#east africa arts

[moonfirebrides]

“The Pearl is the Queen of gems and the gem of Queens.”

Photographed by @maganga.mwagogo Model @adhel_bol Creative Direction @sunnydolat Makeup @sinittaakello Hair @rickykish Dress @sevaria.ke Jewellery @we.are.nbo Producer @zi.ggie Production Assistant @janeywaithera Project Manager Kenya @eastafricaarts Styling Assistant @bryan.emry

[scottpartridge]

The Hartlaub’s Turaco is week one of this December #birdartweekly from @migratorymay featuring endangered East African birds.

[napoleonyaoi]

Arnaut Blowing Smoke at the Nose of His Dog, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1882.

(Or as I like to call it, Man Engages in the Age Old Tradition of Annoying Your Dog)

[doodlesnoff]

this drawing of Ragsat Al ‘Aroos, or the Sudanese bridal dance, was made in collaboration with awladalneel for their fundraiser for their work and the sudan solidarity collective. prints are available with proceeds to the same.

The ritual dates back to the Kingdom of Kush, where the dance was performed by couples during wedding ceremonies as an ode to the fertility god and to highlight the brides’ beauty. Until recently it was performed topless with a stringed skirt (rahat) pulled undone during the dance. Today, some choose to continue the tradition, reshaping the ritual to meet religious, familial, or personal preferences. Brides prepare intensively with a teacher (ragasa) and perform after the ceremony (jirtig). The bride begins in a thoob and groom in a jalabiya, and during the dance her belt is cut and thrown to the audience. The specifics of the dance, as well as the wedding week, vary widely across tribes, communities, and regions (it is most common in the north). The dance, and the African history it embodies, has survived and adapted to Arab, Egyptian, Ottoman, and British rule, and today through the struggle for freedom & peace in contemporary Sudan.

[blondebrainpowered]

Ptolemaic Bronze Head of an Ethiopian. 4th-1st century BCE.

[illustratus]

Bashi-bazouks before a Gateway by Paul Joanowits

Bashi-bazouks were irregulars in the Ottoman army and hailed from lands across the Ottoman empire, from Egypt to the Balkans. The two soldiers converse in an Egyptian setting, the gate topped by Mamluk carvings and flanked by East African 'Grandees' chairs', amalgams of Mamluk, Portuguese, and Indian influence.

[mushroompillows]

6:00 PM

Tahrir Square at golden hour — The Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt

[talllsam]

#1 Gaurdian Angel

#2 Aprotopaic talisman with gätsä säb'e on the center of eight-pointed star. ~ "In Ethiopia the eight-pointed star are sometimes called "Solomon's Seal". The eight points indicate the four directions of the talisman's protective power"

Estimated: 19th Century

Sourced: Magic Scrolls of Ethiopia (1979)

[nuroful]

🇸🇩Online Charity Draw 4 Sudan— Feb 18! 🇸🇩

[ellie-makes-mbs]

name moodboard for “hafsa” for @arestoucries

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Ancestor (Paranthropus boisei) 

Paranthropus boisei was an early hominid species from 2.5–1.15 million years ago, living among the wetlands and lakes of the East African Rift System. The skull "Zinj" or "the Nutcracker Man" was discovered in 1959 in the now-arid Olduvai Gorge.

[egyptianrenaissance]

Some problems of Neo-kemetists in Egypt

Egypt like I said many times before used to have its own distinct culture, but after a series of invasions like the Arab Islamic conquest, huge aspects of Egyptian culture faded away until Egyptians as a whole have become Arabized.

This situation has remained up until recently, when a lot of mostly young Egyptians started a movement which I like to call “Neo-Kemetism” where the main purpose is to revive Egypt’s indigenous culture.

However, recently there has been mostly a wave of racism towards other people in the MENA region by a not small portion of those nationalists. Whether racism towards Arabs, or Sudanese people or people from the Levant region.

Now of course, I am not claiming to be perfect or that I would never do that as well. I am sure if you scroll down for a bit, you might find some stuff of that sort. However, eventually you realize that this is really not the way of reviving Egyptian culture.

