African Food Processing Techniques (Richard Okagbue)[vc_row][vc_column][smartslider3 slider=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_section el_class=”home-top-section”][vc_row gap=”20″][vc_column width=”2/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1638359580856{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”In ‘africahistory.net’ we present various perspectives on African Indigenous Knowledge Systems(AIK) from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts from scholarly works on the subject and focus on several areas. We are proud to say that this site has been listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the top 50 of African websites.” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:18|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1638362787008{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ el_class=”cborder-top-right-box”][vc_column_text]
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Nominated by EBSCO for inclusion in its Academic Search Complete Research Database- one of the most prestigious, multidisciplinary collections in the academic world.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Know More[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ el_class=”default-services-area cborder” css=”.vc_custom_1638376562234{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;padding-left: 5px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1084″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section disable_element=”yes” el_class=”home-top-section”][vc_row][vc_column el_class=”faq-area faq-content”][vc_custom_heading text=”ARTIFACTS GALLERY” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23104cba” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1638430687337{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}” el_class=”faq-area faq-content”][vc_column_text][carousel_slide id=’1145′][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_tta_tour][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”A. Indigenous African Science and Technology” tab_id=”1638387807765-c3eb0b15-bc25″][vc_column_text css=””]African Food Processing Techniques (Richard Okagbue)
African Textile Techniques (Phillip Shea)
African Metallurgy (Olayemi Akinwumi)
Colonialism and Africa’s Technology (Gloria Emeagwali)
Mathematics in pre-colonial Hausaland, West Africa (Ahmad Kani)
Psychology: African Dimensions (Bruce Bynum)
Ancient Egyptian Astronomy(Theophile Obenga)
Eurocentrism and the History of Science (Gloria Emeagwali)
African Fractals-Modern Computing and Indigenous Design(Ron Eglash)
Video presentation: Courtesy Ron Eglash & www.TED.com
Geometry from Africa(Paulus Gerdes)
African Investigations into Space and Time ( Astronomy) (Charles Finch)
Ancient Egyptian Mathematics (Beatrice Lumpkin)
Constraints on Africa’s Growth:The IMF and AFRICA -Structural Adjustment (Gloria Emeagwali)
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems/Curriculum (Gloria Emeagwali)
San/Pfizer Benefit Sharing Agreement on Dietary Drug, South Africa
Adire Textiles (Duncan)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”B. African Food Processing Techniques (Richard Okagbue)” tab_id=”1638387807855-d7a951da-eced”][vc_column_text] African Rice Technologies in the Carolinas,USA
African Metallurgy in the Caribbean
African Ironmaking Culture among African American Ironworkers[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”C. AIDS/Health Related Readings” tab_id=”1638390100998-e7b9e894-cfe1″][vc_column_text]Leonard Horowitz, Emerging Viruses, AIDS And Ebola: Nature, Accident OR Intentional? Tetrahedron, Idaho, 2000. Publisher Contact:298-265-2775 (Fax) Edward Hooper/ Bill Hamilton,THE RIVER- A Journey To The Source OF HIV AND AIDS An Illuminating and scholarly text on polio vaccines, designer viruses and the AIDS Holocaust. Note that the IMF continues to insist on the removal of subsidies on health in African countries with callous disregard for the unfolding AIDS pandemic. Water privatization may be good business for International Water Limited (IWL), a subsidiary of BECHTEL but may be a death sentence for the sick and ailing.
For an illuminating insight into Bio- Terrorism in Apartheid South Africa, see:
In the Public Hearings of South Africa’s ” Truth and Reconciliation Commission” 1996-1999, some AIDS- related confessions were made by former supporters of the apartheid regime. Scholars are reflecting on the full implications of these confessions for understanding the AIDS pandemic in South Africa and the former frontline states.
On Contaminated Polio and Meningitis Vaccines, note the following: Dr Haruna Kaita of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria commented on the contaminants identified in the WHO sponsored Oral Polio Vaccines of February 2004 in the Weekly Trust, Kaduna, Nigeria.
For an interview of Dr. Tijjani Namiye, the Advisor to the Governor of Kano State, Nigeria, on this incident,see Africa Update vol. 1.4.2004 Pfizer to pay ?50m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial experiment Out of court settlement in the case that inspired ‘The Constant Gardener’ By Daniel Howden, Africa Correspondent Monday, 6 April 2009, The Independent [UK] ……….. In 1996, the company needed a human trial for what it hoped would be a pharmaceutical “blockbuster”, a broad spectrum antibiotic that could be taken in tablet form. The US-based company sent a team of its doctors into the Nigerian slum city of Kano in the midst of an appaling meningitis epidemic to perform what it calls a “humanitarian mission”. However the accusers claim it was an unlicensed medical trial on critically-ill children. A team of Pfizer doctors reached the Nigerian camp just as the outbreak, which killed at least 11,000 people, was peaking. They set themselves up within metres of a medical station run by the aid group M?decins Sans Fronti?res, which was dispensing proven treatments to ease the epidemic. From the crowd that had gathered at the Kano Infectious Diseases Hospital, 200 sick children were picked. Half were given doses of the experimental Pfizer drug called Trovan and the others were treated with a proven antibiotic from a rival company. Eleven of the children died and many more, it is alleged, later suffered serious side-effects ranging from organ failure to brain damage. But with meningitis, cholera and measles still raging and crowds still queueing at the fence of the camp, the Pfizer team packed up after two weeks and left. That would probably have been an end to the story if it weren’t for Pfizer employee, Juan Walterspiel. About 18 months after the medical trial he wrote a letter to the then chief executive of the company, William Steere, saying that the trial had “violated ethical rules”. Mr Walterspiel was fired a day later for reasons “unrelated” to the letter, insists Pfizer……… “The strategy of big companies when they are dealing with smaller opponents is to stretch the process, to overwhelm us until we are ready to accept whatever they want to offer.” Trovan never became the blockbuster that Pfizer had hoped for and it is no longer in production. The EU has banned the drug and it has been withdrawn from sale in the US……. It appears that Pfizer has finally ended the public relations nightmare with Friday’s settlement. I’m glad we remained the constant gardener and could see this come to fruition………” In November 2002, Nigerian scientist Professor Emitan Abisogun Bababunmi, Professor of Biochemistry secured a US patent for an AIDS- related drug. His drug arrests skeletal muscle degeneration and ‘slim disease’at a relatively cheap cost. (Pan African News Agency)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”D. African and African-American Scientists and Inventors” tab_id=”1638390100774-3948fe2b-cc9c”][vc_column_text] History of Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA)
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora/Ancient and Contemporary Africana Mathematicians (Williams)
Mark Dean is an African-American electrical engineer and computer scientist who holds more than 20 US patents, including three of IBM’s original nine personal computer patents. One of the technical and innovative driving forces behind the personal computer, Dean was recently inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, one of only a handful of African- Americans who have been selected for that honor.Today’s desktop computers exist in part because of Dean’s research. One of his earliest inventions was the Industry Standard Architecture ‘bus,’ a user interface that permitted devices such as the keyboard, disk drives, and printers to be connected to the motherboard. He developed a method for displaying color on monitors, helped design several PS/2 subsystems, and tested the first gigahertz CMOS microprocessor. Dean was also instrumental in developing the unique cellular structure of IBM’s signature Blue Gene supercomputer.’ Extract from ScienceDaily.com. July 1,2007.
The Inventive Spirit of African Americans (Patricia Carter Sluby)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”E. Africana Journals and Newspapers” tab_id=”1638390100591-1380cc5a-f12c”][vc_column_text] Pambazuka News
Africa Studies Quarterly (University of Florida)
Africa Update(Central Connecticut State University)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”F. African Regional Sites” tab_id=”1638390100391-7769cac6-40b7″][vc_column_text css=””] Ancient Egypt (Tour Egypt.net/village)
IOWA’s AFRICAN ART and LIFE PROJECT(Christopher Roy)
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”G General and Archival Sources Related to Africa” tab_id=”1638390100167-b4a0c9dd-9498″][vc_column_text] d.Explaining Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade(Gloria Emeagwali/West Africa Review)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”H. Africa Related Institutions” tab_id=”1638390099935-55346ee6-726f”][vc_column_text css=””] African Studies – Stanford University (Karen Fung)
African Studies Association (ASA)
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
PANAFSTRAG[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”I. Specialized Aspects of African Studies” tab_id=”1638390099719-a7574bd5-a938″][vc_column_text css=””] African Literature of French Expression
Feminism in Africa[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”J. African Cinema” tab_id=”1638390099503-7e14cafe-59f9″][vc_column_text css=””] African Women In Cinema (Ellerson)
African Film Festival (ARTMATTAN Production, New York)
Ctenter for African Women in Cinema(Beti Ellerson)
The Nigerian Film Industry(Africa Update. vol. x1.2.2004)
African Cinema:Gloria Emeagwali Interviews Souleymane Cisse (Harvard University)
Samba Gadjigo: “Ousmane Sembene: The Life of a Revolutionary Artist (California Newsreel)
African Film Festival ( New York)
TUNDE KELANI’s MAINFRAME MOVIES[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”K. Black Scholarly and Popular Sites” tab_id=”1638390097650-93f53e8b-53da”][vc_column_text css=””] Jonathan Cambry: Classical Pianist par excellence
Black Collegian
Bob Marley, THE KING
California Newsreel(African/African-American)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”L. African Universities” tab_id=”1638393690535-e8e485be-5413″][vc_column_text] University of Swaziland
Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
Dar Es Salaam University, Tanzania
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”M. Publishers/Multi Media Resources” tab_id=”1638394816794-087a0ca5-adb6″][vc_column_text] Abridged Bibliography of Africa
Abidjan Net[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”N. Africa Radio and Television Programs” tab_id=”1638924909929-94bf3431-e987″][vc_column_text] Abridged Bibliography of Africa
Abidjan Net[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”P. HORACE CAMPBELL.NET – An incisive,scholarlycommentary on current Africa- related events” tab_id=”1638394810489-8c42c34f-0102″][vc_column_text] HORACE CAMPBELL.NET – An incisive,scholarly commentary on current Africa- related events[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”O. Center for the Study and Research of AfricanWomen in Cinema (Director: Beti Ellerson)” tab_id=”1638394811345-315da99f-bf65″][vc_column_text css=””] Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema (Director: Beti Ellerson)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”Q. INDILINGA, African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems” tab_id=”1638394809042-ef79cfa5-8e93″][vc_column_text css=””] INDILINGA, African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”R. NDIGOKAFE: The Portal for African Literatures,Writers and Film” tab_id=”1638394807625-fdc7e42e-bb48″][vc_column_text] NDIGOKAFE: The Portal for African Literatures,Writers and Film[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-angle-double-right” add_icon=”true” title=”S. Abstracts from the Conference on AfricanScience and Knowledge Systems.” tab_id=”1638394806914-059cd165-e210″][vc_column_text] OCTOBER 2006, NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI, NIGERIA.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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