History of science and technology in Africa

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لأفريقيا أقدم سجل في العالم من الإنجاز التكنولوجي البشري: تم العثور على أقدم أدوات الحجر في العالم في شرق أفريقيا، وقد تم العثور على أدلة في وقت لاحق لإنتاج الأدوات من قبل أسلافنا هومينين في جميع أنحاء أفريقيا جنوب الصحراء الكبرى. غير أن تاريخ العلم والتكنولوجيا في أفريقيا منذ ذلك الحين لم يحظ إلا بقدر قليل نسبيا من الاهتمام بالمقارنة مع مناطق أخرى من العالم، على الرغم من التطورات الأفريقية الملحوظة في الرياضيات، والتعدين، والهندسة المعمارية، وغيرها من المجالات. rdf:langString

Africa has the world's oldest record of human technological achievement: the oldest stone tools in the world have been found in eastern Africa, and later evidence for tool production by our hominin ancestors has been found across West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. The history of science and technology in Africa since then has, however, received relatively little attention compared to other regions of the world, despite notable African developments in mathematics, metallurgy, architecture, and other fields. rdf:langString

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rdf:langString History of science and technology in Africa

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rdf:langString Thomas Phillips

rdf:langString Shane Doyle

rdf:langString William Allan

rdf:langString C. Cagnolo

rdf:langString Christian P. Scherrer

rdf:langString James T. Bent

rdf:langString Marguerite Poland

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rdf:langString Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures

rdf:langString The sacred city of the Ethiopians, being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893

rdf:langString A Collection of Voyages and Travels

rdf:langString The Akikuyu, Their Customs, Traditions and Folklore

rdf:langString The Abundant Herds

rdf:langString The African Husbandman

rdf:langString Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence, and Regional War

rdf:langString The Language of Flowers: Knowledge, Power and Ecology in Precolonial

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rdf:langString It is especially interesting that the form of writing that developed in Bunyoro was based on a floral code, as the absence of both writing and flowers in African culture have been used by Jack Goody as evidence of African culture's separateness from that of "Eurasia." Goody has written that African peoples generally did not make significant use of flowers in worship, gift-giving or decoration. He does "not know of any indigenous use of odours," nor of plants playing a role in stories or myths. This is thought to be because of Africa's “simple" agriculture, “non-complex" societies and absence of a "culture of luxury." This description of African life does not fit well with what we know of precolonial Bunyoro, a large, relatively ancient, and extremely hierarchical kingdom, and the analysis of the role of flowers was quite inaccurate.

rdf:langString The “beautiful irrigated fields”, the steep terraced slopes of the thousand hills, where every patch of ground is put to use, the “well-fed cattle with colossal horns” were “wonderful discoveries” to the Europeans. But even greater surprises awaited them.

rdf:langString Students of all ages and all ethnic backgrounds, as well as their instructors, are fascinated by the Bushoong and Chokwe networks and are impressed by the failure of the European ethnologist Emil Torday to solve the problem set to him by Bushoong children, a problem that presents a challenge to American students and their teachers as well, but was solved easily by African children.

rdf:langString The negroes are so innocent to the smallpox, that few ships that carry them escape without it, and sometimes it makes vast havoc and a destruction among them; but though we had 100 at a time sick of it, and that it went through the ship, yet we lost not above a dozen by it. All the assistance we gave the diseased was only as much water as they desired to drink, and some palm oil to anoint their sores, and they would generally recover without any other help but what kind nature gave them.

rdf:langString All the surrounding hills have been terraced for cultivation, and present much the same appearance as the hills in Greece and Asia Minor, which have been neglected for centuries; but nowhere in Greece or Asia Minor have I ever seen such an enormous extent of terraced mountains as in this Abyssinian valley. Hundreds and thousands of acres must here have been under the most careful cultivation, right up almost to the tops of the mountains, and now nothing is left but the regular lines of the sustaining walls, and a few trees dotted about here and there. This valley is most completely shut in, quite such an one as one can imagine Rasselas to have lived in

rdf:langString Recently an old Kikuyu took to a public meeting a wooden stick on which he was able to read the amount of tax paid by him to government on each year since it began being collected.

rdf:langString Before 1850, there were an estimated four to five million Nguni cattle in what is now KwaZulu-Natal. Indeed it could have been said that, so immense was the number of cattle, idaka liye lahlaba ezulwini , but war, disease, political unrest and the introduction by whites of their own cattle, led to a decline in numbers so that a decade ago only about 100,000 pure Ngunis remained. In 1879, at the close of the Anglo-Zulu War, in which the power of the Zulu Kingdom was broken, Sir Garnet Wolseley ensured the end of the Zulu royal herds by slaughtering and confiscating what remained.

rdf:langString They mostly excel in their husbandry, the skill with which they irrigate their terraced hillsides with tiny runnels of eater shows considerable advancement in agriculture. Their time is constantly spent in tilling the soil, manuring it with ashes, raking it and hoeing it with wooden hoes

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rdf:langString لأفريقيا أقدم سجل في العالم من الإنجاز التكنولوجي البشري: تم العثور على أقدم أدوات الحجر في العالم في شرق أفريقيا، وقد تم العثور على أدلة في وقت لاحق لإنتاج الأدوات من قبل أسلافنا هومينين في جميع أنحاء أفريقيا جنوب الصحراء الكبرى. غير أن تاريخ العلم والتكنولوجيا في أفريقيا منذ ذلك الحين لم يحظ إلا بقدر قليل نسبيا من الاهتمام بالمقارنة مع مناطق أخرى من العالم، على الرغم من التطورات الأفريقية الملحوظة في الرياضيات، والتعدين، والهندسة المعمارية، وغيرها من المجالات.

rdf:langString Africa has the world's oldest record of human technological achievement: the oldest stone tools in the world have been found in eastern Africa, and later evidence for tool production by our hominin ancestors has been found across West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. The history of science and technology in Africa since then has, however, received relatively little attention compared to other regions of the world, despite notable African developments in mathematics, metallurgy, architecture, and other fields.

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