@MadMax_887
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I made a graphic representing possible paleolithic African populations, and relationships with modern populations. This is my first time making a phylogenetic graphic and much of it is inference, so please bear with me. In this thread, I'll break it down; sources at the end.
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Unpopular opinion: I think *PART* of the reason for this is that many Niger-Congo ethnic groups somewhat remember that part of their ancestry genuinely originated in the Nile area, in the paleolithic. Nothing to do with Egyptian civilization, but references more ancient origins
Ibrahim 🇻🇨@bramsmdnOct 18
Why do many ethnic groups in Africa have oral traditions stating that their ancestors came from Egypt ? 😭
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Now, is some of it clinging to Egypt from colonial propaganda? For sure. But, I think those migration stories are partially genuine memory and oral history. Especially since archaeology shows it to be true. West Africans partially descend from hunter-gatherers in Northeast Africa
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@KailSovlSep 26
Beautiful people from Jim Hill Homecoming 26’ Battlefield park Jackson Mississippi Photographed by Justin Hardiman
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Extracts@MelaninExtractsSep 16
Man and child from the Baka ethnic group, in Cameroon 🇨🇲 Source : AirPano
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Extracts@MelaninExtractsSep 12
before some of you guys say '' SKIN BLEACHED''. xitter.cf/plantbasedkadaf/status…
🇨🇴🇪🇨Kadafi Gonzalez , Emir of Bendel State@plantbasedkadaf11 Jul 2024
Replying to @plantbasedkadaf
Skin tone variation amongst students of a university in South Eastern Nigeria.
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Ozi Ikoro@OziIkoroSep 13
Young Yoruba men, including one in the centre wearing the irun didi (cornrows) hairstyle, photographed in Ihumbe, present-day Ogun State, Nigeria, in 1912 by Charles Partridge.
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Extracts@MelaninExtractsMar 15
Interestingly , I've tend to notice that a good portion of them have a distinguishable reddish to medium brown skin color ,whilst also having somewhat of light brown tints on their hair. Seems like their hair is also less tighter than other Central/West Afs. 🇨🇲🇨🇩🇨🇬🇬🇦
Extracts@MelaninExtractsMar 15
Baka/Bayaka people of Cameroon , Gabon and both Congos. Primarily located in the rainforests of the Central African region. 🇨🇲🇬🇦🇨🇬🇨🇩
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Extracts@MelaninExtractsSep 15
Bagyeli people of Cameroon 🇨🇲
Extracts@MelaninExtractsMar 15
Interestingly , I've tend to notice that a good portion of them have a distinguishable reddish to medium brown skin color ,whilst also having somewhat of light brown tints on their hair. Seems like their hair is also less tighter than other Central/West Afs. 🇨🇲🇨🇩🇨🇬🇬🇦
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Extracts@MelaninExtractsSep 15
More on the Bagyeli ( also known as Gyele/Bajele) people of Cameroon 🇨🇲
Extracts@MelaninExtractsSep 15
Bagyeli people of Cameroon 🇨🇲
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ຸ@jpnmightbegodSep 12
Afro futurism
ຸ@jpnmightbegodAug 30
Aesthetics & styles:
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Ozi Ikoro@OziIkoroApr 8
A woman of Öka (Awka) photographed by British colonial government anthropologist Northcote Thomas, 1910-1911. Photo credit: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.
Ozi Ikoro@OziIkoroMar 18
Hairstyle An igbo woman from Arochukwu, early 20th century, a postcard via the US Library of Congress.
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Ozi Ikoro@OziIkoroApr 11
Titled woman from Nsukka A titled woman wearing ivory leglets, bracelets, and locally woven cloth. Nsuka area. Photographed by: K.C. Murray. Date :1940.
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Ozi Ikoro@OziIkoroJun 20
Ekoi man taken by P. Amaury Talbot, early 1900s.
Ozi Ikoro@OziIkoroJun 19
An Igbo man photographed at Itu, Cross River State, Nigeria. He is dressed in a patterned waist wrapper and wears personal adornments. Brick archways are visible in the background. Photograph by Charles Partridge, taken on 10 May 1907.
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Picture of my late maternal grandfather & some of his brothers (my uncles). Wish I knew what year this was. They were all from Mound Bayou, Mississippi which is/was a Black town founded in 1887 by former slaves. Booker T Washington praised the town for being a self reliant & autonomous all Black community.
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ຸ@jpnmightbegodSep 6
African futurism
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This is easily two Yoruba men
َ@Elbich0o0o0Aug 31
Replying to @47Tolkien
these are not the same people
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Saw a post that around 6k Malagasy were sent to the US during the Middle Passage. It’s wild how tens of millions of us have that particular ancestry according to genetic studies and personal dna testing company results. This one way to remember how so many of us are interrelated.
Typical African
@Joe__BasseyMar 31
Pure African beauty from the island of Madagascar 🇲🇬
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4. The Bantus actively mixed and assimilated with the natives of some of the places they moved into (if there were people living there in the first place) 5. The bantu expansion unironically exploded the population of some of the people they encountered because of agriculture.
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The late chief Ekhator Eduwuirofo, the first hereditary Obasogie of Benin Kingdom.
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