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These 5 stories show that queerness was a part of pre-colonial Africa

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.

African King: The Story Of ‘Shaka iLembe’ Reveals A History That’s Been “Underserved In Almost Every Way”

Gibson, Desireé Markgraaff and Teboho Mahlatsi — the experienced trio behind Shaka iLembe production house Bomb! Productions ...
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Mbeki’s renaissance: From idea to institution

The symmetry between the 2010 launch and the 2025 banquet underscored what the foundation has become — not a monument to ...
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Pre-Colonial South-East Africa

In recent years, historical research on the pre-colonial period in the area between the Zambezi and Limpopo has almost ground to a standstill. A number of seminal works on the economic and social ...
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Handbook to the Iron Age : the archaeology of pre-colonial farming societies in Southern Africa / Thomas N. Huffman

Iron age archaeology -- Settlement and political archaeology -- Settlement organisation -- Stonewalling -- Central cattle pattern -- Moor park cluster -- Ntsuanatsatsi cluster -- Zimbabwe pattern -- ...
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Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

This course is available on the MA in Asian and International History (LSE and NUS), MA in Modern History, MSc in Culture, Justice, and Environment, MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation, MSc ...
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Indigenous Ashaninka DNA helps geneticists write new chapters of pre-colonial history in South America

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously ...