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Anyone out there interested in/researching/responding to historical portraits of Africans in British art?

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2021-02-20

Compared to the infamous trans-Atlantic slave trade, Arabs traded more blacks as slaves than Europeans.

Between 8-17 million Africans were bought by Arab slave traders and reportedly an even greater number died en route.

The Arab slave trade also lasted longer.

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2021-02-15

Serengeti National Park 🇹🇿
Wildebeest & Zebra migration
The Great migration

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2021-02-09

“The Grief” (2018) from self-taught Gabonese photographer .

The main goal of the 25 year old Montréal, Canada-based artist is to represent Africans in a contemporary manner that is familiar yet 'new' to the 21st century beholder.
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2021-01-27

The first thing that came to mind as I read that headline.

(The fact that Musk and Glomgold are both South Africans is purely a coincidence...)

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2021-01-08

Today we remember the Haitian revolution which began on 21st August 1791. The revolution was a revolt by the enslaved Africans in the French colony of Saint Domingue. The revolution was most successfully lead by commander Toussaint L'Ouverture.🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

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2021-01-01

Black-eyed peas are a variety of the cowpea and are part of the family of beans & peas. Not native to the New World, black-eyed peas were brought to the West Indies by enslaved West Africans, by earliest records in 1674.

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2021-01-01

Big Hearty Congratulations to my dear friend for being named one of the most influential Africans of 2020. You continue to be a son of soil who is not only a Pan-Africanist but passionate about Africa’s transformation. Keep soaring.

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2020-12-31

Moorish Africans battling Europeans, from The manuscript of the Weltchronik (Chronicle of the world) written in 1410 AD. This illustration is called "Moses defeating the Moors". In this scene Moses is reimagined as a medieval European saving Europe from the invading African Moors

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2020-12-12

Fellow South Africans, these are the State Of The Nation Graphics

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2020-11-12

I support this post 100% we need more Africans American cartoon characters on television then rappers, athletes and political commentators https://t.co/pSI79qSoBj

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2020-10-21

An artistic expression is more evidently powerful, the sight of these powerful artistic story by are just breathtaking.

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2020-10-08

In today's public awareness campaigns, Ocean Affairs Council has quite a series on combating and defending braised 😂 https://t.co/MoHhryrbHx

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2020-09-26

Drawing Africans is always a treat.

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2020-08-16

I finally finished!! c:
I tried to do something a bit different from what I found googling for references and I really hope you like it.
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https://t.co/UbIMruKraP
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2020-08-08

How Africans are really creating real crypto usercases here by trading Btc for the local currency and vice versa.
https://t.co/S3UPPVKF9L

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2020-07-25

Compare the print and online versions.

Over 400 years, approx 12.5 million Africans were sold into slavery in the Americas. And we're only just beginning to take down statues celebrating slave traders https://t.co/95memZ7xyV

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2020-07-16

Igbo Landing 2/2

https://t.co/SXs1a1VXw9

Captive West Africans rose up in rebellion, took control of their ship and drowned their captors and committed mass suicide rather than submit to being enslaved in the American South.

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2020-06-26