#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

[unteriors]

Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

[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…

[folkfashion]

Nyau dancers, Malawi, by Mwabwera Ntchana

[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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[inatungulates]

Cape rock hyrax Procavia capensis capensis

Observed by mariedelport, CC BY-NC

[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.

[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.

[unteriors]

Veeplaas (Ibhayi), Eastern Cape, South Africa.