Sure, there are lots of negative aspects of cultures that do deserve to be called out, especially tribal Arab traditions which involve sexism, religious fundamentalism and marital violence to name a few.

However, they do not engage in such actions BECAUSE they are tribal Arabs. In other words, it is not imbedded in their genes and these cultural issues can be solved with enough education (hopefully).

It is tragic how Egypt lost its own culture, but to blame others for every single problem occurring, that, in my opinion, is a weak man’s game. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror and admit that we too play a role in worsening the situation even more when we are racists and hate-fueled towards people who had nothing to do with what happened 1400 years ago.

[ladychandraofthemoone]

In my au Stanley (narrow gauge) has a special interest in insects (I hc him as being into animals, they don’t judge you for your “jinx” and he’s got a soft spot for critters that are seen as “bad luck”) and tends to blurt out the most detailed information, he often info-dumps with and to Nia who encourages it cause it makes him happy once he’s freed from his “jinx” and she know every single insect name alphabetically along with their scientific names and nicknames Here we have Duke immediately regretting asking them if they can name every single species and ends up sleeping when they’re engrossed in their conversation before leaving when they were in the mid section of the e category (Nia gave him “the disappointment older sister look” awhile back so the poor guy can trapped there and wondered how did he got ever himself into this situation)

Basically it’s just Stanley to Duke in alphabetical order: Alderflies Angel Insects Anoplura (Sucking lice) Ants Antlions Aphids Archeognatha (Bristletails) Barklice Bees Beetles Bird lice Biting lice Blattodea (Cockroaches) Booklice Bristletails Bugs Butterflies Caddisflies Chewing lice Cicadas Cockroaches Coleoptera (Beetles) Collembola (Springtails) Crickets Damselflies Diplura Diptera (Flies) Dobsonflies Dragonflies-

Nia joining in cause she was mad at Duke: ah yes the alderfly which are megalopteran insects of the family Sialidae. They are closely related to the dobsonflies and fishflies as well as to the prehistoric Euchauliodidae. All living alderflies – about 66 species all together are part of the subfamily Sialinae, which contains nine extant genera. Sialinae have a body length of less than 25 mm (1 inch), long filamentous antennae, and four large dark wings of which the anterior pair is slightly longer than the posterior. They lack ocelli and their fourth tarsal segment is dilated and deeply bilobed. Dead alderfly larvae are used as bait in fishing-

duke:shooketh (Nia’s is basically the train version of a encyclopedia also her design is based off of MrTerrier673 on Twitter)

[doodlesnoff]

Masalit dance available at my INPRNT with proceeds to @sudansolidaritycollective & @kudusi2020 , which works to support Masalit culture in the US.

The Masalit are an indigenous African tribe in Darfur area of Sudan, who speak Masarak. They, along with other non Arab tribes, have been historically targeted in repeated genocides including by the RSF today. The dance is vigorous and happy, where groups (of any genders) take turns jumping up and down in duos or trios in unison.

[alvallah]

Imagine being rich and paying for bland minimalist textiles and cold sterilized homes when you could be paying folk artists handsomely for handcrafted beauty and color —helping preserve honestly quite priceless artistic traditions and supporting the people who keep these legacies alive— instead.

[cindydacatpink]

My CountryHumans OC aka Country Humanize character (Cindy Nilo Evelyn country doppelganger)

Here my CountryHumans collection:

• Africa:

- Lerato Zola (Black South Africa 🇿🇦)

- Isabel Sky (White South Africa 🇿🇦)

- Mariam Hayat (Chad 🇹🇩)

• Asia:

- Alitza Derora (Israel 🇮🇱)

- Hadal Emaya (Palestine 🇵🇸)

- Salma Dalia (Gaza Strip 🇵🇸)

• Europe:

- Daria Anastasia (Romania 🇷🇴)

Btw, I tried inspired Hetalia and Animondos based on Deviantart which is i love this character country version especially CountryHumans. Also a lot cartoon, Tv Show and other media doppelganger character.