Indigenous African architecture
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Kenny West
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Dope ass thread. Africa really doesn't get the credit it deserves considering the age of some of this stuff.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Igbo architecture - South Eastern Nigeria
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ReadOneBookAWeek
Smoking on a Cac Pack
this thread was necessary. great post
LadySimone
Banned
Big up to the churches in East Africa.
“Kanó, from Mount Dalá/ Febr 10th 1851”
“Timbúktu from the Terrace of the Traveller’s House”-1850's
“View of the City of Timbuctoo”[This is the first view of Timbuktu drawn by a European visitor.]
'From the tower I had an extensive view over an immense plain of white sand, on which nothing grows except a few stunted shrubs, the mimosa ferruginea, and where the uniformity of the picture is only here and there broken by some scattered hills or banks of sand. I could not help contemplating with astonishment the extraordinary city before me, created solely by the wants of commerce, and destitute of every resource except what its accidental position as a place of exchange affords.'- René Caillié(1799-1838), Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, and Across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828, Vol. 2, p. 71. London, 1830.
The Court at Kanem-Bornu, ca. 1700
“Timbúktu from the Terrace of the Traveller’s House”-1850's
“View of the City of Timbuctoo”[This is the first view of Timbuktu drawn by a European visitor.]
'From the tower I had an extensive view over an immense plain of white sand, on which nothing grows except a few stunted shrubs, the mimosa ferruginea, and where the uniformity of the picture is only here and there broken by some scattered hills or banks of sand. I could not help contemplating with astonishment the extraordinary city before me, created solely by the wants of commerce, and destitute of every resource except what its accidental position as a place of exchange affords.'- René Caillié(1799-1838), Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, and Across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828, Vol. 2, p. 71. London, 1830.
The Court at Kanem-Bornu, ca. 1700
"Dahomey (modern Benin)- The ruins of royal apartments at the King's Palace destroyed by cannonballs at Abomey."
Old palace of Oyo with Royal Gables (Kobi)
Loango...Which was a city in the Kongo Kingdom.
The capital of the Kingdom of Kongo
The Eredo walls
Old palace of Oyo with Royal Gables (Kobi)
Loango...Which was a city in the Kongo Kingdom.
The capital of the Kingdom of Kongo
The Eredo walls
Great Zimbabwe...Best photos I've seen of it so far.
The "Hill Complex" area of Great Zimbabwe:
View from the Hill Complex:
More of the 'Great Zimbabwe'
"Great Enclosure" entrance (one of them)
A passage in the great enclosure
The "Hill Complex" area of Great Zimbabwe:
View from the Hill Complex:
More of the 'Great Zimbabwe'
"Great Enclosure" entrance (one of them)
A passage in the great enclosure
