YouTube video by The Islamic Manuscript Association

The title of Dunama, the man who killed Kaday b. Dunama (Augustin Holl, The Diwan Revisited: Literacy, State Formation and the Rise of Kan...

A conversation with Naomi Pitamber (Clark University) about the art and architecture of the empire of Nicaea (Nikaia), the convention name of the Roman state that emerged in Asia Minor after the disas...

Gustav Nachtigal's third volume of Sahara and Sudan remains an indispensable source for reconstructing the history of Bagirmi. Based on h...

YouTube video by Thersites the Historian

Whilst reading in The Guardian about the digitized and index records of slaves in the British colonies, we decided to search for anyone ...

African Archaeological Review -

Whilst revisiting various sources on Bagirmi, we were struck by al-Tunisi's account of the staggering amount of wealth hoarded by the ki...

A Personal Compilation

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Toyin Falola

The sax star turned his back on fame to embrace free jazz. Caught on a tape machine hidden in an overcoat, newly revealed recordings show how he did it

Map of the northern half of Africa in Palmer's Bornu Sahara and Sudan . The following list is a compilation of various strange, miraculous, ...

Reading Nobili, Wright and Diakite's study and translation of the reconstituted Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar and Tarikh al-Fattash has been an enli...

Unfortunately, the 1954 pamphlet, Amina Sarauniyar Zazzau, turned out to be just a pamphlet containing a compilation of stories on Amina ...

I previously reviewed Ross Montgomery's The Murder at World's End (2025), a classically-styled, retro-Golden Age mystery, which is set agai...

Whilst randomly searching for something on Thomas Madiou, we came across what looks like a Youtube channel dedicated to the history of Hai...

André Delpuech (andre.delpuech@quaibranly.fr) Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France www.quaibranly.fr Résumé Au 18e siècle dans la colonie française de Saint-Domingue, quelques savants se sont livrés…

Akane Araki's Murder At the End of the World was one of the newer mystery novels we were excited to read. Set in the Fukuoka region right b...

Talking about the Golden Age of Final Fantasy with a friend made us nostalgic for the better world of the 1990s when we obsessively played F...

Kasashen Bauchi in Mahdi Adamu's The Hausa Factor in West African History Whilst revisiting our notes on different aspects of the history of...

Abubakar Mustapha's "The Contribution of Sayfawa Ulama to the Study of Islam C. 1086-1846 A.D." is an important but highly flawed work. Whil...

Adapting Jacques Roumain's Masterpiece to Graphic Novel

We are loving these older performances of Emmet Cohen and other musicians. Their version of the Sonny Rollins classic is quite faithful yet ...

Les lacs Tumba et Maï-Ndombe dans la cartographie européenne du 16e–18e siècle - Volume 67

Biography of a Fifteenth-Century African Christian Monarch - Volume 67

Editha Platte's Kanuri Women of Borno (Nigeria): Perspectives from the Little Kingdom of Musune is a fascinating but often flawed work on a ...

Whilst reading Editha Platte's work on Musune and women titleholders in Borno, we have been forced to revisit some of the other sources whic...

As soon as we found Alain Martin's documentary, The Forgotten Occupation , was on Tubi for streaming, we had to watch it. Unfortunately, ...

Although mostly focused on Sila during the French colonial period, Henri Berre's Sultans Dadjo du Sila (Tchad) is still of use for those ...

Kyari Tijani's Dynamics of Administrative Change in pre-colonial Borno: A Comparative Study of the Sayfawa and Kanemi Dynasties is one of ...

The Shettima Bello manuscript in John Lavers, "Biography, the ulama and an example of protest in eighteen century Borno,' in  Northwestern U...