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Who Were The Ancient Painters of Saharan Rock Art?
The View from Tassili n’Ajjer (S.E. Algeria), c. 5,000 BC.
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isaac Samuel retweeted
Great article. Check out bark and mud cloths too. And Ukara, a tie-dye cloth from the South. Gave birth to the Cameroonian Ndop. So fascinating.
Thornton:
The great paradox of the African textile trade is that the regions which were the biggest producers of textiles were also the biggest importers
It's clear that Africans did not simply buy European and Asian cloth because they were incapable of making their own
ALT Precolonial African Industry and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1800 by John Thornton
The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Benin's cloth exports to Dutch traders, 1505-1816
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Palaver(n.)
From the Portuguese palavra "word, speech, talk".
In West Africa, the Portuguese word became a traders' term for "negotiating with the natives," and apparently the English picked up the word there.
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a ‘Palaver’ (public meeting) not far from Badagry (Nigeria), by William Allen, ca. 1841
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Very vibrant and beautiful. I wonder the dyes they used to get the reds. 19th century will be 1800s.
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i wanna live in a world where colonial America was outfitted almost exclusively in Kente cloth type textiles
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Have you ever looked into the Yoruba wars of the 19th century? It’s fascinating how complex the war economy of the region was at the time and how large scale the conflict actually was
a ‘Palaver’ (public meeting) not far from Badagry (Nigeria), by William Allen, ca. 1841
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“Southern Nigeria was one of several in Africa that exported its own cloth to European traders while also importing European textiles, at times within the same transactions.”
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Yarn imports into West Africa.
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Nupe silk and cotton textiles
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Indigo resist-dyed adire textiles
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
africanhistoryextra.com/p/th…
Igbo textiles
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Yoruba textiles
19th-20th century
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Southern Nigeria in the 18th century.
The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
africanhistoryextra.com/p/th…
The decline of Nigeria’s ancient textile industry was a much more gradual process than the “deindustrialization of the periphery” thesis would suggest.
50,000,000 square yards of cloth (13% of all cloth) were still woven on traditional looms in the 1960s
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Igbo weavers sometimes reproduced popular imported patterns that had fallen out of production in European factories, flipping on its head a European strategy of mimicking African cloth
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