#african publications

[alwaysbewoke]

[detroitlib]

View of Maasai man in profile. Handwritten on sleeve: "Kenya, Masai tribe, 1926/27."

National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

[yorksnapshots]

Invisible Man sculpture in Graphite by Zak Ove 2016.

Encountered at Thirsk Hall Sculpture Park, North Yorkshire.

Not understanding the concept behind this, my first thought was 'We come in Peace' but I don't claim to be cultured. Anyway, I find them aesthetic and would love one in my garden.

[wastingawayinmyroom]

reread disintegration, finished the currently posted chapters of cmu, and reread the second half of choices in one day.

the smut and angst are literally mixing in my brain like a blender 😭😭😭

anw, here’s my thoughts of cmu!!!!

CHEEESE TOASTIES

sir you get a date with a guy and you take him to fucking ITALY. BECAUSE HE SAID HE LIKED ITALIAN FOOD???

crazy but damn I need a sugar daddy now

regulus is an icon

the James Wins thing has me screaming istg

STOCKINGS KINKKKK (almost the same level of accurate as the knife kink)

”stroke your ego”??? girly more like stroking his di-

dude. the gender representation. this was actually wonderful to read abt, like gender-fluid reg is so underrated. give my pookie some love y’all!!!!

but fr his struggle with gender is something I relate with on an atomic level

the smut….

look ik somebody’s gonna be like “jia!!! you’re a minor!!!”

but if y’all can write masterpieces with minors doing stuff and write about minors reading that same type of stuff, then i can read about that stuff

anw GAHD DAYUM

THAT WAS HOTTTT

regulus in denial about the praise kink 🤭

”inappropriate use of champagne” “me and the limos are at it again” damagecontrol your tags will kill me

after the angst kills me ofc

that was WILD

can’t wait for puerta vellarta!!! or whatever it’s called!!!

ALSO THE THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS MENTION????

MICAH NEMEREVER OH MY GODDDD

IK ITS NOT THAT IMPORTANT BUT AKAHKWHWI

MY FAV BOOK

IN MY FAV FIC

SBAJBAJA

LILY EVANS HAS TASTEEEEE

[covenawhite66]

Africa is a continent of more than 50 countries, and home to thousands of languages and cultures. Africans lived in complex societies, from small villages to large bustling cities, that contained universities, mosques, and libraries.

Africa has great civilizations that flourished in Africa included Egypt, Kush, Axum, Mali and Great Zimbabwe.

Africa's history is complex and stretches back through centuries of dynasties. Africa contributed to our knowledge and understanding of ancient writings, languages, agriculture and engineering. Its extensive trade system connected the continent with Asia and India, producing a lively exchange of goods such as grains, metals, and gold.

Black History instruction in K-12 education, 65% of the 401 educators interviewed said that their state does not mandate Black History instruction. Only 12 states require some form of Black history curriculum.

Africans were free before they were enslaved. Enslaved Africans relied on their knowledge and beliefs to survive slavery, and their contributions to U.S. culture, society, and economy are evident in every aspect of American life and enterprise. Agriculture, music, art, and culinary.

[yourdailyqueer]

Da'Shaun Harrison

Gender: Non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A 

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Writer, activist, public speaker, journalist

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Trains? >:3

TRAINS :D

[kemetic-dreams]

Mainstream breakthrough

Flavor Flav of Public Enemy performing in 1991

In 1990, Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet was a significant success with music critics and consumers. The album played a key role in hip hop's mainstream emergence in 1990, dubbed by Billboard editor Paul Grein as "the year that rap exploded". In a 1990 article on its commercial breakthrough, Janice C. Thompson of Time wrote that hip hop "has grown into the most exciting development in American pop music in more than a decade." Thompson noted the impact of Public Enemy's 1989 single "Fight the Power", rapper Tone Lōc's single Wild Thing being the best-selling single of 1989, and that at the time of her article, nearly a third of the songs on the Billboard Hot 100 were hip hop songs. In a similar 1990 article, Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times put hip hop music's commercial emergence into perspective:

It was 10 years ago that the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" became the first rap single to enter the national Top 20. Who ever figured then that the music would even be around in 1990, much less produce attractions that would command as much pop attention as Public Enemy and N.W.A? "Rapper's Delight" was a novelty record that was considered by much of the pop community simply as a lightweight offshoot of disco—and that image stuck for years. Occasional records—including Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" in 1982 and Run-DMC's "It's Like That" in 1984—won critical approval, but rap, mostly, was dismissed as a passing fancy—too repetitious, too one dimensional. Yet rap didn't go away, and an explosion of energy and imagination in the late 1980s leaves rap today as arguably the most vital new street-oriented sound in pop since the birth of rock in the 1950s.

