opens up the gateway to an exciting exploration of 16th-century North Africa and the Sahara desert. Its outcome will be an interactive multi-media e-book, built around a digital atlas and offering the first modern English version of the classic Descriptio
The objective of African Journeys is to encourage the study of the presence and contributions of Black people in the world during the beginnings of the Diaspora, from 600-1650 AD.
Slave trading dominated the Portuguese economy in eighteenthcentury Angola. Slaves were obtained by agents, called pombeiros, who roamed the interior, generally following established routes along rivers. They bought slaves, called peças (pieces), from loc
From roughly 500 B.C. to the year 1000, to the Rwanda-Burundi region came a people called Hutu. Their race is Bantu, which means they came from somewhere in central or southern Africa. They lived by planting and harvesting. They lived in large family grou
Although West Africa has no monuments comparable to the Pyramids and Temples of Ancient Egypt or the ruins of Zimbabwe, it has in the stone circles of the Senegal and the Gambia impressive remains that have puzzled the few travellers who have examined the
The purpose of African Odyssey Interactive (AOI) is to promote an ongoing exchange of ideas, information, and resources between artists, teachers, and students of African arts and culture. It is an adjunct initiative of the Kennedy Center’s African Odysse
Founded in 1994, the Baobab Project was established to make African visual culture available to a broader audience, as well as to create a research tool which can be used by scholars and students alike.
The Mande people are renowned for the wide variation in their religious, linguistic, and social practices. Such differences occur not only between groups and regions, but also among them. However, these variations seem somewhat superficial when compared t
As roots tourists gather in front of the cannon at Cape Coast Castle or the Portuguese Church at Elmina, they are consciously participating in an act of remembrance--symbolically taking possession of the past. Their photographs are evidence of a return to
Labor problems had plagued the colony since its beginning in the mid-17th century. The supposed solution was the importation of slaves, but the steps taken by the British to end the slave trade in the early 19th century and the increasing intensity of the
