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- An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician's Handbook http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2016/05/an-18th-century-north-african-travelling-physicians-handbook.html 4 comments
- How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/food-water-africa-land-grab 12 comments worldnews
- Rich countries faced by a global food shortage are driving a 21st-century African land grab. They now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/food-water-africa-land-grab 5 comments business
- "A study of several 17th-century smoking pipes, including a number found in the garden of Shakespeare's home in England, has revealed traces of cannabis, according to South African scientists." http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0301_shakespeare.html 146 comments reddit.com
- Ivory from a 16th century shipwreck reveals new details about African elephants https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ivory-shipwreck-african-elephants-tusk-dna-bom-jesus 5 comments science
- Ivory from a 16th century shipwreck reveals new details about African elephants https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ivory-shipwreck-african-elephants-tusk-dna-bom-jesus/amp#click=https://t.co/fpkgkfcp5g 4 comments science
- A major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53527405 3 comments science
- Rising CO2 levels destroying African savannah, scientists warn | They estimate the rate of loss for savannah plant communities over the next century will likely be the highest it has been for over 15,000 years https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/africa-savannah-plants-co2-climate-change-greenhouse-gas-a8804646.html 5 comments worldnews
- Rising CO2 levels destroying African savannah, scientists warn - They estimate the rate of loss for savannah plant communities over the next century will likely be the highest it has been for over 15,000 years. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/africa-savannah-plants-co2-climate-change-greenhouse-gas-a8804646.html 42 comments worldnews
- Rare African black leopard photographed for first time in nearly a century https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/rare-african-black-leopard-photographed-for-first-time-in-nearly-a-century-1.3793005 5 comments worldnews
- Why was Portugal so much more invested in maintaining control of their African colonies than other European countries during the second half of the 20th century? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/9vf2yv/why_was_portugal_so_much_more_invested_in/ 12 comments history
- Looking for resources to learn more about the African colonial wars in the 19th and early 20th century. https://youtu.be/t35RRj82acs 7 comments history
- Half the world's population will be African by the end of the century, and the United States is not prepared https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/06/09/the-future-is-african-and-the-united-states-is-not-prepared/ 68 comments worldnews
- The African Enlightenment | The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave https://aeon.co/essays/yacob-and-amo-africas-precursors-to-locke-hume-and-kant 474 comments philosophy
- France gives citizenship and full pensions to African soldiers who fought its 20-century wars https://qz.com/960851/france-gives-citizenship-and-full-pensions-to-african-soldiers-who-fought-its-20-century-wars/ 5 comments europe
- If North African countries remained under uninterrupted European/Roman rule up until the 20th century, would we consider them "European" countries. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Algeria_women%27s_national_volleyball_team_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%287913969288%29.jpg 75 comments europe
- The African, Yasuke - From Slave to Samurai warrior (16th century Japan) http://enterjapan.me/yasuke/ 10 comments history
- The 18th Century Swahili Poet Every Lover of African Poetry Should Know and Read http://brittlepaper.com/2015/02/18th-century-swahili-poet/ 3 comments books
- Population boom: 40% of all humans will be African by end of century http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-to-experience-population-boom/article19998373/ 36 comments worldevents
- MEDIEVAL AFRICAN FOUND BURIED IN ENGLAND------ How did this man manage to journey from Tunisia to Ipswich, England, during the 13th century? http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/medieval-african-england.html 90 comments history
- Did you know that in the 19th century women circus performers in Europe were the highest paid . One African acrobat Miss La La was so celebrated that the artist Degas sketched her 20 times. https://archive.voice-online.co.uk/article/untold-story-europe%E2%80%99s-first-black-female-circus-star 78 comments history
- "When it comes to 'genocide', most people think of native North Americans in the 16th Century, African slaves in the 19th Century, Jews in the 20th Century, and the indigenous Australians who are still fighting today," Chinese foreign minister said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56311759 149 comments worldnews
