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1000 Years Around Lake Chad...
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John Lavers on the last days of the Sayfawa ("Kanem and Borno Under Three Dynasties")
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Peruvian Manuel de Vidaurre apparently "explicitly pointed to the Haitian war of independence against France as a model of anticolonial resistance for the rest of the Americas" in the words of Peter David Morgan
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Francisco de Paula Santander and Haiti, 1824–5: Non-solidarity, neocolonialism, and the Haitian Revolution in the origins of Latin American international law
Abstract This paper contests the neglect of the non-solidarity of the new Latin American republics as a causal factor in the international isolation of Haiti during the early nineteenth century, and t...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ramblign thoughts on the Chima and the Peasantry in Borno
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Chima and the Peasantry
A Kanuri village in Palmer's Bornu Sahara and Sudan . Although we have still not been able to procure a copy of Hauwa Mahdi's MA Thesis, we ...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Rambling, speculative thoughts on Guahaba in northwestern Haiti
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Cacicazgo of Guahaba
Aubourg's map showing the placement of a village in Guahaba at the site of Lacorne. Although often overlooked in colonial accounts, Guahaba ...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reading Hauwa Mahdi on the political economy of 18th century Borno and noticing her harsh words on Muhammad Nur Alkali's analysis of Borno under the Sayfawa
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Ranting about Anacaona's Gift, a new study of indigenous Caribbean textiles and weaving
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Anacaona's Gift
Anacaona's Gift: Cotton and the woven arts of the 11th to 17th century Caribbean  by Joanna Ostapkowicz is a must-read for anyone interested...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Is Silvio Torres-Saillant of the DR related to the Saillants who served in Henri Christophe's kingdom? Wouldn't be the only case of Haitians in Christophe's government who went East during the Boyer years...
(Cheesman, Armorial of Haiti)
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Map of Bagirmi and the larger region by John Lavers ("An Introduction to the History of Bagirmi")
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Genealogy of Mbangs of Bagirmi by John Lavers (from "An Introduction to the History of Bagirmi c. 1500-1800")
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Speculating on Kanem and Darfur in the 1200s...very speculative
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Kanem's 13th Century Eastward Expansion
A map of Kanem at its apogee based on a problematic map by Waziri. One topic in the annals of medieval Kanem that remains poorly understoo...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
23andme new African genetic groups update...
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM