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History

The Forgotten Republics: Trading Cities That Pre-Dated the Maps

From Great Zimbabwe to Kilwa Kisiwani, a network of city-states ran the Indian Ocean centuries before European contact. We map the alliances, currencies, and the quiet erasure that followed.

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Oral History

"My Grandmother's Name Was a Forest": Field Notes from Madagascar

Translators in Antananarivo share what is lost — and what is preserved — when Malagasy proverbs, songs, and place-names cross into French. A meditation on the politics of translation.

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Tradition

What the Ashanti Stool Teaches About Modern Governance

The okua — a carved wooden seat — is more than regalia. It is constitution, archive, and warning, all in one object. Political theorist Dr. Akua Mensah reads the stool as a founding document.

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Memory

After the Archives Burned: A Letter from Cape Town

The 2021 fire at the University of Cape Town took irreplaceable manuscripts from the Bleek and Lloyd collection. Curator Lindiwe Maseko reflects on what remains — and the responsibility of the digital copy.

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Contemporary

Lagos at 60: The City That Refuses a Single Story

Six decades after independence, Nigeria's megacity hosts twenty million dreams at once. Photographer Seun Ogunyemi took to the streets during independence week to ask: what does the future sound like here?

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Cosmology

Reading the Sky: Dogon Astronomy and the Politics of Knowledge

For generations, the Dogon people of Mali have mapped the Sirius system with remarkable precision. An astrophysicist and a griot sit down to compare notes — and find more agreement than Western science admits.

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