[culmaer]

I've been looking for various references to the Cape "snoek horn" (fishmonger's bugle) and came across a story/blog post written phonetically in Kaaps-Afrikaans dialect with English code mixing. certainly worth looking at for anyone interested in Afrikaans and Dutch, to get a sense of what the Cape Town dialect can look like. (the full post is on Jeremy Vearey's blogspot)

but my main reason for sharing, and with my sincere apologies @geschiedenis-en-talen, is the phonetic rendering of the final words of this paragraph :

As djy vannie Tiervlei se lane is en djy kennie vir Boetie Stinkvet tie dan is djy vaak gebore en het annieslaap grootgeword. As djy innie 80's van Tiekie-stage byrie hoek van Balvenie en Connaught verby Bataan se winkel straight orrie sandveld galoeppit dan kô kry djy die begin van dertiendelaan. Nou nerra oppai hoek, daa was Boetie Stinkvet se rooisink disco, smokkie, bioscope, restirant eksekera eksekera.

I stand by what I said, that Afr. "ensovoorts" / Eng. "and so forth" are more commonly said here, but I guess this is proof that this pronunciation does in fact exist at the Cape

with standardised spelling, but maintaining the dialect and code-mixing, the above paragraph would read :

As jy van die Tiervlei se lane is, en jy ken nie vir Boetie Stinkvet nie, dan is jy vaak gebore en het aan-die-slaap grootgeword. As jy in die 80's van Tiekie Stage by die hoek van Balvenie en Connaught verby Bataan se winkel straight oor die sandveld geloop het, dan kom kry jy die begin van Dertiendelaan. Nou net daar op daai hoek, daar was Boetie Stinkvet se rooi sink disco, smokkie [smokkelhuis], bioskoop, restaurant et cetera, et cetera.

English translation :

If you're from the streets of Tiervlei, and you don't know Boetie Stinkvet, then you were born tired and grew up asleep. Back in the 80's, if you walked from Tiekie Stage on the corner of Balvenie Avenue and Connaught Road past Bataan's shop, straight across the sand field, then you'd find yourself at the start of Thirteenth Avenue. Now, right there on that corner was Boetie Stinkvet's red sheetmetal disco, shebeen [speakeasy ?], movie hall, restaurant, et cetera, et cetera.

[rabbitcruiser]

“The first of its kind on any of the nation’s state house grounds,” the African-American History Monument was sculptured by Ed Dwight of Colorado and was dedicated on March 29, 2001.  

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Efua Dorkenoo

Efua Dorkenoo was born in 1949 in Cape Coast, Ghana. For over thirty years, Dorkenoo was at the forefront of the global fight against female genital mutilation, and is credited with helping the problem gain recognition as a public health issue. She studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and published the first report in Britain on the topic of FGM. In 1983, Dorkenoo established the Foundation for Women's Health, Research, and Development, which aimed to protect the health and rights of African women and girls. She also worked for the World Health Organization in the 1990s and 2000s.

Efua Dorkenoo died in 2014 at the age of 65.

[gregdotorg]

Hammons America Street January 2023, 2024

Back in 2018 I made a series of photosets tracking the state of David Hammons' Charleston, SC public art installation, America Street (1991), in Google Street View. And it looks like Hammons' African American Flag that used to fly over this park on a city-owned vacant lot is gone, and has not been replaced since.

Hammons America Street January 2017, 2018

[detroitlib]

Portrait of singer Adelaide Hall. Autographed on front: "To Exie with my sincere wishes, from Adelaide Hall, 'Black Birds' Co., 1929." Stamped on back: "Copyright by Germain Krull, Paris." Handwritten on back: "Hall, Adelaide."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[prettyymafia]

no lie this gone piss all y'all off but tumblr users as a whole are not qualified to critique the tiktok app or its users. like at all.

[arrlpdma]

Public Domain Art Showcase #4: Chromolithograph of a Samoan snake charmer

Hello there, it's me again with another post showcasing a piece of artwork in the public domain. This piece is a chromolithograph of a snake charmer that was printed sometime in the 1880s. It is inspired by Nala Damajanti (also referred to as Maladamatjaute), a late-19th century snake charmer. This poster codified common visual portrayals of Mami Wata, a water goddess of the African diaspora.

More to come soon.

[yourdailyqueer]

Akudo Oguaghamba

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Nigerian

Occupation: Activist, writer, public speaker