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The concept of "cool" in West and Central African languages.
In his research, Robert Farris Thompson posits that the idea of "cool" representing calmness, composure and nonchalance is a example on African lexical influence on modern parlance.
ALT "An Aesthetic of the Cool" Robert Farris Thompson
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Black Immigrants like to blame their failures back home on their governments, absolving themselves of any responsibility.
But governments don’t exist in a vacuum, they reflect the societies that produce them. Blaming everything on leadership is just a convenient form of cope.
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The Manding language continuum extends into Mauritania. In eastern Mauritania, especially along the border region, Bambara is spoken. Just like Mali, Guinea, Senegal, Burkina Faso etc. parts of Mauritania are Manding territory too🇲🇷
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I hate to sound like an Unc, but if this is true, it speaks to a bigger problem I’ve been noticing. Growing up, if you lost a fight, you took your L and kept it movin. Nowadays, too many young ppl are quick to pick up a gun because they can’t handle losing a fight.
@oguzparasayan I came across your Iroungo Cave preprint and have one minor suggestion. I REALLY think you should incorporate genomes from Bubi individuals. The Bubi are a Bantu group native to Bioko in 🇬🇶. They have been largely isolated from other groups until ~200ybp and bcuz..
From this study. If you really want, I can send you GRCh37-aligned BAMs for all 12 of these individuals or even GATK-called VCFs link.springer.com/article/10…
For more info on Bubis you can see this thread nitter.cf/Original_Libbro/status…
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My attempt on mapping B-M150’s structure in northeast Africa in the image below:
Let me know your opinions.
One thing that kinda annoys me about a lot of these studies is that they ignore some of the most basal Bantu populations. Bubis were pretty much isolated from all other populations for like 1800 years AND we have high coverage, publicly-available WGS data from them
This decline could be cuz of the end of late Holocene rainforest crisis. A dry period provided ideal conditions go grow their crop package (yams, millet, cowpeas, etc.) in what was formerly evergreen rainforest. Returning wet conditions undid this o algo nitter.cf/DanTabin/status/211591…
This decline could be cuz of the end of late Holocene rainforest crisis. A dry period provided ideal conditions go grow their crop package (yams, millet, cowpeas, etc.) in what was formerly evergreen rainforest. Returning wet conditions undid this o algo nitter.cf/DanTabin/status/211591…
New preprint from @oguzparasayan looks at the origins of Bantu peoples and sequences four historical (~700BP) Congolese genomes. One interesting finding is a population contraction in both Bantu groups and hunter Gatherers ~1500 BP.
Read it here:
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
More information in this 👇🏿 thread nitter.cf/Original_Libbro/status…
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Imagine living in a slum in Southeast Asia, expressing hatred for a group that you've never encountered before in your life.
You can't imagine a more pitiful existence.
This study has been under my nose all this time! Early Iron Age communities deep in the Congo Basin were without a doubt cultivating cowpeas and pearl millet ~2kya link.springer.com/article/10…
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Cape Town is so crazy, you can find Malawians competing with the descendants of Malays over “Khoi-San” identification😭😭.
“You may be colonised, but your hair will never change. You can find Khoi-San who have the same hair as me in all museums,” says a woman who has settled at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. However, another group of Khoi-San people questions her identity, accusing her of "false assimilation".@Nobesutu_Hejana reports
Watch: tinyurl.com/yjwshzch
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How long until they discover their caste system and involvement in the slave trade, and realize they’re not the woke noble savage Muslims they made up in their heads?
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Horners do shit like this then wonder why no one actually likes them. While simultaneously despite their own problems West central South and bantu countries are infinitally more functional than horner countries that can't even function on a basic level. Constantly having infighting then turning around fighting each other when you think about it really. The reason why horners obsess over looks is because that's all they have honestly
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Ayer os contaba que el poblado del reino de Damot que excavamos quedó abandonado cuando el reino cristiano de Etiopía conquistó la región en el siglo XIV. Hoy hemos descubierto cómo fue su final: los conquistadores arrasaron el poblado y le prendieron fuego. No solo eso...->
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>"out of africa is officially dead"
>quote tweeting a video of a researcher explicitly explaining that humans most likely didn't originate in southern africa but the region agreed upon by common consensus, eastern africa.
the "high IQ" people we argue with on here
