From Jori Lewis at Aeon magazine:
It started a few years ago, with a conversation I had with my then-boyfriend, a Senegalese agronomist, first about peanuts and then about slavery. He lived in the Sine-Saloum region of Senegal, a four-hour drive from where I lived in the capital, Dakar. I was writing about the history of peanut agriculture, Sine-Saloum’s main crop, so I was often there.
A succinct yet useful resource. I’m taking a break from my research at the moment due to work, convention and further study, but there’s a lot more coming up in the near future, I promise you that!
100 Things That You Did Not Know About Africa /black People…
For centuries, humans have invented ingenious devices to replace lost limbs. Here we have a gallery of some of the most cutting-edge prosthetics from years past — comparable to today’s bionic arms. What’s fascinating is that these historic devices weren’t just about limb replacement, but also enhancement.
The History of Prosthetics Reveals a Long Tradition of Human Cyborgs
by Nicole Ouimette
The revolution will not be cited. It will not have a bibliography, or a title page. The revolution will never happen in the seclusion of the ivory tower built by racist, sexist, and classist institutions. Professional academic researchers in the…
One of the reasons I started my research into what I call the African cyborg, that is, the physical and metaphysical union of person and machine, was precisely for this reason. How we imagine our pasts shapes not only our futures, but the methods we use to shape our futures, i.e., our activism.
Why Liberal Academics and Ivory Tower Radicals Make Poor Revolutionaries
Ancestors and Archaeology in Africa
From one of my favourite researchers in the field, Peter Schmidt, who’s been pretty influential for me starting in my research on pre-colonial African technologies.
