#eastern africa

[folkfashion]

Djiboutian Arab woman, Djibouti, by sarahsaidd

[allthegeopolitics]

Drought in Kenya has reached dramatic levels, with millions of people affected by the lack of water and food. This phenomenon, which until a few years ago followed predictable seasonal cycles, has become increasingly frequent and intense. Recent climate crises have worsened the living conditions of the inhabitants of arid and semi-arid regions, whose survival depends heavily on agriculture and livestock.

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[inatcanids]

Side-striped Jackal Lupulella adusta

Observed by iainmcdonald, CC BY-NC

[nickysfacts]

Yasuke, the black samurai who helped the Demon King unify Japan!

🧑🏾‍🦱🇯🇵

[inspofromancientworld]

Mount Elgon and Eastern African Agriculture

By Image courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech - version here, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1178211

Mount Elgon sits on the border of Uganda and Kenya and is an extinct shield volcano known to the Maasai as 'Ol Doinyo Ilgoon' (Breast Mountain). It has five major peaks, with the tallest, Wagagai, having a height of 4,321 meters and lying in Uganda making it the 17th highest in Africa. It has not errupted in at least 25 million years.

Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-history-ancient-traditions/earliest-plant-farming-east-africa-0021068

The Kakapel Rockshelter presented a nearly 9000 year record of plant and animal life in the region, making it a good place to study how people lived in the area over a long course of time and the layers have been carbon dated, allowing researchers to understand that picture over time. Prior to this recent study, it was known that there was some agriculture in the area by 1000 years ago, but how far back agriculture in the area goes was uncertain. It was broadly thought that people were pastoralists, following flocks and herds of cattle, goats, and sheep.

Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-history-ancient-traditions/earliest-plant-farming-east-africa-0021068

What the researchers found was that about the time the Bantu speaking people who tended to be farmers moved into the area, about 2500 years ago, joining the people who were thought to be only herders. This shows there was movement toward domesticating crops much earlier than previously thought and that there was a robust exchange of ideas. The first domesticated crops that in the area were cowpeas and sorghum with evidence of wild grasses and other plants being used as well. This demonstrated that the people of this area were able to adapt to what they could grow or gather. The researchers hope this and continuing research will also help with food security and environmental stability moving forward.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Climate change is rarely simple, and while Homo sapiens' homelands in eastern and southern Africa were getting wetter seventy thousand years ago, North Africa was drying out.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[nonbinary-vents]

I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that ‘he’s a white coloniser!’ ‘he’s clearly European!’ and ‘how are we supposed to think he’s indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!’ They were screaming so much about he couldn’t possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact that… wait for it…

Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.

The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.

But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeans— I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the second’s remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean look— which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well

It’s not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that you’re claiming to be the defender of. Please. I’m so tired of this bullshit lol

*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and we’re not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe it’s a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what I’m trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please

**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone

[neyatimes]

Malawi: Toddler dead, 23 others missing as hippo capsizes boat in Nsanje district

CNN  —  A toddler has died after a boat ferrying more than 30 villagers across the Shire River in Malawi’s Nsanje district was attacked by a hippo, causing it to overturn, authorities said. A police spokesperson, Agnes Zalakoma, said the incident happened early Monday and 23 of the boat’s 37 passengers were missing and feared dead in the water, which is infested with crocodiles and…

[karinyosa]

id:

a tweet by azadeh shahshahani (@ashahshahani) that says, "anticipate heightened targeting of palestinian and muslim community members by the fbi in the coming weeks.

if you live in the u.s. south and are contacted by the fbi for questioning, contact us at project south.

the national lawyers guild has a national hotline: (212) 679-2811"

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[folkfashion]

Nyau dancers, Malawi, by Mwabwera Ntchana

[worldspotlightnews]

CDC to warn some travelers to watch for Marburg virus symptoms as it investigates outbreaks in Africa | CNN

CNN  —  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending personnel to Africa to help stop outbreaks of Marburg virus disease and is urging travelers to certain countries to take precautions. The CDC is also taking steps to keep infections from spreading to the United States. Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania are facing their first known outbreaks of Marburg virus, a viral fever with…

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I didn't know that the aardwolf got bigger than just a little guy. Look.

Weirdo hyena cousin hybrid from East & Southern Africa that has peg teeth and only eats insects — are an evolutionary mystery, stemming from a ghost lineage that scientists haven't been able to figure out.

[inatungulates]

Cape rock hyrax Procavia capensis capensis

Observed by mariedelport, CC BY-NC

[loveisinthebat]

A Little Silly

[henk-heijmans]

Xhosa ox sitting on the shore, Hluleka, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 2019 - by Daniel Naudé (1984), South African

[baebeylik]

Fragment of a Woodblock Print on Linen. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. 1200s/1300s.