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West Africa
2 articles tagged “West Africa” on Sprinkles of History.
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The Benin Bronzes: Metalwork of a West African Court
For centuries, artisans of the Kingdom of Benin cast brass and bronze plaques and heads so refined that European visitors assumed they had to be Renaissance imports.
Africa
Timbuktu: When a Desert City Was a Capital of Books
Long before it became a byword for remoteness, Timbuktu was a university town where hundreds of thousands of manuscripts on law, astronomy, and medicine were copied and traded.