Cuba Hill Ranch

14/03/2025

16/01/2025

Many old West African families have safeguarded private libraries for centuries, preserving a rich tradition of learning and scholarship. In Mauritania, the cities of Chinguetti and Oudane collectively house 3,450 handwritten medieval books. Walata, another ancient city, is believed to hold 6,000 more manuscripts, with some dating back to the 8th century. These collections reflect the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the region, covering topics like law, astronomy, science, and religion.

In Niger, approximately 11,000 books survive in private collections, further demonstrating the scholarly legacy of West Africa. The most renowned collection is in Timbuktu, Mali, which once served as a global center of learning during the Mali and Songhai empires. Today, an estimated 700,000 manuscripts are preserved there, spanning subjects such as history, medicine, and philosophy.

These manuscripts highlight the scholarly achievements of medieval West Africa, challenging the narrative of a purely oral tradition and emphasizing the region’s role in global intellectual history. Their preservation is a testament to the dedication of families and communities who have safeguarded this knowledge for generations.

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15/01/2025

Descendants communities of quilombola, or Africans who escaped slavery in Brazil starting in the 16th century, have worked with archaeologists to uncover two quilombola camps on Tinharé Island in the northeastern state of Bahia.

archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2025/digs-discoveries/island-of-freedom/

(Courtesy Fabio Guaraldo Almeida)

26/11/2024

07/05/2024

🔥TERM CARD - Easter 2024🔥

All sessions will run hybrid at Seminar Room 1, , & on , Wednesdays 2-3pm BST (unless otherwise noted).

Visit https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-histories-marronage-chom-workshop or email [email protected].

18/02/2024

We were told we would see America come and go. In a sense, America dies from the inside out, because they have forgotten the instructions to live on Mother Earth. This is the Hopi creed, it is our creed, that if you are not spiritually connected to the Earth, and you don't understand the spiritual reality of life on Earth, chances are you are not going to make it.
Everything is spiritual, everything has one
Spirit.
We are here on Earth only a few winters, then we go to the spirit world. The spirit world is more real than most of us realize.
The spirit world is everything. Most of our body is water. To stay healthy you need to drink pure water. Water is sacred, air is sacred. Our DNA is made from the same DNA as the tree, the tree breathes what we breathe out, we need what the tree expires. So we have a common fate with the tree. We are all of the Earth, and when the Earth and its water and atmosphere are corrupted, then the Earth will create her reaction. The Mother reacts.
In the Hopi prophecy it says that storms and floods will get bigger.
For me it is not negative to know that there will be big changes. It's not negative, it's evolution. When you look at it as an Evolution, you know it's time, nothing stays the same. You should learn to plant something. This is the first connection. You should look at all things as Spirit, realize that we are family. It never ends. Everything is life and there is no end to life.
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- Floyd " Red Crow " Westerman, musician, actor and activist native of South Dakota.