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Isaac Samuel

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 13h
“rather than signaling deindustrialization, foreign competition often stimulated local innovation”
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In Saharan rock paintings, many of the depictions of vehicles show two-wheeled chariots pulled by two galloping horses and carrying a single charioteer www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-wheel-...
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The Wheel in the Ancient Sahara: Africa’s Forgotten Chariots
The Sahara is one of the most dynamic zones of interaction in human history.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 21h
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
Precolonial African Industry and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1800 by John Thornton
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Benin's cloth exports to Dutch traders, 1505-1816 www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Graphs like these are best illustration of the consequences of trade imbalances and why politicians of all nations and in all eras should fear the impact of permanent trade deficit on the well-being of their countries more than armies. The current British government should take note.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a ‘Palaver’ (public meeting) not far from Badagry (Nigeria), by William Allen, ca. 1841 www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yarn imports into West Africa. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nupe silk and cotton textiles www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indigo resist-dyed adire textiles www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yoruba textiles 19th-20th century www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Southern Nigeria in the 18th century.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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 www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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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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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“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.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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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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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“the natives of the interior would not look at our cottons, preferring their own stronger goods” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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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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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900) From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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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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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the next article (on *Monday) is about the Textile industry of pre-colonial south-western Nigeria since the 16th century *I won't be available this Sunday
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Joseph King @king-rome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From last year, but a great one!!
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guitar and Wooden Thumb Piano of the Wayao Tribe, Southern Africa, Illustration, 1885 #archivesxt #ethnographxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Barge from Upper Congo, Africa, Illustration, 1885 #archivesxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cyclone in Mayotte, Illustration from 'Le Petit Journal: Supplement illustre', 1898 #ethnographxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Zanzibar on the morning after the hurricane of 15 April 1872 #archivesxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kongo Mosque, Diani, Kenya #historyxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Easter Celebrations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia c. 1899 by Louis-Rémy Sabattier #ethnographxt
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dpbrunberg.bsky.social @dpbrunberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I read a piece (quite a few years ago) by Ron Eglash on this topic. Thanks for revisiting it. It’s a fascinating topic.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Houses in Fumban, Cameroon c. 1902-1915 -Koloniales Bildarchiv, Frankfurt #archivesxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An Efik brass charger embossed with a central robed female figure and two servants holding a fan and an umbrella (brass) 19th century, Calabar, Nigeria -Private collection #randomxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Barma Mata, Sultan of Zinder c. 1927 Lithograph by Alexander Yakovlev #ethnographxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
View of Meroe, 1842-1845, engraving by Karl Richard Lepsius #archivesxt
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Warriors of the Logone region, Chad. Illustration from L'Album du Petit Voyageur Illustre (Edouard Cornely & Cie, Paris, c1900). #ethnographxt
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Soma @somasacademy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Saw this painting in person recently at a special exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, it was super cool recognizing it from the scans I'd seen online
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
there were attempts at domesticating antelopes and wild sheep at Tassili n’ Ajjer 7,000 years ago, but those were abandoned after the introduction of cattle As far back as the "Green Sahara" period, Africans knew which animals could not be domesticated www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Travels of a 17th century Abolitionist from Angola to the Vatican
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Yarri Kamara @yarrikamara.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congolese writer Wilfried N'sonde wrote a novel about this episode of history. Not yet translated into English. www.babelio.com/livres/NSond...
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La Hulotte @nicodm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Deux siècles avant l'abolition de l'esclavage, un prince africain du royaume de Ndongo (Angola moderne) engageait des mesures juridiques internationales contre l'Espagne, le Portugal et l'Italie, les accusant de crimes contre l'humanité www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa ...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Queens and Kings of the Congados, Brazil by Carlos Julião 1775-1790 www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Portrait of King Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba, c. 1641
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two centuries before the formal abolition of Slavery, an African prince from the kingdom of Ndongo (modern Angola) spearheaded an international legal case against Spain, Portugal, and Italy, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...
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The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World.
Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some of which were global, while others were local and emerged from pre-existing Anti-slavery laws in pre-colonial Africa that sought ...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Union soldier Nicholas Said c. 1836–1882, comparing his experience as a free man in the US (and other "enlightened Christian countries") to when he was a slave in Tripoli: “There seems to have been no prejudice among the Turks on account of complexion” www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
a few more chariot images from the Acacus region, S.W. Libya -british museum #randomxt
https://africanrockart.britishmuseum.org/thematic/chariots-in-the-sahara/
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
why Acemoglu and Robinson were wrong about the Wheel in Africa
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Kings and knights considered all kinds of carriages as effeminate machines, and scorned to be seen within them . . . As late as the reign of Francis I [r. 1515–1547], there were only three coaches in Paris.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/acemoglu-i...
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the best and most accessible resources on African history. Great work over the last 5 years
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Joseph King @king-rome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s amazing to me that you find the time for the both the research and writing. Looking forward to the next 1,000.
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
Congrats! 🎉
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This newsletter began 5 years ago 5 years 263 Articles 19,500 Subscribers 2.14 million Views Probably 1,000 more articles on African History to go We're just getting started ⤵️ www.africanhistoryextra.com/archive
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La Hulotte @nicodm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Invention et utilisation de la roue. Les chars et chariots tractés par des chevaux existaient en zone saharienne. Mais ils ont été suplantés par les chameaux qui pouvaient transporter plus de 200 kg, étaient 1/3 moins cher que les chevaux et pouvaient être utilisés dans des terrains difficiles.
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☭ Tula samovar enthusiast 🇷🇺🪆🐻☢️🚎🌲🌲🌲🥶❄️🌨️ @cccp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
im the one who's honored! thank you for sharing your findings! it's such important work!! i really cant thank you enough. Youre a hero. no hyperbole 🫡🫡
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☭ Tula samovar enthusiast 🇷🇺🪆🐻☢️🚎🌲🌲🌲🥶❄️🌨️ @cccp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Earlier today, Isaac Samuel came through with another beautifully-written piece. This author illuminates aspects of history which have always fascinated me. The story of Africa is INSEPARABLE from the story of "Western" civilization. Im subscribing to him right now. And you should too.
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Dr. Vespeto, researcher in Atlantis 🇧🇷💌🕴️🌻 @violetters-zye2.com.br · 21/09/2026
Cute little terracotta camel 💜
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