Mogadishu in 1517:
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) March 9, 2025
“a very great Moorish town called Magadoxo; it has a king over it; the place has much trade many ships come hither from the great kingdom of Cambaya.
The men are for the most part brown and black, but a few are fair.”https://t.co/DGXG1SlKhC pic.twitter.com/iRYW7iFKGZ
2/3
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) August 30, 2023
Wolof woman, St. Louis, Senegal
ca. 1944-1947
-archives nationales d'outre mer#ethnographxt pic.twitter.com/DlM8w8Nwnk
even the Mapungubwe collection may have been a small remnant of a much larger gold hoard
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) August 27, 2024
"The complete absence of any mention of gold from the various archival sources makes one wonder whether the unspoken retrieval of gold items was a primary motivation behind the visits" pic.twitter.com/Kcuz7ch55G
the gold collection of Mapungubwe
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) August 25, 2024
Gold fingerprinting analysis has shown that the ore used in this collection was obtained from the same mine as that exploited two centuries later by the kingdom of Thulamela, more than 200km east of Mapungubwehttps://t.co/hbQhe7TZzh pic.twitter.com/fwV0AfzwDb