- Al Ahly vs Zamalek : The Controversy surrounding the "African Club of the 21st Century" title ! https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ktqloi/al_ahly_vs_zamalek_the_controversy_surrounding/ 7 comments soccer
- Was there someone back in the 18th century that pretended to buy Africans as "slaves" but actually helped them escape, have a nice home or an education? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/8okfy4/was_there_someone_back_in_the_18th_century_that/ 12 comments history
- A series of travel books written for African Americans travelling in the segregated US of the last century is being republished https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/19/travel-guides-to-segregated-us-for-black-americans-reissued 1576 comments books
- African elephants "could fall by 1/5" due to poaching - There were 100 million at turn of 20th century. That has fallen to 1/2 million. 22,000 were killed in 2012. Rate of killing compared to natural population growth means the largest animal on earth could soon become extinct. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/02/african-elephant-numbers-fall-poaching 259 comments worldnews
- Scientists have revealed the secrets of a spectacular African fruit that is more intensely coloured than any previously known biological substance. The fruit's metallic blue hue is produced not by a pigment, but by specialized structures in its cells so century-old specimens still glitter. http://www.nature.com/news/cell-structure-gives-african-fruit-its-iridescent-hue-1.11379 25 comments science
- A 19th century British naval officer's account of hunting slave traders along the West African coast http://newhistories.group.shef.ac.uk/wordpress/wordpress/?p=2158 8 comments history
- African famine could be 'scandal of the century': The world has "failed to ensure food security", France's agriculture minister has said at the UN food agency crisis talks on East Africa's drought. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14271539 7 comments worldnews
- Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls for African century http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10750077 3 comments worldnews
- African colonization helped spread HIV and AIDS more than a century ago http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=african-colonization-helped-spread-2008-10-01 2 comments science
- Temba Bavuma becomes first black African to score a century of runs in an international cricket Test match http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35235904 8 comments sports
- TIL that Africans have been living in India since the early 13th century C.E. as slaves, soldiers, sailors, traders, bureaucrats, clerics, bodyguards and concubines. http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/students/curriculum/m15/activity2.php 32 comments india
- First photographs of rare African black leopard in more than a century - The animal – whose coat is sooty black as a result of melanism, the opposite of albinism – is extremely rare. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/13/first-photograph-of-rare-african-black-leopard-captured-in-more-than-a-century 5 comments worldnews
- One year ago today, Al Ahly beat rivals Zamalek in the Final Of the Century with a 85th minute winner, the African Final of the Century. https://youtu.be/iXH5Xm8skP8 5 comments soccer
- "Russia Has Older Democracy Than U.S. and First Black General Proves It": The head of Russia's Central Elections Commission has claimed that Russia has an older democracy than the U.S. because Russia appointed its first black general two centuries before the first African-American made that rank. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-has-older-democracy-than-us-and-first-black-general-proves-it--elections-chief/530309.html 15 comments europe
- American Schools Are More Segregated Now Than They Were In 1968, And The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care: "Opponents of integration have been winning for a very long time...The percentage of African American students attending majority white schools is now at its lowest point in almost half-a-century." http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/13/3690012/american-schools-are-more-segregated-now-then-they-were-in-1968-and-the-supreme-court-doesnt-care/ 35 comments politics
- The evolving image of the European in African art from antiquity until the 19th century: from Roman captives in Kush, to Portuguese traders in Benin, to Belgian colonialists in Congo. https://isaacsamuel.substack.com/p/the-evolving-image-of-the-european-0de?s=w 2 comments history
- Uniparental lineage of genome of 11th century man buried in Islamic era near Valencia,Spain indicate North African ancestry,but at autosomal level he displays a mosaic of N-African and European-like ancestries,distinct from present day population.This may point to brutality of expulsion of Moriscos https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95996-3 2 comments science
- "After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word 'Negro' to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels 'black' or 'African-American'." http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/us-stopping-use-of-term-negro-for-census-surveys-4306381.php 4 comments politics
