We further aim to shed light on History’s hidden gems, to educate, enlighten, empower and entertain.

Yet The Joys of Motherhood is equally groundbreaking and brilliant in its depiction of the life of an Igbo woman, through which Emecheta shows the differences and conflicts between pre-colonial and colonial culture. We discover that Igbo women are not allowed to choose their own husbands, who take ownership of them from their fathers upon marriage, and that their role is defined by their ability to produce and raise sons. Perhaps the most well known part of the ruined complex is the Conical Tower. The Parallel Passage leads on to this curious edifice. It is 18 feet in diameter at the base and 30 feet high, though once higher. The architects of Lalibela seem to have absorbed or developed a wide range of styles. The House of Golgotha has pointed arch windows, with a tendrille-like tracery topped by a cross, similar to a Maltese cross.Antonio Bocarro, a Portuguese contemporary, informs us that: "The emperor shows great charity to the blind and maimed, for these are called the king's poor, and have land and revenues for their subsistence, and when they wish to pass through the kingdoms, wherever they come food and drinks are given to them at the public cost as long as they remain there, and when they leave that place to go to another, they are provided with what is necessary for their journey, and a guide, and someone to carry their wallet to the next village. In every place where they come, there is the same obligation, under penalty that those who fail therein shall be punished by the king." At Eredo, in southwest Nigeria, Darling's team found a huge earthen wall with moated sections. This encircled an ancient kingdom or city. From the base of the ditch to the summit of the rampart measured a towering 70 feet. According to Mark Macaskill of The Sunday Times, the rampart was "100 miles" long and formed a rough circle, enclosing "more than 400 square miles". Walker pulls no punches. “They see us as inferior” he says. “Eventually the whitewashed landscape of history will have to change. But, of course, power concedes nothing without demand.”

Other great periods were centred at cities like Kerma, Gebel, Barkal, Meroe and Naqa (all found in modern Sudan). There are a total of 84 pyramids in the city of Meroe alone and a total of 223 pyramids in the whole of Sudan, making it the country with the most pyramids on Earth, even more than Egypt. Further south, the Kushites (of southern Egypt, and northern and central Sudan) had a very long and ancient history. In their earliest periods, they had a pharaonic culture, much like Ancient Egypt, but beginning earlier than that of the Egyptians. Five thousand artifacts were recovered from the early pharaonic tombs in Qustul. Robin Walker has placed the history of Africa at the beginning of human history where it belongs. For too long the world has been flooded with the racist dogmas coming out of Europe, especially Germany. These dogmas and ideologies masquerading as scholarship declared with absolutely no evidence that Africa had no history. Trapeze has scooped books by authors historian Paula Akpan and UK women’s correspondent Maya Oppenheim. Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017) arrived in Britain in 1962 from Nigeria and spent the rest of her life in London. The author of 20 books, primarily novels, as well as television plays, she was a literary trailblazer who has never been properly recognised in Britain, although her reputation in Africa and America was sealed a long time ago. Whenever I mention her name to most people in the UK, they’ve never heard of her and have certainly not read her books, which is testament to how much she has been undervalued.APA style: When we ruled.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Nov 26 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/When+we+ruled.-a0152985582 Hodgkin continued: "By the 15th century, there was a university at Timbuktu. The Ashantis of the Gold Coast [now Ghana] and the Yorubas [of Nigeria] possessed highly organised and complex civilisations long before their territories were brought under British political and military control. The thesis that Africa is what Western European missionaries, traders, technicians and administrators have made it is comforting (to Western Europeans) but invalid." Headline has swooped for When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve Queens by debut author and historianPaula Akpan. Professor Ivan Van Sertima’s book, They Came Before Columbus is one of the books which set me on a path of discovery and so I can’t resist asking Walker for his take. The issue is hotly debated; some think Van Sertima’s work goes too far. Others argue that it reveals the tip of a much larger untapped iceberg. Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. When we ruled.." Retrieved Nov 26 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/When+we+ruled.-a0152985582

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, who wrote the book Africa: Mother of Civilisation, and the work of John Coleman De Graft Johnson, were also major influences. These historians set him on a new path.

With reigns spanning from pre-colonial Nigeria to the rich lands of Rwanda, and from Ancient Egypt to apartheid South Africa, these rulers shed a new light on gender politics in these regions, showing how women were celebrated and revered before colonising powers took hold, and continue to be long after.